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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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City firefighters turned the opening of a new firehouse in Northeast Philadelphia Tuesday into the beginning of a campaign to recall the ...

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 Tyrone Werts spent 36 years in prison and helped to establish the Inside Out Prison Exchange program at Graterford. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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