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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 Turnpike
Money
PA Post

V-tolls: What they are and why you might be paying them if you travel the Pa. Turnpike

Mysterious charges appeared on E-ZPass statements of Pennsylvania Turnpike customers at least 350,000 times over the course of a year.

7 years ago

State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Courts & Law

Pa. Corrections secretary cautions against ‘knee jerk’ reaction after parolee murders

Five onetime state inmates have killed six people since May. It’s unclear if there’s a pattern.

7 years ago

A scene from 'The Burial of Kojo,' a film from Ghana that is one of the highlights of the BlackStar Film Festival. (Courtesy of BlackStar Film Festival)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s BlackStar Film Festival is looking for a new home

The annual showcase of African-American cinema launched at UPenn’s International House, but the building’s pending closure may force the fest to relocate.

7 years ago

Listen 1:40
Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Many fear Hahnemann’s story will send a message: Buying a failing hospital pays

Because the hospital real estate is owned separately from its business, some worry that its for-profit owner will sell to developers and come out ahead.

7 years ago

Listen 1:29
Gov. John Carney signing the legislation expanding access to who can adopt in Delaware (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Cohabiting couples can now adopt in Delaware

On Tuesday, Gov. John Carney signed legislation expanding who is eligible to adopt in Delaware.

7 years ago

Princeton University
Politics & Policy

New Jersey targets growing student debt with new reforms

The laws are meant as safeguards for students across New Jersey who are taking on growing financial burdens to attain advanced degrees.

7 years ago

Becky Green, 27, stands in front of the mural she helped to create in SEPTA Suburban Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

City emulates Mural Arts’ ‘same-day pay’ work model after seeing big demand

Demand for the work program run by Mural Arts is greater than the slots available. Now, Philly is doubling down on the model with $300k and another pilot.

7 years ago

posters on a barbershop window in downtown Wilmington
Courts & Law

Wilmington offering help instead of handcuffs to cut violence

The Group Violence Intervention program, used with success in other cities, offers social services to certain street-crime offenders instead of arrest.

7 years ago

Listen 1:50
Salps
Down the Shore
Community

Small, gelatinous blobs along N.J. beaches are harmless salps, not sea lice

The little gelatinous, translucent blobs now making their annual appearance at New Jersey's beaches are known as salps.

7 years ago

In this Monday, July 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, (second from left), speaks, as U.S. Reps., (from left), Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.,Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listen, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

GOP in Pa. swing county posts, then deletes, ‘Jihad Squad’ image

The mock movie poster, which was photoshopped to show one of the lawmakers holding a handgun, remained on the Northampton County GOP’s Facebook page for about 12 days.

7 years ago

The Andover estate in Thornbury Township, Delaware County, along the route of the Mariner East 2 pipeline which began operating on Dec. 29. A valve site for the pipeline is in the center of the picture. (Courtesy of Eric Friedman)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East opponent heads to appeals court to obtain PUC risk assessment

A Delaware County pipeline foe thought he’d get PUC information on the Mariner East risk, but now he’ll have to fight for it in court.

7 years ago

The Fox Theatre displays signs for the Democratic presidential debates in Detroit, Monday, July 29, 2019. The second scheduled debate will be hosted by CNN on July 30 and 31. (Paul Sancya/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

New rules for 2nd debate: No 1-word answers or show of hands

CNN pledges not to ask questions that require a show of hands by the politicians and will not ask them to confine answers to a one-word "yes" or "no."

7 years ago

Sabrina Aganier, acrobat and contortionist, high above the stage in Cirque du Soleil's “Amalŭna,” now inside Cirque's Big Top constructed in Oaks, Montgomery County. (Photo courtesy of Yanick Déry for Cirque du Soleil)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment
Shapiro on Theater

A Cirque du Soleil moment: ‘Amalŭna’ under the big top

The production is loosely based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” It’s the magic, and the tumbling, the flying, and the daredevils, that make the experience.

7 years ago

The Lawrenceville School teacher Leah Domb helps students discuss a lecture on race and biology by Penn professor Sarah Tishkoff. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Science

What is race? It isn’t skin color, as some young people are learning

It’s a tough question: Why do we look different? As one high school’s syllabus puts it, race is “both a biological myth and a social reality.”

7 years ago

Listen 5:50
A customer holds up a SEPTA Key card.
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

SEPTA Regional Rail paper Trailpasses will disappear starting in August

SEPTA is phasing out its paper monthly and weekly Trailpasses. All passes will be sold as Key card purchases starting in August. Click for details.

7 years ago

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