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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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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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Cooper University Hospital board chairman George Norcross III listens in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, May 15, 2012, during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cooper Cancer Institute. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Judge sides with N.J. Gov. Murphy, dismisses Norcross’ tax credit suit

A New Jersey judge sided with Gov. Phil Murphy and dismissed the lawsuit brought by a political powerbroker challenging a task force investigating business tax credits.

7 years ago

Work on a new bridge connecting the Wilmington Riverfront to Rt. 13 is nearing completion. Gov. John Carney hopes new transportation funding to help businesses complete road projects will keep companies in Delaware. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware tries new funding formula to build better roads, attract businesses

Delaware is taking steps to speed up its response times to road construction needs of businesses that want to expand or move to the First State.

7 years ago

Flames and smoke emerge from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Friday, June 21, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Advisory group to seek public’s views on future of PES refinery

Philadelphia wants input from all stakeholders, including those with environmental expertise, neighbors who live near the refinery, and workers.

7 years ago

A train moves along the Market-Frankford Line. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law
PlanPhilly

Sources: FBI investigating SEPTA over embezzlement scheme

The FBI and SEPTA’s inspector general are investigating a multi-year embezzlement scheme that may involve a string of the transit agency’s managers.

7 years ago

Smith Playground summer camp participants, and Boys and Girls Club members take the first photos in from of the “MVP” Ora Washington statue. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘It looks like me:’ New South Philly statue meant to inspire young women and girls

Philly commissioned ‘MVP’ as part of a public art program, and it’s the city’s first statue of an individual African-American girl.

7 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf visits the newly painted library at Edward Heston School in Philadelphia to announce $4.3 million in state funding for lead paint stabilization at Philadelphia school buildings. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Pa. again pledges extra help to remove lead paint from Philly schools

In what’s becoming a summer tradition, Pennsylvania will set aside money to remove lead paint from Philly schools.

7 years ago

A prototype of a public toilet created for the City of Berlin (Paul Zinken/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Hepatitis A is spreading through poop on the streets. Philly is betting public bathrooms can stem the outbreak.

Hepatitis A is spreading through fecal matter on Philadelphia streets. As outbreak worsens, the city is installing mobile bathrooms.

7 years ago

Listen 1:40
A hearing in Clairton, Pa. to discuss a settlement for air pollution violations at US Steel's Clairton Coke Works. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Western Pa. residents, workers air their responses to U.S. Steel settlement

In June, the county health department announced the draft agreement to resolve multiple air pollution violations at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant over the past two years.

7 years ago

In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 photo, Acting supervisor Lisa Reeder, left, and supervisor Kevin Keylor of PennDOT Driver's License/Real ID Center run a system test on computers in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. (Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania to allow gender-neutral driver’s license option

Pennsylvanians who prefer not to be identified as neither male nor female will soon have a gender-neutral option for their state-issued driver's licenses.

7 years ago

In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar pauses while speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Health

U.S. to set up plan allowing prescription meds from Canada

It weakens an import ban that has stood as a symbol of the political clout of the pharmaceutical industry.

7 years ago

Amber Hikes, executive director of Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs talks about her last day in office. (KimberlyPaynter/WHYY)
Community

Philly’s LGBTQ liaison heading to the national stage with the ACLU

After two years in the Kenney administration, Amber Hikes is departing for New York, to become chief diversity officer for the American Civil Liberties Union.

7 years ago

Listen 5:00
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Arts & Entertainment

Cord cutters beware, either rescan, or lose local stations Friday

If you are using an antenna (not satellite or cable) beginning on Friday morning you need to rescan your TV by going into the setup menu and hitting search or rescan.

7 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane departs from the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Eagleville, Pa., on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.  Kane was sentenced in 2016 to 10-to-23 months for perjury, obstruction and other counts. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Kathleen Kane, once Pennsylvania attorney general, released from jail

Kathleen Kane left the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in the Philadelphia suburbs about 8:20 a.m. When asked by a reporter how she felt, Kane replied "grateful."

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, speaks during the National Urban League Conference, Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Indianapolis. (Darron Cummings/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

Joe Biden won the debate, and he wasn’t even on stage

In the wake of our national emergency, with Trump running roughshod over truth, justice, and the American way, ousting him should be the Democrats' top priority.

7 years ago

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participate in the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (Paul Sancya/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
FactCheck.org

FactChecking the second Democratic debate

The first of the back-to-back Democratic debates in July included spin from the candidates on gun violence, Republican tax cuts, climate change, manufacturing jobs and more.

7 years ago

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