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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg
Politics & Policy

Environmental groups to spend $2M to flip Pa. legislature

Several Pa. environmental groups plan to pour millions into closely contested State House and Senate races to flip the General Assembly in Democrats’ favor.

6 years ago

Korkor Kamara, owner of Kamara African foods on Woodland Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia. (Miles Bryan/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘We stand very strong’: Community sharing helps African businesses in Philly stay afloat during COVID-19

Mutual aid ‘susus’ have been used by Southwest Philadelphia’s African community for years, but the financial-sharing practice has new importance during the pandemic.

6 years ago

Listen 4:41
Pumpkins
Things To Do
Community
October 8-14, 2020

The great pumpkin fest, Germantown jazz and Dracula’s back in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

This week includes both a look at history and a chance to share your own as fall moves in with a wide variety of socially distanced and virtual events.

6 years ago

Listen 5:08
Samir Hernandez is a former student, now instructor, at the Philabundance Community Kitchen. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Philabundance is training chefs in a $12-million facility built on a vacant city lot

Philabundance Community Kitchen’s $12M new facility in North Philadelphia allows the 20-year-old free culinary training program to expand beyond their creator’s dreams.

6 years ago

Officers stand at 52nd and Chestnut streets as protests continue across the city.
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

West Philly recalls police siege of rubber bullets, tear gas as City Council moves to ban tactics

“This kind of police violence and disregard for an entire residential neighborhood does not happen in a white neighborhood,” said Rev. Abbey Tennis.

6 years ago

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as Vice President Mike Pence answers a question during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
Politics & Policy

Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate

The first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election kicks off tonight in Salt Lake City, where incumbent Vice President Mike Pence meets Sen. Kamala Harris.

6 years ago

A sign warns visitors,
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Whistleblower claims Mariner East construction lacks proper safety measures related to sinkholes, subsidence

In a legal claim, a professional geologist working on the Mariner East pipeline says Sunoco prevented proper inspections.

6 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, at the Capitol in Washington.   (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)
Politics & Policy

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons talks with Supreme Court nominee Barrett ahead of hearings

Ahead of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. Senator Chris Coons asks one key question: “Why are we doing this?”

6 years ago

Police on the streets in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly residents losing respect for police but don’t want fewer officers, Pew study finds

Will a year of coronavirus, record-breaking gun violence, and civil unrest drive Philadelphians out of the city? Researchers wanted to find out.

6 years ago

A U.S. Census Bureau worker carries a briefcase while knocking on the door of a home in August in Winter Park, Fla. (John Raoux/AP)
Politics & Policy

Appellate judges let 2020 census continue through October

The ruling by the three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was a split decision for the Trump administration and a coalition of civil rights groups.

6 years ago

Community Conversations
Community

Neighbors in the crossfire: Solving the problem

Gun violence has taken over 300 lives in Philadelphia this year. Politicians and community leaders consider how to solve the problem in part 3 of our conversation.

6 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati. (AP file Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Judge dismisses suit by top Pa. senator’s campaign against Spotlight PA journalist, others

The lawsuit, which Scarnati’s campaign could attempt to refile, could pose a chilling effect on journalists’ and the public’s access to public records.

6 years ago

Diamond Franklin and her grandmother Ida Robinson
Community

Some Philly COVID-19 survivors reject the president’s downplaying of the virus

More than 210,000 Americans have died from the disease, including 1,817 in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a weekly news conference, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

Pelosi out to block Trump if disputed election ends in House

Pelosi is openly working to block President Donald Trump's advantage if, as he has suggested, he ties up the results of the Nov. 3 election.

6 years ago

People gather at the site where George Floyd was killed while in police custody not to just to protest, but to see comfort in each other.
Courts & Law

Ex-cop charged in Floyd’s death freed on $1 million bond

According to court documents, Derek Chauvin posted $1 million bond.

6 years ago

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