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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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 This rear view of Ardmore Avenue School shows students exercising and an enclosed spiral fire escape. (Lower Merion Historical Society Archives)
Education

Lower Merion remembers desegregation and the end of Ardmore Ave. school

There’s a new historic marker in Lower Merion Township at the site of an elementary school that was shuttered in the weeks followin ...

13 years ago

 Thaddeus Squire is founder and managing director of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia. (Image courtesy of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia)
Arts & Entertainment

Serving quietly as the ‘plumbing and wiring’ behind Philly’s arts activity

The Fringe Festival is just one of a myriad of arts organizations that call Philadelphia home. But for these organizations to survive and ...

13 years ago

 Brave New Worlds, located at 55 N. 2nd St. in Philadelphia, serves nerds with games, toys, and reading material. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Philly’s ’15 Nerdiest Places’ shows width and breadth of nerd culture

Philly’s a lot of things. And now “nerdy” is one of them. The “nerd news and humor” website Topless Robot h ...

13 years ago

 (Newark Police photo)

Newark PD trying to ID some involved in Monday riot

Newark Police are trying to identify two young men seen climbing on cars during Monday night’s wild incident that saw more than one ...

13 years ago

 Trader Joe's in Philadelphia is located at 2121 Market St. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
Money

Trader Joe’s to cut health benefits for part-time workers

A famously generous employer is cutting health benefits for some of its workers. Trader Joe’s told employees it will stop offering ...

13 years ago

 Beachgoers near Casino Pier in Seaside Heights around noon today. (Photo: Justin Auciello/Jersey Shore Hurricane News)

Dangerous waves, rip currents at the Jersey Shore today

Long period swells from Tropical Storm Gabrielle ar ...

13 years ago

Sea level rise remains a major concern in Delaware

With an average height of 60 feet above sea level, Delaware is one of the most vulnerable states for flooding and land erosion resulting ...

13 years ago

 The playwrights (left to right): Douglas Williams, Bruce Walsh and Chris Davis. (Courtesy of FringeArts)

A guide to Fringe Fest in Northwest Philly [Part 2 of 2]

The Neighborhood Fringe Festival continues this week and next with another set of shows and producers based out of Northwest Philly. Loca ...

13 years ago

 You don't have to be an English major to appreciate the awesome nerd cache of this mounted raven at the Free Library of Philadelphia. In life, he was named Grip, and he belonged to Charles Dickens and served as the inspiration for Poe's
Speak Easy

Nine nerdy places in Philly that Topless Robot forgot

Nerd news site Topless Robot today offered a list of the 15 nerdiest places in Philadelphia. But it barely scratches the surface. Here ar ...

13 years ago

 Photographed at a June meeting, Germantown Special Services District board members and nominees: (L-R) Barbara Hogue, Ingrid Shepard, Matt Canno, Dr. Francine Fulton, Joseph Martin, Linda Samuel, Joe Corrigan, Joseph Waldo and John Churchville . Not pictured: Mjenzi Traylor. (Amy Z. Quinn/for NewsWorks)

With street-cleaning plans in works, GSSD plan introduced at Council meeting

After years of planning, the organization tasked with cleaning up Germantown’s business corridor is another step closer to being re ...

13 years ago

Councilman wants to cap Philly real estate tax abatement

A move to limit real estate tax abatements in Philadelphia has been put on hold.  Councilman Wilson Goode Jr. says he wants t ...

13 years ago

What if Philly mayor could not appeal contracts without council’s approval?

For years, the Nutter administration fought a contract an arbitrator awarded to Philadelphia firefighters. Now one city councilman ...

13 years ago

 (NewsWorks photo, file)
Politics & Policy

Pa. judge orders end to same-sex marriage licenses

A state court’s order to stop a Montgomery County court clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples leaves nearly thre ...

13 years ago

 (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)

Explainer: The National Flood Insurance program

Extreme storms like hurricanes Sandy and Katrina have introduced a new lexicon into discussions of both politics and policy, with words a ...

13 years ago

Wesley College student found with gun in class

Dover Police arrested a 19-year-old student who had a gun in his backpack while in class Tuesday.   Wesley College sec ...

13 years ago

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