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Terry Williams standing in one of Eastwick's polluted, urban renewal tracts.  (Troubled Waters Project)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia seeks to heal old Eastwick wound with a ‘village in the city’

Philadelphia’s ‘road map’ for Eastwick development moves a process 60 years in the making forward.

8 years ago

Students and faculty at Temple University line up outside Mitten Hall for free mumps vaccinations. The university scheduled two vaccination clinics after a mumps outbreak sickened more than 100. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Mumps outbreak sends Temple students, staff lining up for free MMR vaccines

More than a hundred Temple University students have come down with the mumps over the last month. The school is offering two free clinics this week.

8 years ago

The Allegheny Land Trust manages the Audubon Greenway northwest of Pittsburgh. The organization first acquired a piece of the land in 2003 and has since added to it with a combination of public and private dollars. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. expects funding from popular conservation program this year despite 5-month lapse

Despite strong bipartisan support for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Congress let it expire last September.

8 years ago

Bridgette May, a certified school nurse in the Erie City School District, speaks during a news conference at the state Capitol on March 26, 2019.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Erie school nurse says she loves her job, but the salary is ‘like a nightmare’

Bridgette May has a salary under $45,000 a year.

8 years ago

A man is angered by the discussion of a proposed safe injection site, yelling as he leaves a meeting Tuesday evening that provided updates on the Philadelphia Resilience Project's efforts to combat the oipiod crisis. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Community

Kensington neighbors angered by potential location of supervised injection site

Residents have been working with the city of Philadelphia for months, so they were surprised to learn about a potential site for an overdose-prevention facility.

8 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in New York. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Biden criticizes ‘white man’s culture,’ role in Anita Hill hearing

Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned "a white man's culture" as he lashed out at violence against women and lamented his role in the Anita Hill hearing.

8 years ago

Workers prepare voting machines at the Office of the  City Commissioner's warehouse the day before the recount of votes in 75 precincts was set to begin. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Cyber security expert urges Pa. to find the money for new voting machines

At a state capitol news conference Tuesday, he warned Pennsylvania, as a swing state, is a target for foreign agents looking to sow doubt in the next election.

8 years ago

Abdelmgeed Muhammad Elgamal inside of his produce market on Allegheny Avenue in Kensington Tuesday. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Grant aims to create economic opportunity in embattled Kensington

Through $5 million from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, a partnership will provide loans for residents to open small businesses, buy homes, and become real estate developers.

8 years ago

An associate professor of nutrition sciences at Drexel University partnered with a research biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find out why chocolate can be so addictive. (Bigstock/jockermaxxx)
Science

Why is it so hard to stop eating chocolate? Drexel scientist’s bittersweet research

Your brain responds to the sweet treat using the same pleasure pathway addictive drugs use, new research shows.

8 years ago

Caleb Arnold is immigration counsel for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

A different view of justice: Philly DA appointee seeks to avoid deportation for some immigrant defendants

The process involves tough calls on criminal cases involving immigrant defendants — and pits different, politicized definitions of justice against each other.

8 years ago

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President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., right, takes a question from a member of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Politics & Policy

Dems cry foul as Trump calls for striking down ‘Obamacare’

The Trump administration has told a federal appeals court it wants the entire Affordable Care Act struck down, an outcome that could leave millions uninsured

8 years ago

James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna is currently locked down due to what the Delaware Department of Correction is calling an emergency situation. (Licensed under Creative Commons)
Courts & Law

Two years after fatal prison riot, 700 cameras installed in Delaware’s largest prison

More than two years after the death of correctional officer Lt. Steven Floyd, 714 security cameras are in place throughout the Vaughn Correctional Center.

8 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. Gov. Murphy pledges to make higher education more accessible, affordable

Announcing his statewide plan for higher education Tuesday, which he said the state has lacked for years, Gov. Murphy emphasized the need among students for work experience.

8 years ago

At a news conference in front of Bartram High School in Southwest Philadelphia, State Sen. Anthony Williams, who's running against Jim Kenney in the mayoral race, criticized Kenney's work on stemming violence in Philadelphia. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Mayoral candidate Williams says Kenney’s plans to stem violence in Philly have failed

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Williams criticized Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on crime, saying his plans to stem violence have failed.

8 years ago

Homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy are seen in this April 2013 image from the Ortley Beach section of Toms River. (AP Photo)
Down the Shore
Courts & Law

Superstorm Sandy contractor gets 5-year prison term for scamming homeowners

A contractor convicted of scamming eight New Jersey homeowners out of more than $247,000 following Superstorm Sandy has been sentenced to five years in state prison.

8 years ago

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