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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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Art Caplan reflects on a career in bioethics while leaving for NYU

It wasn’t that long ago that the term “bioethics” wasn’t well known. But more than any other American scientist, ...

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Quakers’ future home to feature a ceiling that slides open to the sky

A steady downpour could not dampen the spirits of those gathered to take part in the groundbreaking ceremony for Chestnut Hill Friends Me ...

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PATCO to continue quiet car experiment

Train passengers can continue to ride in relative silence between southern New Jersey and Philadelphia. PATCO says it will extend ...

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Sports journalist talks about cardiac screenings for student athletes

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‘Black Madam’ faces Wednesday preliminary hearing in ‘pumping party’ case

A preliminary hearing for Padge-Victoria Windslowe, the so-called “Black Madam” who was arrested in late February in Germanto ...

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Germantown High students open the city’s first in-school ‘bank’ branch

Set to a backdrop of money themed songs by the O’Jays, Donna Summer and Ol Dirty Bastard, Germantown High School hosted a first-of- ...

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East Falls thief arrested after returning to crime scene to ask for a job

Here’s one to add to the dumb criminals list: An alleged thief who reportedly robbed Joe Long’s East Falls Auto shop, located ...

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Education

Principal reinstated in Camden as part of whisltleblower suit settlement

A former school principal turned whistle-blower is getting his job back, thanks to an arbitration judge’s ruling. The Camden educa ...

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Lagging N.J. tax revenues jeopardize Christie income tax-cut plan, Democrats say

New Jersey tax collections are below the projections made by the Christie administration. The latest figures from the New Jersey T ...

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Philly church mum on priest until donor complained

Documents from a clergy-abuse trial show Catholic church officials ignored complaints a Philadelphia priest had molested two boys until ...

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Move to privatize Pa. prison nursing services fails

Critics of a plan by Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections to outsource the work of its nurses to private companies are breathin ...

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Temple, former med school official settle with feds over billing fraud

Temple University and Dr. Joseph Kubacki have settled with the United States in Kubacki’s conviction for improper medical billing. ...

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New filing in Pennsylvania voter ID suit

Remember that lawsuit filed to stop Pennsylvania’s voter ID law? Well now there’s a suit to keep it. Eight Pennsylvani ...

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Rabid raccoon captured in the Wissahickon after trail attack

A rabid raccoon was captured in Wissahickon Park this week after biting an adult in a public restroom near Roxborough’s Valley Gree ...

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Jay-Z will invite Obama to Philly’s Made in America music festival

Nearly 30 performers will be part of Philly’s “Made in America” musical festival Labor Day weekend, but organizer Jay-Z ...

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