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An artist's rendering shows an apartment complex planned for 2157 E. Lehigh Ave. Some in the neighborhood want the wall running alongside the development on Lehigh to be torn down.(DesignBlendz/B.S.K.M./PlanPhilly.)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Why Kensington wants to tear down a 25-foot-high Lehigh Ave. wall

Kensington residents want a developer to put $1 million towards removing a wall they say divides the neighborhood.

7 years ago

Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Hahnemann residency programs draw winning bid of $55M from local health systems

A group of six local health systems outbid Reading-based Tower Health for the residency slots that had been assigned to Hahnemann University Hospital.

7 years ago

American Federation of Government Employees officials protest the new contract which requires them to vacate their offices in EPA headquarters across the country this week. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community

Outside Philly HQ, union officials protest their ouster from EPA offices

A new contract requires American Federation of Government Employees officials to vacate their offices in EPA headquarters across the country this week.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery on August 8, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Eliminating the PES refinery’s deadliest chemical will be a 24/7 job for weeks

The Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery has started neutralizing and eliminating a highly toxic chemical still present at the site. It will take weeks.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump tosses a hat during a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa., Monday, May 20, 2019. (Matt Rourke / The Associated Press)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Poll: Half of Pa. voters plan to vote against Trump in 2020

"It's a surprise given the economy. You would expect a sitting president to be in a much better position."

7 years ago

Demonstrators and students gather during a rally against gun violence on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Monday, June 11, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Matt Slocum / AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

64 percent of Pa. respondents to a new poll support more gun restrictions

The majority of people gave the opinion before mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

7 years ago

SEPTA regional rail train. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Climate change is messing with your commute, SEPTA says after storms halt trains

Most scientists concur that climate change is causing more severe and more frequent storms –– and transit agencies like SEPTA are struggling to keep up.

7 years ago

A small fleet of GoPuff delivery vehicles, parked outside their Philadelphia headquarters. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Money

Popular late-night delivery company says labor violations didn’t matter for $39M tax break

The Philly-based late-night delivery company said it didn’t have to disclose federal labor violations when it applied for a $39 million tax break from N.J.

7 years ago

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Down the Shore
Community

Officials: Dog feces at least one source of water contamination at N.J. beach

New Jersey officials say dog waste is at least one source of ongoing water contamination at an Ocean County bay beach. 

7 years ago

Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. (Google Maps)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

‘Sesame Place Sallie’: White woman tells Black woman at Sesame Place to ‘go back where you came from’

A white woman was recorded using racist language, cursing at and raising her middle finger toward a Black woman at Sesame Place in Bucks County on Monday.

7 years ago

Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. (AP file photo)
Courts & Law

Jerry Sandusky to be resentenced next month in molestation case

Judge John Foradora filed an order Wednesday that scheduled the proceeding for Sept. 23.

7 years ago

The federal website where consumers can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is shown on a computer screen in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)
Health

Amid federal uncertainty, Delaware makes ACA pre-existing condition protection permanent

Affordable Care Act provisions protecting those with pre-existing conditions are now state law, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the ACA.

7 years ago

Sunoco's Boot Road station, site of what the company called a 'backfire on a flare stack' Aug. 5 that residents said sounded like an explosion. (Courtesy of Eric Friedman)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pipeline experts say vapor buildup likely led to explosion at Chester County pump station

For now, independent pipeline experts say the blast appears to have been caused by the relighting of a pilot light.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to local residents during a community event, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Burlington, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

Hope vs. fear, truth vs. lies: Biden frames the choice in 2020

Joe Biden's speech in Iowa yesterday was an eloquently impassioned shout-out to a benighted nation in dire need of moral ballast.

7 years ago

State Sen. Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, speaks at a rally to change Pennsylvania’s gun laws at the statehouse in Harrisburg Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (Emily Previti/PA Post)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. lawmakers, gun control advocates rally to change state firearms laws

Pennsylvania lawmakers and gun control advocates rallied at the statehouse Wednesday evening just a few days after mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

7 years ago

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