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Each program mixes interviews with guest travel experts, your call-ins with questions and comments, and music. We talk about our favorite travels in Europe, as well as travel anywhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Public Health

When a beloved life ends, virtual hugs can’t replace human touch

Four days before she died of respiratory failure unrelated to COVID-19, I was forced to leave my mother’s hospital bedside, thanks to new visitor restrictions.

6 years ago

A man wearing a mask walks by a window display at a J Crew store in Rockefeller Center, Saturday, May 2, 2020, in New York. On April 30, the company announced it would apply for bankruptcy protection amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Business
Economy

J.Crew files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The owner of J.Crew is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, two months after the first person in New York tested positive for COVID-19.

6 years ago

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Penn Medicine Chaplain Camille Turner has to call her patients to provide comfort, rather than meeting them at their bedsides. (Provided by Camille Turner)
Delaware
Public Health
Religion

The comfort of touch, and the clergy’s new challenge to minister without it

Religious leaders have become accustomed to hugging and holding hands to comfort congregants. But during social distancing, they must find other ways to console.

6 years ago

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In this Wednesday, April 22, 2020, RUSH Hospital respiratory therapist Jumana Azam puts on a surgical mask after standing before a face temperature scanner as she reports for her early morning shift at the hospital in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Public Health
Religion

In US, a virus-era Ramadan presents obstacles, opportunities

For Muslims in the United States, there is no other time more centered around gathering in congregation than the holy month of Ramadan.

6 years ago

This Oct. 3, 2019 file photo shows Ryan Reynolds at New York Comic Con. (AP Photo/Steve Luciano)
Kids
National

Make-A-Wish trying to make dreams come true during pandemic

Make-A-Wish CEO Richard Davis says 5,000 wishes are currently on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

Broad Street Line
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Health
Transportation

SEPTA loses two more employees to COVID-19

Steve McFadden, a Regional Rail conductor, and Terrance Burton, a Midvale operator, bring the death toll of SEPTA employees to seven.

6 years ago

Reopen Delaware protest
Delaware
Economy
Public Health

Protesters outside Gov. Carney’s office plead for him to reopen Delaware

One woman wearing prison garb said she feels “like our freedom has been taken away.” She wants to go to church and the beach and not have to wear a mask.

6 years ago

Wine
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania

PA Court: Special wine, liquor orders can be sent directly

The PLCB can’t ignore a 2016 state law that permits the direct shipping of wines and spirits not sold in state-run stores, the Commonwealth Court ruling said.

6 years ago

Members of the Pennsylvania Domestic Workers Alliance and Councilmember Helen Gym gathered inside City Council chambers on Oct. 31 prior to the Law and Government Committee’s passage of the Philadelphia Domestic Workers Bill of Rights which goes into effect May 1, 2020. (AL DÍA News)

Invisible no longer: I’m a nanny and finally, I have the protections I need

I am proud to be one of 16,000 house cleaners, caregivers, and nannies in Philadelphia who, starting May 1, have the protections they need.

6 years ago

Family takes walk in Philadelphia amid COVID-19 pandemic
Neighborhoods
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Springtime vignettes from West Philly: Finding beauty in the April that never was

A photo essay reflects that hope springs eternal — and gives us a chance to reflect on the need for resilience as we edge toward recovery.

6 years ago

Folding chairs at an outside cafe
Down the Shore
Food & Drink
New Jersey
Public Health

Jersey Shore municipalities adopt restaurant regulations for summer season

Masked employees, more alfresco dining and continued curbside pick-up. Those are just some aspects of how dining might function at the Jersey Shore this summer.

6 years ago

The Salem Harbor Marina
Outdoors
Public Health
Public Spaces

Want to go fishing or boating as restrictions lift? Here’s what you need to know

Starting this weekend, marinas in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania all will be allowed to open. Other water-access points will follow next week.

6 years ago

Construction at 1324 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown.
PlanPhilly
Economy
Philadelphia
Real Estate

Construction workers report to job sites with masks under hard hats as slowdown looms

An estimated 12,000 people work construction in Philadelphia. These workers returned to new rules and a changed economic landscape on Friday.

6 years ago

Raeanne Auber, of McCandless, Pa. (Photo provided by Auber)
Keystone Crossroads

Unemployed in a ‘black hole’: Pa.’s jobless wait for benefits as pressure, bills mount

More than 1.6 million Pennsylvanians have filed unemployment compensation requests since mid-March. Many say they are stuck in limbo waiting for benefits as bills pile up.

6 years ago

Listen 4:33
pool
Philadelphia
Public Health
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

Philly public pools will not open this summer, because of budget cuts — and virus worries

Residents will have to go without neighborhood swim spots this year.

6 years ago

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