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Montana, 33, has been riding dirt bikes and ATVs for more than two decades (KIMBERLY PAYNTER / WHYY)
Radio Times
Elections
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Regional Roundup – 09/28/20

This week; a Kennedy seeks to unseat a party-flipper in NJ, how to handle the kids on dirt bikes in Philadelphia, and the new Philly Orchestra season.

Air Date: September 28, 2020 10:00 am

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The Triple Bottom team celebrates one year in business
Business
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

How Philly’s new woman-owned brewery rekindled hope, despite 2020

Triple Bottom Brewing’s first year was cut in half by the coronavirus, but the business — and its mission — have survived.

5 years ago

Wells Fargo Bank; a Kingsessing home
Housing
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly’s largest bank flip-flops on mortgage assistance, leaving homeowners hanging

Wells Fargo, which recently settled a predatory loan lawsuit, reversed a decision to pull out of Pa.’s CARES Act program.

5 years ago

A polar bear stands on ice
Environment
International
Public Health

Leaders to UN: If coronavirus doesn’t kill us, climate change will

With enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries are acutely aware there's no vaccine for global warming.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles' Carson Wentz
Philadelphia
Sports

Eagles, Bengals play to 23-23 tie

Jake Elliott lined up for a 59-yard field goal with 19 seconds left in overtime, but a false start on Matt Pryor forced the Eagles to punt it away and play for the tie.

5 years ago

A Philadelphia Police Department cruiser is seen traveling down a Philly street.
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Pair of quadruple shootings in Philly leaves 6 teens wounded

Police say the homicide rate is currently running more than 30 percent above last year's toll, which was already the highest in more than a decade.

5 years ago

Philadelphia Police Department investigators stand on a sidewalk as bullet casings and evidence markers lay on the ground after a shooting
Philadelphia
Public Safety
NBC10

Boys, 15 and 16, among 4 people shot near West Philly block party

The gunman shot the teens and two others as they walked away from a party on Lindenwood Street shortly before midnight, police said.

5 years ago

Encampment protest on Ben Franklin Parkway
Homelessness
Housing
Philadelphia

Philly encampment organizers say they’ve reached a tentative deal with the city

Organizers behind Philly’s homeless encampments say they’ve struck a tentative deal with officials to relocate those living in tents to 50 vacant properties.

5 years ago

Carl Day is the Pastor of Culture Changing Christians Worship Center in North Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Health
Public Safety
Religion

Philly pastor who confronted Trump fights gun violence on city streets and over Zoom

Day is one of a growing number of local church leaders on the frontlines of the city’s ongoing battle against gun violence.

5 years ago

Millicent Cahoon stands for a portrait, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. “It’s reiterating to me that my life does not matter, that I’m unsafe,” said Millicent Cahoon, a therapist who started a counseling network for the protest movement. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

In Breonna Taylor’s name: Devastation and a search for hope

For months, Breonna Taylor’s name has been a rallying cry for activists who hoped Black women and their deaths at the hands of police would finally receive the same attention.

5 years ago

Small businesses on Baltimore Avenue
PlanPhilly
Business
Economy
Public Health
Eyes on the Street

2020 is killing small businesses. Philly won’t recover if we let them die

There are things the city can do to support struggling small businesses — and keep Philadelphia from falling deeper into poverty.

5 years ago

Protesters march up 33rd Street in Philadelphia’s University City chanting “Justice for Breonna Taylor.” (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

University groups protest in W. Philly seeking justice for Breonna Taylor

Drexel Community for Justice and Penn Community for Justice called Friday’s march after Kentucky’s attorney general decided not to charge anyone for Taylor’s killing.

5 years ago

Giselle Torres was allegedly abducted by her father, Juan Pablo Torres, right, from a home in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, Sept. 25, 2020. (NBC10)
NBC10

Amber Alert issued for Cheltenham, Pa., girl abducted

The 7-year-old was taken from a home on Montgomery Avenue near the Cheltenham Township border with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania state police said.

5 years ago

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Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

Embiid baby index: The Sixers center’s newborn son, by the numbers

Arthur Elijah de Paula Embiid shares a first name with Joel’s late younger brother.

5 years ago

Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, says the justice system failed her daughter, an emergency room technician who was shot and killed by police in her own apartment in March. Palmer released a statement through her sister Friday, after a grand jury declined to level any charges directly related to Taylor's death. Palmer is seen here in August, speaking outside Louisville City Hall. (John Sommers II/Getty Images)
NPR
Criminal Justice
Policing

‘I have no faith in the legal system,’ Breonna Taylor’s mother says

"I was reassured Wednesday of why I have no faith in the legal system, in the police, in the law," says Tamika Palmer, through her sister. "They are not made to protect us."

5 years ago

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