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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.
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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Review: ‘Emma’ — When does a story become theater?

Can a stage adaptation be too faithful to the book it’s taken from? The version of Jane Austen’s venerable “Emma,” ...

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Schwartz proposes financing Pa. transit projects with severance tax on natural gas

The candidate widely regarded as the front-runner in the Democratic race for Pennsylvania governor has a growing list of items a severanc ...

13 years ago

Side effect of Obamacare: Allowing Medicaid coverage for ex-offenders in N.J.

Drug-policy reformers in New Jersey say the federal health law is finally accomplishing what they’ve been trying to have done for y ...

13 years ago

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Live video of U.S. Senate debate at Rowan University

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 The new FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard opens this weekend with The Elephant Room, a Fringe performance from last year. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

FringeArts Building allows ‘fringey’ spirit of festival to continue all year in Philly

This weekend, a new performance venue will open on the Philadelphia waterfront. The FringeArts Building at Race Street and Columbus Boule ...

13 years ago

Philly-area housing authorities still functioning despite federal shutdown

Nearly a million federal workers, including most employees of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, remain furloughed thi ...

13 years ago

 Ashley Hentze, left, of Lakeland, Fla., gets help signing up for the Affordable Care Act from Kristen Nash, a volunteer with Enroll America.  (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

How does the the Affordable Care Act affect adult children on parents’ insurance?

Got questions about the Affordable Care Act? In a regular feature, the WHYY/NewsWorks Health and Science Desk is providing “The Sho ...

13 years ago

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 Dismissal time at A.S. Jenks elementary in South Philly. Parents say their children are suffering as the district

Robbing Peter to pay Paul: ‘Leveling’ Philly schools in the time of budget crisis

It’s gone from bad to worse. Packed classrooms. Lack of a full-time guidance counselor. No education in arts or music. < ...

13 years ago

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Barbara Buono misses opportunity to offer solutions

Governor Chris Christie and his democratic opponent, State Sen. Barbara Buono, faced off in the first of two debates last night, and what ...

13 years ago

Duo jailed for 15 years get new trial on Philly murder they say they didn’t commit

Two Philadelphia men, imprisoned for 15 years for a murder they say they did not commit, have won a new trial. Eugene Gilyard and ...

13 years ago

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 Residents at a meeting Monday about the racist texting controversy. (Courtesy NBC10)

Coatesville school issues appear to go beyond racist texting

There could be more than racial issues plaguing the Coatesville Area School District as a criminal investigation continues. The focus of ...

13 years ago

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Most in N.J. want Christie to stop fighting same-sex marriage, Quinnipiac finds

The latest Quinnipiac University poll finds voter support for same-sex marriage in New Jersey. Likely voters want Gov. Chris Chris ...

13 years ago

 Tidal flooding in front of Joey's Pizza & Pasta on Long Beach Boulevard in Beach Haven Crest at 1:55 p.m. today. Locals say this is a common flooding spot. (Photo: JSHN contributor Pudge Daniel Trivigno)

NWS: Stronger impacts if nor’easter intensifies, tracks closer to the coast

An approaching coastal storm could deliver stronger impacts than currently forecasted if it intensifies or tracks closer to the shor ...

13 years ago

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Restored N.J. beaches expected to withstand nor’easter

A nor’easter on its way to the Jersey Shore will be the first test of beaches that have not fully recovered from Superstorm Sandy.< ...

13 years ago

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Delaware educators talk strategy at Vision 2015

Hundreds of state educators participated in the Vision 2015 conference presented by the Rodel Foundation of Delaware. The program ...

13 years ago

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