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Second Chances Farm founder Ajit George gives a tour of the growing area to then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr in September 2020. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Delaware
Food & Drink
Incarceration

Was it just a ‘pipe dream?’ Hyped Wilmington hydroponic farm that hired ex-prisoners is closing

The concept drew rave reviews from politicians, and a visit by then-Attorney General William Barr. But the founder says the pandemic proved to be crushing.

4 years ago

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Mitch Engleka, 28, manufacturing engineer (right) and Nick Ball, a manufacturing technician (left), inspect a mold that creates latches to secure the spare tire on a Dodge Durango at Southco in Concordville, Pa.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Economy
Employment
Pennsylvania

Business is booming for Delaware Valley manufacturers. Why aren’t people applying for the thousands of open jobs?

As demand for business returns to pre-pandemic levels, Delaware Valley manufacturers struggle to hire, while stigmas about the industry persist.

4 years ago

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A local resident collects the belongings out of his apartment in Kyiv on Sunday in a five-story residential building that partially collapsed after a shelling by Russian troops. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
International
Public Safety

More than 900 civilians have died in Ukraine. The true number is likely much higher

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says 902 civilians have been killed and another 1,459 have been wounded so far in the war in Ukraine.

4 years ago

Pam Blauman-Schmitz, who was a union rep at Starbucks in the mid-1980's, poses for a photo in front of a Starbucks coffee shop Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Seattle.
Business
Employment
National

Labor foe Schultz returns as Starbucks union effort grows

Six U.S. Starbucks stores have voted to unionize since December, and at least 140 more have filed for union elections.

4 years ago

At the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, a mother embraces her son who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol.
International
Military

Amid new bombings, Ukraine now seen as a war of attrition

Ukrainian authorities say Russia’s military bombed an art school sheltering some 400 people in the besieged port city of Mariupol.

4 years ago

Volunteers from Savage Sisters Recovery, one of the founding organizations of HER.
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

New group HER is working to improve Philly’s dangerous recovery house scene, as the first state regulations take effect

“This is a life and death situation,” said the owner of Savage Sisters Recovery, one of the committee’s founding members.

4 years ago

Flourtown Shopping Center on Bethlehem Pike. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Pennsylvania
Real Estate

‘Not another bank’: Flourtown residents want different businesses. Maybe a diner

Take a five-minute drive along Bethlehem Pike, and you’ll see six banks. A seventh is coming and an eighth proposed. Why not anything else?

4 years ago

A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022.
International
Politics

Putin appears at big rally as troops press attack in Ukraine

Russian forces are pressing their assault Ukrainian cities, striking on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv.

4 years ago

Renada Maddox works with students in her preschool class
Delaware
Kids
Neighborhoods

Riverside ‘down and out’ for too long, but $42M community center coming

Kingswood Community Center in Wilmington is about to undergo a major facelift as part of the $300 million REACH Riverside project.

4 years ago

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Delaware River
Delaware
Environment
New Jersey

Delaware’s rivers and streams are the most polluted in the U.S., a new report says

Environmental Integrity Project evaluated waterways classified as impaired, unfit for swimming, recreation, aquatic life, fish consumption, and drinking.

4 years ago

People cross on an improvised path under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. What looked like a breakthrough cease-fire to evacuate residents from two cities in Ukraine quickly fell apart Saturday as Ukrainian officials said shelling had halted the work to remove civilians hours after Russia announced the deal.
International
Philadelphia
Religion

Philly Jewish Federation delegation heads to Poland with supplies for Ukrainian refugees

“People fled out with what they could carry, and our ability to assist them at this very desperate time is vital,” said Michael Balaban.

4 years ago

Nomi Kline Solmeson prepares for her bat mitzvah, reading the Torah in her bedroom with her grandfather, Rabbi David Kline, and her aunt Shira Kline.
NPR
Home & Family
National
Religion

The bat mitzvah turns 100. It marks more than a coming-of-age for Jewish girls

Since girls in the U.S. began having the public ceremony 100 years ago, more and more women have taken on a larger role in Jewish life, including becoming rabbis.

4 years ago

Rowhomes in Nicetown, Philadelphia are visible.
Government
Gun Violence
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

Philly’s plan to treat gun violence as a public health crisis is getting an update with ideas from the community

A listening tour has surfaced new suggestions — but some of them are already in the works.

4 years ago

Damaged vehicles and buildings in Kharkiv city center
International
Public Safety

Rescuers search for survivors in smashed Mariupol theater

A photo released by Mariupol's city council showed an entire section of the large, 3-story theater had collapsed after the strike Wednesday evening.

4 years ago

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Delaware
New Jersey
Outdoors
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6abc

Brush fires send smoke billowing over National Park, New Jersey and Christiana, Delaware

Chopper 6 was over both fire scenes on Wednesday afternoon.

4 years ago

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