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A customer holds up a SEPTA Key card.
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

SEPTA nods to customer feedback, reduces Key Card minimum load to $1

SEPTA riders no longer need $5 to add a boost to their Key Card travel wallet.The minimum farecard load has been reduced to $1.

7 years ago

Jasmine Miller, chair of Cooperative Nursery School's diversity committee. (Paul Jablow/The Notebook)
Community
Broke in Philly

Having hard conversations with children about race and difference

Current research indicates that children as young as 2 years old show awareness of racial differences and may express racial prejudice by age 4.

7 years ago

A group of children walk with their caregivers on Vine Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

For parents who work nights and weekends, study finds child care is especially difficult

An estimated 150,000 Pa. families need child care outside the typical work day. But a new study says few providers can afford to offer that service.

7 years ago

Brandi Burgess (left) as Lina and Angelica Jackson as Jessie, two new moms who meet regularly for coffee in
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment
Shapiro on Theater

New mothers ‘Cry It Out’ in perfect Simpatico Theatre production

The play offers characters who deliver their own points of view about being moms — ideas that illuminate the subject, then let you think for yourself.

7 years ago

Monmouth Beach
Down the Shore
Community

N.J. bill would grant veterans, active duty military free access to state beaches

A bill pending in the New Jersey legislature would allow veterans and active duty military personnel free access to the state's parks, forests, and beaches. 

7 years ago

The state Capitol building in Harrisburg. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Amid calls for Leach to resign, Pa. lawmakers push anti-harassment bills

Pa. House and Senate members are pushing a slate of anti-harassment bills amid calls for Montco Democratic Sen. Daylin Leach to resign.

7 years ago

Side View Of Young Woman Using Mobile Phone While Driving Car
Health

How to keep teen drivers’ eyes on the road, and their fingers off the keyboard

Getting the message through is important: A high proportion of teen car crashes involve distracted driving. So a “multi-pronged” strategy is underway.

7 years ago

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Lauren Otis (left), executive director of Artworks, and Joseph Kuzemka, director of Art All Night in Trenton, are preparing for the arts festival. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Trenton pulls together as Art All Night returns with tighter security

Trenton’s Art All Night festival returns this weekend one year after a mass shooting, but it will no longer be open for 24 hours straight.

7 years ago

Listen 4:48
NJ state capitol complex at night in Trenton, New Jersey.  (Tashka/BigStock)
Politics & Policy

After override threat, N.J. ‘dark money’ bill on its way to becoming law

A bill that would require more nonprofit groups in N.J. to publicize their donors is on its way to becoming law, after Gov. Phil Murphy avoided a veto override.

7 years ago

Cooperative Nursery School director Leah Corsover with a student. (Paul Jablow/The Notebook)
Education
Broke in Philly

Mt. Airy early childhood center works on increasing diversity

Recruitment, workshops, and "challenging" discussions about racism are all part of the effort.

7 years ago

School concept. Back to school, School classroom with empty school chairs and tables, classroom without students, School supplies on blackboard, School of Schoolchild and student education.
Education

N.J. considers eliminating cap on superintendent pay

New Jersey could end superintendent salary cap, put in place when Chris Christie was governor to keep school budgets in check.

7 years ago

African heritage dancers perform at Philadelphia's Odunde Festival.
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Odunde still drawing new fans, 44 years after first street festival

Odunde is 44 years old but the largest street festival in the nation continues to grow as newcomers discover its vibrant charms.

7 years ago

A wildfire in Wharton State Forest in April 2016. (Photo: John H. Rieth/NJFFS)
Down the Shore
Community

Officials investigating whether lightning sparked now contained forest fire

Rain helped firefighters get the upper hand on a fire that consumed 1,800 acres in New Jersey's Wharton State Forest.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the I Will Vote Fundraising Gala Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
National Interest
Politics & Policy
National Interest

In defense of Joe Biden’s abortion switcheroo

Biden needed to get himself in sync with a party base that supports abortion access for all women regardless of income — especially now, with Roe under attack as never before.

7 years ago

Several of the products available from Proctor and Gamble (Courtesy of Loop)
Science

TerraCycle’s Loop launches reusable packaging to enthusiasm — and a little sticker shock

The program has launched in the mid-Atlantic region, allowing customers to order household products in reusable containers that they can return.

7 years ago

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