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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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Planning commission blessing of asphalt plant sale makes room for indoor car dealership, apartments, cafe

Desimone Cadillac got a step closer to building an indoor auto showroom with a ground-floor cafe and 10 apartments on the corner of Delaw ...

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 City Council President Darrell Clarke (Emma Lee/NewsWorks Photo, file)

City reaction mixed to Philly school funding request

Philadelphia School District Superintendent William Hite is asking for an additional $300 million each year to provide just the very basi ...

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Ex-Christie aide gets post at Port Authority

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Delaware Auditor unhappy about staff cuts

Following a very brief appearance before the Joint Finance Committee, Delaware State Auditor is calling higher pay for workers in his off ...

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 NAM model showing temperatures near 60 degrees in parts of New Jersey on Friday ahead of a cold front. (Image courtesy of New York Metro Weather)
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The warmest day in recent memory may also deliver a multitude of weather threats, forecasters say.  Temperatures could rise t ...

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Christie talks Sandy, not scandal, at town hall

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is blaming the federal government for failing to allocate enough money to the state to fully recover from ...

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 The 12th Congressional District in New Jersey

Watson-Coleman to run for N.J.’s 12th Congressional seat

Veteran legislator Bonnie Watson-Coleman has become the third candidat ...

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 Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
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Conservative confab disses gay people, yet again

Few of us love the month of February, but one annual ritual always entertains. Like clockwork, the gatekeepers of the conservative bubble ...

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Libertarian Ken Krawchuk to run for Pa. governor

A Libertarian Party activist is the first third-party candidate to enter the Pennsylvania governor’s race. Ken Krawchuk, who ...

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 The latest rendering of the Walnut Lane Bridge project, slated to begin in 2015. (Courtesy of Kittelson & Associates, Inc.)

Residents raise concerns about redesign of historic Northwest Philly bridge

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s pending rehabilitation project for the Walnut Lane Bridge dominated the discussion ...

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Politics & Policy

Gore endorses McGinty in Pa. governor’s race

Katie McGinty is getting an endorsement from a visible ex-employer, former Vice President Al Gore, as she campaigns in a crowded field of ...

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 Philadelphia Schools Superintendent William Hite. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Hite says Philly schools need bare minimum of $320 million more next year

The School District of Philadelphia will be asking for $320 million in additional funds next year to reach “a bare minimum amount o ...

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