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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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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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Billy Penn

KP’s Fine Meats opens in Port Richmond, on a corner that’s been home to a butcher shop for a century

With local and imported products — and soon, housemade salumi — the store offers free delivery within 20 miles.

4 years ago

Stephannia Swain
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Philly tourism is surging back. Hotel workers, not so fast

A Philadelphia law gives them priority when hotels are ready to rehire, but workers laid off due to COVID are taking their time and reviewing their options.

4 years ago

Zara Johnson, 6, smiles for the news cameras outside the opening of The Teen Safe Space on North Broad Street in Philadelphia, on February 21, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Photo essay: The Teen Safe Space opens in North Philly

Community rejoices at the opening of a teen haven, offering tutoring, creative outlets, and a chill space.

4 years ago

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‘Here for the people, and the love, and what MLK stood for’ at Wilmington peace march

The event is usually on MLK Day but was postponed until Presidents Day this year because of the record-setting COVID spike in January.

4 years ago

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Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Special birthday delivery: Philly doctor psyched to be working maternity ward on ‘the mother of all Twosdays’

This once-in-a-century date is a palindrome whether you write it U.S. or European style.

4 years ago

Lee Horton and Dennis
Gun Violence
Incarceration
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Freed after wrongful convictions, the Horton brothers want to stop Philly gun violence

They've been trying to get officials to discuss their anti-violence plan, but realize “it may feel a little uncomfortable to defer to the ideas of prisoners for solutions.”

4 years ago

Linda Shockley (right) and Stanley Conaway Jr. protest outside. Linda holds a sign that says,
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New Jersey

Lawnside residents concerned about development that’s paving over history

Some longtime residents of the historically Black borough in Camden County are concerned that development is coming at a cost of the town’s history.

4 years ago

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Krystal Guerra, 32, poses for a picture outside her apartment, which she has to leave after her new landlord gave her less than a month's notice that her rent would go up by 26%, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, in the Coral Way neighborhood of Miami. Guerra, who works in marketing while also pursuing a degree part-time, had already been spending nearly 50% of her monthly income on rent prior to the increase. Unable to afford a comparable apartment in the area as rents throughout the city have risen dramatically, Guerra is putting many of her belongings into storage and moving in with her boyfriend and his daughter for the time being. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Rents reach ‘insane’ levels across U.S. with no end in sight

In the 50 largest U.S. metro areas, median rent rose an astounding 19.3% from December 2020 to December 2021.

4 years ago

Delaware bird rescue temporarily closes after bird tests positive for contagious disease. (6abc)
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6abc

Delaware bird rescue temporarily closes after bird tests positive for contagious disease

Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research is now in quarantine.

4 years ago

Olympic athletes experience the highest of highs and lowest of lows. After training for years, the spotlight shines brightly during almost three weeks of competition. Then it's time to go home and that return can be difficult. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mental Health
Sports

‘A deep depression after the Olympics.’ The challenges facing athletes at home

Since most Olympians don't win a medal and many don't even qualify for the finals, returning home after the Games can be hard.

4 years ago

People pledge allegiance to America as they receive U.S. citizenship at a naturalization ceremony for immigrants in Los Angeles in 2017. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Immigration
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1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. are migrants. Here’s what’s driving that shift

The Pew Research Center combed through census data and found the percentage of the Black population who had migrated to the U.S. had more than tripled over the last 40 years.

4 years ago

Father Roman Pitula of the Philadelphia Ukrainian Catholic Church, standing near a candle the church lit to pray for Ukraine
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Philadelphia

‘Obviously, we hope for peace’: Philadelphia’s Ukrainians watch Russia’s actions anxiously

Many worry about relatives living in Ukraine, and the country from which their families emigrated.

4 years ago

Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora
Crime
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Mental Health
New Jersey

Trenton mayor hopes addressing mental health will interrupt violence

Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora hopes addressing mental health will stem the record bloodshed in New Jersey’s capital city.

4 years ago

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Philadelphia
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‘Welcome back’ discounts and new schedules address SEPTA’s COVID ridership slump

Along with some discounts, SEPTA adds service on some routes, but longer waits on others, to adjust to COVID ridership trends.

4 years ago

Stephanie Willis (left) and Malik Ali hold hoagies inside Vittles food hall
Food & Drink
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

Everybody Eats Philly opens its first location, in Chester. The mission to fight food insecurity is the same

After two years of giving away food in Philadelphia and other cities, the chefs behind the project now have a home at Chester's Vittles Food Court.

4 years ago

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