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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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Najeemah Bailey. (Photo courtesy of Najeemah Bailey)
Health

COVID-19 brings ‘cataclysmic changes’ for people giving birth in Philadelphia area

With the pandemic, more are interested in home births, some ask for induced labor, and some are coming from New York to see about having babies here.

6 years ago

Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz bags up food that was ordered ahead of time for pick up on April 3, 2020, at Mi Casa Su Casa cafe in Reading, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘I have to keep it strong’: Pa.’s business owners, self-employed fight to weather the coronavirus shutdown

The unprecedented closure has forced owners and contractors to begin tapping deep emotional reserves, and seek out new financial options, to stay afloat.

6 years ago

Listen 4:38
The DEP wants a new environmental impact statement for both phases of the project. (Creative Commons)
Community
NJ Spotlight

N.J., DRBC call on FERC for new environmental review of PennEast

PennEast’s decision to build pipeline in two phases has reignited objections to project, rekindled concerns that have been seething for years

6 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen.(Alex Brandon, AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Trump uses coronavirus crisis to push his broader agenda

President Donald Trump is taking an old political adage to heart: Never let a crisis go to waste.

6 years ago

Bottles of hand sanitizer made at the Eight Oaks Farm Distillery sit in a display box at the distillery in New Tripoli, Pa., Monday, March 16, 2020. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)
Health
PA Post

Pa. establishes helpline for companies that can produce critical medical supplies needed for COVID-19 response

"This portal will help facilitate the connections businesses need to get critical COVID-19-related products to market or retrofit their operations."

6 years ago

Keona Berry walks down Market Street with a protective mask on her face on Friday, March 27, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Trump declares ‘major disaster’ in Del.; Feds give N.J. 500 more ventilators

New Jersey has now been granted half of the 2,500 ventilators Gov. Phil Murphy has asked of the federal government.

6 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works, near Pittsburgh. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Can air pollution make coronavirus worse? Scientists say yes — possibly in both cases and severity

A few years ago, Karen Clay and two other scientists studied the death rates for the 1918 flu pandemic in the U.S.

6 years ago

One suggestion is that small businesses be given more time to turn over the sales-tax revenue they collect for the state. (NJTV News)
Money
NJ Spotlight

Business groups, state and federal programs try to help N.J’s small businesses stay afloat

The question is whether loans, grants, tax credits and expanded unemployment benefits will be able to fully meet the growing demand for help

6 years ago

Samuel Diaz, a delivery worker for Amazon Prime, loads his vehicle with groceries from Whole Foods, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Miami, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo)
Health

Counting toilet paper squares, composting: This how we deal with pandemic-era trash

Stay-at-home rules raise lots of new questions: How to manage all those delivery bags? Dispose of sanitizing spray and paper goods, or reuse them?

6 years ago

Listen 1:20
A rooming house on Cecil B. Moore Avenue. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
Broke in Philly

Tenants fear eviction. Landlords fear bankruptcy. How can Philly balance the two?

Tenants' rights groups want to extend a moratorium on evictions, but landlords say they're feeling the financial burden too.

6 years ago

A man walks on Market Street in Wilmington, Del., wearing a protective mask Friday March 27, 2020. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Governors urge virtual gatherings for religious holidays; N.J. deaths exceed state toll from 9/11

Another 4,331 New Jersey residents tested positive for coronavirus since Friday, and an additional 200 residents have died, the governor said.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Money
Spotlight PA

Pa. banks inundated with requests for federal small business loans intended to prevent layoffs

A new federal loan program to help small businesses weather the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak got off to a shaky start Friday.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Health
Spotlight PA

Coronavirus will accelerate EMS crisis in Pa.’s small towns and rural areas, experts say

When an EMT fell ill with the coronavirus in Upper Merion Township, the department saw its ranks suddenly dwindle. In all, 22 emergency personnel, including the fire chief.

6 years ago

Signs posted along Philadelphia's Schuylkill River Trail caution users to keep six feet away from others to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Health

Pa. officials: Play alone so parks can stay open

City and state officials are weighing the risks of keeping parks open as they work to enforce social distancing rules triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

In this Thursday July 19, 2001 file photo, U.S. fugitive Ira Einhorn is taken away by French police in Champagne-Mouton, central France to be extradited to the United States. (Bob Edme/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Ex-guru Ira Einhorn dies in prison at 79, fled after slaying

A former hippie guru who lived the high life in Europe for years after murdering his ex-girlfriend in Philadelphia in the 1970s has died in prison.

6 years ago

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