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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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Happy Flower Day Project founder inspires acts of kindness this giving season

Trisha Gallagher, author of “150 Ways to Sprinkle Kindness in Your Community,” has given away 65,000 bouquets of flowers.

4 years ago

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The Amazon warehouse at the center of a high-profile unionization drive is seen on March 29 in Bessemer, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
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Amazon warehouse workers get to re-do their union vote in Alabama

A U.S. labor-board official is ordering a re-vote after an agency review found Amazon improperly pressured warehouse staff to vote against joining a union.

4 years ago

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Oh! Christmas tree? Cardboard display is the talk of a N.J. town

Many in the artsy seaside city love the piece. Others say it looks like a pile of Amazon shipping boxes or a giant cat-scratching post.

4 years ago

IBEW spokesman Frank Keel says John Dougherty will continue to lead the union while he appeals the verdict. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Regional Roundup – November 29th

Reforming city government after the guilty verdict in the trial of a local union leader and city councilmember. And, an unusual heart on display at the Mutter Museum.

Air Date: November 29, 2021 10:00 am

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The Mandarin duck in Pennypack Park
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A rare and magnificent Mandarin duck is paddling around Pennypack Park

Philly birders are aflutter over the rare sight.

4 years ago

Illuminated trees behind the main Philadelphia Zoo entrance sign.
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Billy Penn

Photos: The Philly Zoo is glowing with a million lights for the holidays

The 25-foot pink flamingo tree is back, thanks to the LumiNature exhibit.

4 years ago

Delaware County will acquire the wooded 213-acre site at Sproul Road and Reed Road in Marple Township that was home to the Don Guanella School. The property is owned by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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If the contested Don Guanella site stays mostly open space, Delco residents have ideas for its use

The county awaits a response from the Philadelphia Archdiocese and Maple Glen Development LLC to see if $21M million is “just compensation.”

4 years ago

A SEPTA bus approaches City Hall in a bus lane.
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SEPTA moving to zero emissions future

SEPTA officials say they can’t go all battery buses for now but are eliminating the remaining all diesel buses for hybrids.

4 years ago

FDR Park’s iconic gazebo. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philly expands winter curfew at several parks because of deer control activities

New hours are at Bartram’s Garden, Cobbs Creek, East and West Fairmount Parks, FDR, Pennypack, and Wissahickon Valley, among others.

4 years ago

Philadelphia's Fashion District mall at 9th and Market streets boasted small crowds on Black Friday
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Black Friday at Fashion District Philadelphia: Good sales and modest crowds, shoppers say

These holidays could be different even from 2020, but supply chain worries and staff shortages didn’t seem to be a factor as shopping season began.

4 years ago

Philadelphia sanitation workers on their route. (Image courtesy of Philadelphia Streets Department)
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Philadelphia wants you to recycle your (clean) Amazon boxes

The city of Philadelphia is urging people to get back into recycling and learn the tips and tricks to make the effort worthwhile.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Police officers in 1969, just a few years after they started using the phrase ''Black Friday.''
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Philadelphia

The very Philly reason the day after Thanksgiving is called ‘Black Friday’

Police used it as a way to keep annoying shoppers from flooding the city in the '60s. No, really.

4 years ago

In this Nov. 19, 2021 photo, Wildwood N.J. Mayor Pete Byron gestures toward a section of the Wildwood, N.J. boardwalk that is being rebuilt. The popular seaside town is repairing or rebuilding most of its century-old boardwalk over the next five years
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Century-old Jersey Shore boardwalk is undergoing repairs

One of the Jersey Shore’s most popular boardwalks is undergoing repairs designed to better prepare it for summer crowds next year.

4 years ago

The Winter Street Greenway and Rob Stuart Memorial Dog Park (Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation)
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Philadelphia

How an activist family got a new park built in Logan Square

Logan Square activists succeeded in their efforts to build the newly opened $1 million Winter Street Greenway and Rob Stuart Memorial Dog Park. Here’s how they got it done.

4 years ago

Tania Greene, Reyna Navarro and Tania León are selling at the Christmas Village for the first time. (Elizabeth Estrada/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Philly’s traditional Christmas Village shines with a ‘liberating’ new attraction

For the first time, the holiday market at Love Park will feature a dedicated space for small businesses owned by Black and brown Philadelphians.

4 years ago

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