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Archives: Articles

Theodore playing piano with ear protection (Daisy James for WHYY)

What’s going on in the ear when your child hears a loud noise?

In the same way your voice is louder in a smaller room, sounds are amplified in a child’s smaller ear, says a Children’s Hospital audiologist.

7 years ago

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Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Force big developers to offer community benefits? Philly’s Council President wants to make it law

Right before summer recess, Council President Darrell Clarke introduced new legislation that would force some developers to offer perks to communities.

7 years ago

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

N.J. judge rules against Norcross, allows tax incentive report released

South Jersey power broker George Norcross failed to stop a task force from releasing its report that puts him and his allies in an unfavorable light.

7 years ago

The scene of a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia Sunday night, where the violence interrupted a graduation party near James Finnegan and Paschall playgrounds. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Things need to change:’ Shooting at Philly grad party one of 19 incidents in two days

After 19 shooting incidents rocked Philadelphia over the span of two days, activists and residents say police can’t curb gun violence alone.

7 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. lawmakers leave Murphy’s millionaire’s tax out of proposed budget

Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey introduced a state budget proposal Monday that doesn’t include a millionaire’s tax proposed by Gov. Murphy.

7 years ago

Delaware Bay oysters (Mary Godleski/AP Photo)
Health

Deadly bacteria on the rise in the Delaware Bay — and climate change is the likely culprit

A study from researchers at Cooper University Hospital shows an uptick in infections due to Vibrio vulnificus in the Delaware Bay.

7 years ago

Several VisionQuest employees are seen departing in small groups from the North Broad Streetlocation to join other employees and members of the community at a March 2019 meeting at the nearby Old York House. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

North Philly immigrant youth center back on hold after city appeals

Less than a week after a judge cleared the way for VisionQuest to open a center for immigrant youth in North Philly, the plans are back on hold.

7 years ago

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

US Steel’s Clairton plant pollution controls knocked out again by another fire

The second fire at US Steel's Clairton plant in six months could send SO2 levels up again.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Celebration, Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

The misogyny factor: Are we still ‘not ready’ for a female president?

Warren is running one of the most substantive campaigns in memory. Her detailed policy prescriptions are well-articulated in everyday language.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 1970 file photo, an NYPD officer grabs a youth by the hair as another officer clubs a young man during a confrontation in Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march in New York. A year earlier, the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police near a bar called the Stonewall Inn, was a vital catalyst in expanding LGBT activism nationwide and abroad. (AP Photo/File)
Community

50 years after Stonewall, LGBT rights are a work in progress

From the perspective of veteran activists, the progress has been astounding.

7 years ago

Symphony Ramson plays on the floor of the new apartment she and her dad will live in for a year. (Courtesy of Bergen Rental Communities)
Community
Broke in Philly

Property company gives Philly homeless free apartments for a year

Hope & Door is a partnership between Berger Rental and One Step Away.

7 years ago

Kara McQuillan (left) and  Mac VanTilburg of the Philadelphia Midwife Collective are trying to open Philadelphia's first free-standing birth center in Germantown. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Midwives hope Philly’s first free-standing birth center will make inclusive care more accessible

The Philadelphia Midwife Collective has launched a GoFundMe campaign to open a birth center they hope will make inclusive care more accessible.

7 years ago

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This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Health

In Pennsylvania, ‘deaths of despair’ are 50% higher than the national average

Deaths connected to suicide, drugs, and alcohol are soaring among millennials nationwide, and hitting Pennsylvania especially hard.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a campaign house party, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Windham, N.H. Candidates including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed plans to eliminate tuition at public colleges and universities, while former Vice President Joe Biden and others back plans for free community college. (Elise Amendola/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

2020 race brings free college back to the national stage

After receding from the national stage, the free college movement is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House.

7 years ago

Thousands of people viewed the more than 1,000 pieces of art at Trenton's Art All Night festival. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Community

Art All Night attendees hope successful return will bring crowds back to Trenton next year

Hundreds flocked to Trenton’s annual celebration of local art and music, though longtime attendees said turnout seemed lower after last year’s shooting.

7 years ago

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