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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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Health

Diabetes remains high in South Jersey’s Latino communities. Local groups are fighting it one meal at a time

Community-led diabetes programs in Cumberland County are closing gaps in care for Latino residents with education, support and prevention.

1 week ago

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Community

CHOP finds virtual appointments to check child car seats are effective, will continue to offer them

Recent national data show that the vast majority of parents install their child's car seat incorrectly.

1 week ago

Actor Gary Busey
Courts & Law

Gary Busey pleads guilty to sex offense at N.J. horror convention

Busey had been accused of inappropriately touching women at the Monster-Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel in Cherry Hill, where he was a featured guest.

1 week ago

Firefighters work to clean up hot dogs spilled from a truck on a highly traveled interstate
Community

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters’ wurst nightmare

State police said the tractor trailer had an unspecified mechanical problem that caused it to push into a passenger vehicle.

1 week ago

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Politics & Policy

The CPB, the agency that spawned NPR, PBS and modern public media, begins winding down

The Senate Appropriations Committee failed to include future funding in the latest budget pass. WHYY says its future remains though other area stations face challenges.

1 week ago

Bump stock
Courts & Law

Philadelphia gun bump stock ban upheld in court, defying previous legal defeats

A Philadelphia judge upheld the city’s ban on gun modifiers like switches and bump stocks, a rare legal win amid ongoing state preemption battles.

1 week ago

Protestors hold signs to demonstrate their support for transgender children
Courts & Law

States sue Trump, saying he is intimidating hospitals over gender-affirming care for youth

The claim in a lawsuit comes after a wave of hospital systems said in July that they're ending aspects of the care.

1 week ago

Jane Gaudreau, mother of hockey players Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, stands in front of a children's playground
Community

Gaudreau Family 5K raises more than $500,000 for accessible playground at special education school

The playground honors hockey players John and Matt Gaudreau, who were killed by a suspected drunk driver last August.

1 week ago

Josh Sanderlin (right) speaks with James Brobyn
Community

‘Here to get a little buzz’: Buyers flow into retail marijuana stores as Delaware launches recreational market

Recreational sales began at 12 medical weed dispensaries that paid $100,000 apiece for conversion licenses. Thirty retail-only stores are coming too.

1 week ago

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Public transit supporters rallied outside SEPTA headquarters
Politics & Policy

Philly-area Republicans present a plan to increase SEPTA accountability, but provide no financial support

As SEPTA service cuts loom, Republican state senators lay out a transit transparency bill that offers oversight, but not funding.

1 week ago

Emil Bove sitting in the courtroom
Courts & Law

Democrats and court watchers express concern for controversial new member of consequential 3rd Circuit Court

Emil Bove’s confirmation on the 3rd Circuit shifts the balance of the key appeals court in favor of right-wing Republicans.

1 week ago

Practice sculptures by University of the Arts students
Arts & Entertainment

Art by the pound: Thousands of abandoned artworks are being salvaged from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts

UArts’ Anderson Hall has been sold to become a mixed-use development. Thunderbird Salvage is trying to rescue everything left behind.

1 week ago

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Offshore turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Farm
Politics & Policy

Trump administration cancels plans to develop new offshore wind projects

More than 3.5 million acres had been designated wind energy areas.

1 week ago

Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.
Weather

Heavy rain pummels the East Coast and sparks isolated flash flooding

Airports in Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York reported flight delays and cancellations, and Amtrak officials said high water stopped trains between Philly and Wilmington.

1 week ago

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Education

A look at colleges with federal money targeted by the Trump administration

Like no other president, Donald Trump has used the government's control over federal research funding to push for changes in higher education, including at Penn and Princeton.

1 week ago

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