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Workers are moving first, asking questions later. What happens when offices reopen?

As the pandemic stretched on, some employees moved hundreds of miles from the offices they're supposed to return to once it's safe. Will their bosses make them come back?

5 years ago

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Delaware
Incarceration

Delaware prisons resuming in-person visits, but virtual sessions remain popular option

One woman whose fiancé is incarcerated says they will stick with video for now, rather than deal with plexiglass dividers and masks required for in-person visits.

5 years ago

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Income Inequality
Philadelphia
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Philly extends moratorium on water shut-offs through April 2022

The water will stay on for those unable to pay their utility bills through April 2022, officials announced Monday.

5 years ago

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Occupy Cherry Hill: Unhoused people gather at upscale mall to protest lack of warming centers

Tawanda Jones is staging sit-ins to protest the lack of warming centers for those experiencing homelessness in Camden. The state’s involvement gives her hope.

5 years ago

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Social Justice

‘I Gotchu’: Understanding and urging allyship

Three representatives of distinct communities joined WHYY in conversation about effective allyship and accelerating social movements through collaboration.

5 years ago

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Energy
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Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania county went from bust to boom times with natural gas. Now, it’s nearly broke

Commissioners, led by Republicans, raised taxes amid a pandemic and for the first time since 2010, despite the county having received more than $37 million in gas impact fees.

5 years ago

An archival image of Caroline LeCount (Courtesy of Transportationhistory.org)
Radio Times
Health Care
History

Regional Roundup, 3/8/21

This week; the rocky rollout of vaccines in the suburbs, how NJ Sen. Menendez will influence Biden, and who was Philly's Rosa Parks?

Air Date: March 8, 2021 10:00 am

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Philadelphia
Public Health
Sports

‘A hope for the future’: Flyers fans, workers return to the Wells Fargo Center

Getting to watch Sunday night’s Flyers game in person offered some fans a welcome distraction from the woes of one year of pandemic life.

5 years ago

People run and bike along the Schuylkill River
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

NYC-to-Philly bike ride returns with new August dates and virtual option

Postponed by the pandemic, the first-of-its-kind trip is a fundraiser to help create a 3,000-mile route from Maine to Florida.

5 years ago

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NPR
Employment
Income Inequality
National

‘Why us?’: A year after being laid off, millions are still unemployed

Millions who lost jobs at the beginning of the pandemic are still out of the labor force, making up levels not seen since the Great Recession.

5 years ago

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History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

‘A story of perseverance’: Upper Darby offers a new anti-slavery walking tour

The 4.5-mile self-guided route runs from Drexel Hill almost to the border with West Philadelphia, highlighting sites along the Underground Railroad.

5 years ago

No one will be allowed to sit in the first ten rows around the ice in order to protect players, who have traded their plexiglass enclosures for netting to improve air circulation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Public Health

Wells Fargo Center puts fans back in the game

The Philadelphia Flyers will be the first to play in person for fans in a year. The 76ers will follow next weekend.

5 years ago

Facebook headquarters
NPR
Media

Far-right misinformation is thriving on Facebook. A new study shows just how much

Far-right accounts are more successful than other kinds of accounts at getting likes, shares and other forms of user engagement.

5 years ago

Mo Williams
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
Sports

At the NBA All-Star Game, HBCUs will take center stage

Sunday’s All-Star Game in Atlanta is generating $3 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, through donations to scholarship funds.

5 years ago

NPR
International
Public Health

Pandemic inspires more than 1,200 new German words

German's propensity for compounding words has been a big part of the proliferation.

5 years ago

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