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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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Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Ocean City deploys raptors over beach, boardwalk to scare away ‘very aggressive’ seagulls

Beginning Saturday, falcons, hawks, and owls will fly over the Ocean City beach and boardwalk from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily in an effort to scare away seagulls.

6 years ago

Bomba drummer Jose Emmannuelli Nater plays for Rochel Rojas as she dances at the celebration of the resignation of Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló at Fairhill Square in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Resignation of Puerto Rico’s governor prompts celebration in North Philly

Dozens of Philadelphia Puertorriqueños sang, danced, and gave speeches celebrating the resignation of Puerto Rico’s scandal-entangled governor.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Police Department headquarters at 7th and Race streets (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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The Philadelphia Tribune

Sources identify 2 officers fired over offensive Facebook posts

Independent sources with knowledge of the situation have confirmed the identities of two of the Philadelphia police officers who are being fired.

6 years ago

The 25th Street Barnegat Bay beach in Barnegat Light. (Google Images)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Public Health
Down the Shore

Fecal bacteria leads to another swimming ban at Barnegat Bay beach

For the second time in a week, swimming is temporarily prohibited at a Long Beach Island bay beach due an unacceptable level of fecal bacteria. 

6 years ago

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Billy Penn

WHYY board game extravaganza at Philly Free Streets

We’re partnering with Thirsty Dice for the car-free party on North Broad.

6 years ago

PhillyCAM at 7th and Ranstead streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Media
Philadelphia

Community media makers in Philly feel ‘rug pulled out’ with proposed FCC rule change

PhillyCAM, which runs the city’s public access channels, celebrates its 10th anniversary this fall, but a proposed federal rule change threatens its funding.

6 years ago

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Geffen Reinherz, 5 (left), and Skyla Car, 7, draw with chalk at Broad and Poplar Streets while Broad Street is closed off for Philly Free Streets on August 11, 2018. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
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Community Events
August 1 - 7, 2019

BlackStar Film Festival, the Women’s Theater Festival, and a peachy event top this weekend’s Things to Do

Art exhibits, a celebration of National Peach Month, the Women’s Theater Festival and the BlackStar Film Festival are among the things to do this weekend.

6 years ago

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Blue lights bathe the bathroom at a Center City Starbucks (Michaela Winberg/Billy Penn)
The Why
Addiction
Architecture & Design
Public Spaces

Are blue lights a solution to Philly’s opioid epidemic?

Blue lights have been popping up around Philadelphia, even in some Starbucks bathrooms. Are the lights a solution to the opioid crisis or are they making it more dangerous?

Air Date: August 1, 2019

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Smith Playground summer camp participants, and Boys and Girls Club members take the first photos in from of the “MVP” Ora Washington statue. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Sculpture

‘It looks like me:’ New South Philly statue meant to inspire young women and girls

Philly commissioned ‘MVP’ as part of a public art program, and it’s the city’s first statue of an individual African-American girl.

6 years ago

A hearing in Clairton, Pa. to discuss a settlement for air pollution violations at US Steel's Clairton Coke Works. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Western Pa. residents, workers air their responses to U.S. Steel settlement

In June, the county health department announced the draft agreement to resolve multiple air pollution violations at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Plant over the past two years.

6 years ago

Amber Hikes, executive director of Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs talks about her last day in office. (KimberlyPaynter/WHYY)
LGBTQ
National
Philadelphia

Philly’s LGBTQ liaison heading to the national stage with the ACLU

After two years in the Kenney administration, Amber Hikes is departing for New York, to become chief diversity officer for the American Civil Liberties Union.

6 years ago

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Rendering of Fashion District exterior (COURTESY FASHION DISTRICT PHILADELPHIA)
Business
Economic Development
Billy Penn

Fashion District Philadelphia: Everything that’ll be open at launch of the former Gallery Mall

More than 50 vendors are in the lineup, including a handful of locals.

6 years ago

Becky Green, 27, stands in front of the mural she helped to create in SEPTA Suburban Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Homelessness
Income Inequality
Visual Arts

City emulates Mural Arts’ ‘same-day pay’ work model after seeing big demand

Demand for the work program run by Mural Arts is greater than the slots available. Now, Philly is doubling down on the model with $300k and another pilot.

6 years ago

Salps
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Small, gelatinous blobs along N.J. beaches are harmless salps, not sea lice

The little gelatinous, translucent blobs now making their annual appearance at New Jersey's beaches are known as salps.

6 years ago

Kids enjoying Philly's First Tee program (Courtesy Billy Hyndman)
Kids
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

Golf course is done at FDR Park, but kids program lives on

After almost 80 years in operation, South Philadelphia’s public golf course is set to close for good on Oct. 31. Its demise is among a handful of changes coming to the park.

6 years ago

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