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A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.
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A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively show about language examined through culture, history, and family. Language debates, variations, and evolution, as well as new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, word histories, etymology, linguistics, regional dialects, word games, grammar, books, literature, writing, and more.

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About 30 SEPTA police officers picket outside SEPTA headquarters at 1234 Market Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

SEPTA announces accord with striking transit officers

A SEPTA spokesman said officers were expected to begin returning to duty for the 11 p.m. Tuesday shift.

8 years ago

Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks with the media after a closed-door briefing for the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Senate backs Trump’s Philly-based appeals court nominee over home-state objections

The Senate voted 54-45 to approve Paul Matey to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving the court a majority of Republican appointees.

8 years ago

Pa. state Senator Anthony Hardy Williams (left) and Former City Controller Alan Butkovitz. (Emma Lee/WHYY and Jana Shea for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Pa. state Sen. Williams, former controller Butkovitz challenge Philly Mayor Kenney

Two Democrats are challenging Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s bid for a second term.

8 years ago

Tree-clearing in Delaware County to prepare for the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. The builder, Sunoco Logistics, rejected an attempt by a township in neighboring Chester County to block the installation of a valve along the line. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. AG, Delco DA launch criminal investigation into Sunoco, Energy Transfer

Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."

8 years ago

María del Carmen Díaz has worked as a nanny, caretaker, and house-cleaner in the 24 years that have passed since she first arrived in Philadelphia from Mexico. As a member of the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance, del Carmen Díaz is working to pass a Philadelphia Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, that would stipulate rights and regulations for what has long been a profession unprotected by law. (Emily Neil/AL DÍA News)
Community
Broke in Philly

Alliance pushes for Philadelphia Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

A local worker-led organization is leading the fight to ensure that legal protection is extended to one of the most vulnerable professions in the labor force of Philadelphia.

8 years ago

FBI Special Agent in Charge Boston Division Joseph Bonavolonta, (left), and U.S. Attorney for District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling, (right), face reporters as they announce indictments in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal during a news conference, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, in Boston. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Celebs, coaches charged in college bribery scheme

Federal authorities called it the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department, with parents paying an estimated $25 million in bribes.

8 years ago

Red Whittaker stands beside an early prototype of RadPiper, a pipe-crawling robot that will help decommission uranium enrichment facilities in Ohio and Kentucky. Whittaker has worked in robotics for four decades at Carnegie Mellon University, and he developed several robots in the 1980s that helped clean up after the Three Mile Island incident. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

After TMI accident in ’79, this Carnegie Mellon team pitched a novel idea for cleanup: Use robots. It was just the beginning.

The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.

8 years ago

An abandoned well in McKean County. (Scott Detrow/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State reaches $7M agreement over 1,400 abandoned oil and gas wells

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned wells in the state.

8 years ago

During a hearing before a New Jersey legislative committee Tuesday, Al Alvarez testifies he was falsely accused of rape by Katie Brennan. He says the accusations have devastated his career and taken an emotional toll on his family. (Joe Hernandez/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Al Alvarez, man at center of Murphy hiring scandal, denies knowing who hired him

The former Phil Murphy campaign official and former state employee denies the rape allegation and laments how it has affected his family, but does not discuss it at length.

8 years ago

Computer mouse pads with Secure the Vote logo on them are seen on a vendor's table at a convention of state secretaries of state Saturday, July 14, 2018, in Philadelphia. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. 2019 municipal primary: Key dates and what you need to know

This year, voters in Pennsylvania will elect judges, county commissioners, district attorneys, mayors, school board members and other local leaders.

8 years ago

Marijuana
Politics & Policy

New Jersey takes big step toward legalizing recreational pot

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and legislative leaders said Tuesday they've agreed on legislation to legalize recreational marijuana for adults.

8 years ago

Kyle Fogarty shows the program for the funeral for Antwon Rose Jr. on Monday, June 25, 2018, in Swissvale, Pa. Rose was fatally shot by a police officer seconds after he fled a traffic stop June 19, in the suburb of East Pittsburgh. Fogarty said he was a classmate of Rose and had to attend the service. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Jury selection begins for Pa. trial in death of Antwon Rose, 17

Jurors will be taken to Allegheny County for the trial of Michael Rosfeld, a former Pittsburgh police officer charged with criminal homicide for the death of Antwon Rose II.

8 years ago

Rocks and the bay are seen along Bay Point
Science
NJ Spotlight

Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says

The interim report foresees a ‘massive’ construction project costing ‘several billion dollars.’

8 years ago

In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 photo, a guard opens a gate at the deactivated House of Correction in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Courts & Law
Broke in Philly

ACLU urges Philly bail commissioners to follow the law

The ACLU of Pennsylvania says too many low-income residents are spending time behind bars before trial because they can’t afford bail.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa.
Education

Pa. House brings back bills reorganizing career and technical education

Support for career and technical education happens to be one of the only work-related areas where Pennsylvania Republicans and Democrats agree.

8 years ago

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