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Now New Jersey wants to recoup millions that it loaned to agencies pending a fix even though billing troubles — and payment troubles — persist. (Zurijeta/Big Stock)
Health
NJ Spotlight

Providers of key child therapies in N.J. plagued by billing system problems

Now New Jersey wants to recoup millions that it loaned to agencies pending a fix even though billing troubles — and payment troubles — persist.

7 years ago

Normita Lim poses for a photograph at her home in Concord, Calif. Lim did not receive back pay from her former employer, Publico, who paid her $2 an hour. (James Tensuan/Reveal via AP)
Health

Elder care homes rake in profits as workers earn a pittance

Workers often fear reporting their mistreatment to authorities. They routinely are harassed and fired if they report abysmal pay or overtime violations.

7 years ago

Two Democrats in Congress have introduced bills that would bar brick-and-mortar businesses nationwide from rejecting cash. (Jeff Chiu/AP Photo)
Money

U.S. may follow Philly and New Jersey to ban cashless businesses

Two Democrats in Congress have introduced bills that would bar brick-and-mortar businesses nationwide from rejecting cash.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney visited a kindergarten class at Andrew Jackson Elementary School the day after being elected in 2015.  (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Jim Kenney cares a lot about the children of Philadelphia. Has he done enough for their schools?

Some of Kenney’s boldest moves have come on education issues. But he’s also taken a restrained approach to the city's school system.

7 years ago

Montgomery County voters will using a new voting system this year. Paper ballots will be filled out and then fed into a scanning machine where they will be read and stored. (Courtesy of Montgomery County administrative office)
Politics & Policy

Get ready for Montco’s new modern voting system: Paper ballots

Paper ballots are replacing push-button machines as a part of a nation-wide push to update voting technology and make it more secure.

7 years ago

Commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf risk being targeted by
Politics & Policy

Saudis say they don’t want war, but will defend themselves

Saudi Arabia does not want war but will not hesitate to defend itself against Iran, a top Saudi diplomat said Sunday.

7 years ago

Candidates hold yes signs aloft signaling their agreement with the proposal of a representative speaker. Twenty candidates for city council attended a candidates forum at Congregation Rodeph Shalom on March 24, 2019. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

How Philly’s City Council candidates say they’d deal with the housing crisis

Philadelphia voters in Tuesday’s primary election will help determine the future of City Council — and of policies to deal with the city’s affordable housing crisis.

7 years ago

Ashley Garecht speaks as anti-abortion protesters rally near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia, Friday, May 10, 2019. The demonstration was spurred by the actions of a Democratic state lawmaker who recorded himself berating an anti-abortion demonstrator at length outside the clinic. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

As states pass restrictive abortion laws, questions surface

As multiple states pass laws banning many abortions, questions have surfaced about what exactly that means for women who might seek an abortion. The short answer: nothing yet.

7 years ago

Two teams battle it out to advance to the next round of the 10th Annual John Marzano Half Ball Tournament. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Community

How to try your hand at half-ball, the old-school Philly street game

The game of half-ball has a local history spanning about 70 years that calls for a broomstick, a three-story building, and half of a squishy ball.

7 years ago

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Christina Paravecchia, plays with daughter Madelyn Rose as her dad, Albert “Two-pops” Catarro helps out by holding baby Amelia Grace who was born March 20. Christina had half her brain removed in 1996, when she was eight-years-old. (William Johnson/The Intelligencer via AP)
Health

For brain surgery patient, greatest challenge is motherhood

To many people, she is remembered as the girl with half a brain. But Christina Santhouse knows there are two little girls who will only know her as something else: Mom.

7 years ago

Members of Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light board a recreational fishing vessel while conducting a living marine resources patrol and vessel safety inspection on Nov. 7, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Seth Johnson)
Down the Shore
Community

Patrols underway to enforce federal striped bass regulations in N.J.

As striped bass arrive in New Jersey waters, the U.S. Coast Guard is ready to issue fines to anglers who catch striped bass outside of the allowable boundary, officials say.

7 years ago

(Rose Conlon/Marketplace)
Health
Marketplace

Age of fraud: Are seniors more vulnerable to financial scams?

Not only are older people heavily targeted by scammers, but surprising data suggest that, as we get older, we become more vulnerable to fraud in so many of its forms.

7 years ago

Clinging jellyfish (Courtesy of Dr. Paul Bologna‎/Montclair State University)
Down the Shore
Community

Researcher finds nearly 300 dangerous clinging jellyfish in Barnegat Bay

A researcher has once again found the dangerous and invasive clinging jellyfish in an Ocean County waterway. 

7 years ago

Day-hikers scramble over rocky boulders on the Appalachian Trail below the summit of Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park in Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)
Community
PA Post

After a new killing on the Appalachian Trail, the 1990 death of hikers in Pa. haunts their friend anew

29 years later, Swift is shocked at the news of another killing. James Jordan was charged last week in the Appalachian Trail stabbing death of an Army veteran.

7 years ago

In this Dec. 30, 2018, file photo, Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long stands on the sideline prior to the team's NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md. Long has announced his retirement from football, ending an 11-year NFL playing career that included winning two Super Bowl titles and the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. (Mark Tenally/AP Photo)
Community

Philadelphia Eagles’ Chris Long announces retirement after 11 NFL seasons

In 2017, Chris Long donated his entire salary to support education in cities where he has played: St. Louis, Boston and Philadelphia.

7 years ago

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