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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Keystone Crossroads

Public art grants program awards total more than $1.2M for Pa. cities

A public art collaborative in Reading is the most recent recipient of an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other P ...

12 years ago

 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in South Seaside Park. (Photo: Mike Sica)
Down the Shore

NWS: “Moderate” risk of rip currents could be upgraded to “high”

Long period swells generated by Tropical Storm Bertha are impacting the Jersey Shore Tuesday. Wave heights will build throughout t ...

12 years ago

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Brainard named president of Delaware Tech

Mark Brainard will take the helm at Delaware Tech after the school’s first choice for new leader decided not to take the job. < ...

12 years ago

 Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Police Dept.

72-year-old man missing from Roxborough Memorial Hospital

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating William Newhouse. At 4:45 p.m. on Monday, 72-year-old Newhouse, who s ...

12 years ago

National Interest

The phony Benghazi “scandal” deflates yet again

  I bet you’re on the beach, lolling in the surf, and surely you’re thinking, “Hey, what’s the latest ...

12 years ago

 Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is shown speaking to members of the media in 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

To clean up Police Department, make cops tell the truth

“The worst case of police corruption I’ve ever heard,” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said of the fede ...

12 years ago

Plants from Germantown Ave. beautification effort damaged, stolen

Not even a month after a ...

12 years ago

 Bruce Willis stars as Tom Hardy, a police officer demoted to river patrol with the Pittsburgh Police Department  in the 1993 movie “Striking Distance.” (Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.)
Keystone Crossroads

Christine Mondor on Bruce Willis, urban imagination and being too provincial

“Five Questions with …” is a regular Keystone Crossroads feature where we seek to glean wisdom and ideas from some of P ...

12 years ago

 This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Melissa McCarthy in a scene from

Who says women aren’t funny?

Ok, quiz time. Who was the first female comedian to host “The Tonight Show ...

12 years ago

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Down the Shore

Report: Woman drowns at unguarded Atlantic City beach (Updated)

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12 years ago

Down the Shore

Classic footage of Seaside Heights in the 1980s

“It’s a beautiful day in Seaside Heights…” That’s how the above 1985 TV commercial begins, quickly t ...

12 years ago

No cigarette tax vote, but promise for funds to tide Philly schools over

After a fruitless meeting of Pennsylvania legislative leaders and the Corbett administration, a cigarette tax for Philadelphia city schoo ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Maps: Pedestrian death rates are higher in poorer areas of Philadelphia

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

August 5: No action on school funding | Pier 53 could open soon | Suburban poverty on the rise | What’s next for Destination Maternity building?

12 years ago

Down the Shore

Above and beyond: Point Dive Team executes a most unusual “rescue”

You’ve sat down for dinner at a waterside seafood restaurant with your spouse and child, placing your sunglasses on the t ...

12 years ago

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