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Shipping load containers on the runway at PHL (Courtesy UPS Philadelphia)
Economic Development
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Holiday shipping surge means PHL Airport is bursting at the seams

When a new cargo facility opens in 2021, it could bring billions in new business.

6 years ago

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts. (Big Stock photo)
Down the Shore
Environment
Innovation
New Jersey

Shore town joins forces with recycling company to repurpose cigarette butts

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts.

6 years ago

The inaugural Barefoot Country Music Fest is set for Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21 on Wildwood's Lincoln Avenue beach. (Public domain image)
Down the Shore
Community Events
New Jersey

Wildwood to host 3-day country music festival on the beach

The inaugural Barefoot Country Music Fest is set for Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21 on Wildwood's Lincoln Avenue beach.

6 years ago

(Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports)
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

Dallas Week: Why Sunday’s Eagles-Cowboys game is such a big deal

If the Birds pull this off, it’s huge.

6 years ago

(Kensington Community Food Co-op/Facebook)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Kensington’s new food co-op could shut down if it doesn’t raise $20k this week

The member-supported grocery store is in dire financial straits.

6 years ago

Malcolm Jenkins, safety on the Philadelphia Eagles, speaks at a police reform rally at the
Arch Street United Methodist Church. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Policing
Social Justice

Malcolm Jenkins says candidates to run Philly police ‘are already hiding’

Philadelphia’s mayor is slated to name a new leader before year’s end. Some, like the Eagles safety, worry the process is taking place behind closed doors.

6 years ago

(Bargaintown Volunteer Fire Company photo)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Fire destroys 2 yachts at Jersey Shore marina

Pollution control teams responded to a marina in southern New Jersey after two large boats caught fire.

6 years ago

Former President Barack Obama says of men who stay too long in power,
NPR
Gender

Barack Obama says women could solve many of world’s problems — which men have caused

The world would be a better place if more women were in charge, former President Barack Obama says.

6 years ago

(Al Día)
Changing Communities
Housing
Income Inequality
Broke in Philly

Uncertain future as Puerto Rican community faces gentrification in Norris Square, Philadelphia

Just north of Fishtown and Northern Liberties is Norris Square, a proud Puerto Rican community facing an uncertain future as gentrification takes hold.

6 years ago

This photo provided by U.S. Embassy Switzerland,  Edward McMullen greets Xiyue Wang in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019.  In a trade conducted in Zurich, Iranian officials handed over Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang, detained in Tehran since 2016, for scientist Massoud Soleimani, who had faced a federal trial in Georgia.  (U.S. Embassy Switzerland via AP)
International
New Jersey

Researcher freed from Iran urges release of other prisoners

A Princeton University scholar who was freed from Iran this month after three years in captivity said Monday that his release “is a victory of humanity and diplomacy."

6 years ago

Rosado (center, with crown) surrounded by colleagues at his goodbye party (Facebook/ Prevention Point)
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Face of Prevention Point leaves after 25 years: ‘The trauma was starting to take its toll’

Elvis Rosado was a pivotal part of the Kensington harm reduction nonprofit.

6 years ago

Sen. Darius Brown, Savannah Shepherd and others read the words on The Lynching of George White Historical Marker just minutes after it was unveiled at Greenbank Park on June 23. (Scott Goss/Delaware Senate Majority Caucus)
Radio Times
Environment
History

Regional Roundup – 12/16/19

This week: the new leader of Pa.'s Working Families Party, uncovering Delaware's racist past, Pa. Auditor General talks the Berks detention facility and climate change costs.

Air Date: December 16, 2019

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Demonstrators take part in a protest on climate emergency outside the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid on Friday. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
International

U.N. Climate Summit goes to extra time, but ends with major questions unresolved

The global climate talks in Madrid ended on Sunday – two days after its scheduled closing, and with little to show for the marathon session.

6 years ago

Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence executive director Sue Ryan talks at the Francis X. Norton Center in Wilmington. (Courtesy ChristianaCare)
Delaware
Environment
Social Justice

32 Delaware organizations will share $2 million in effort to improve health

ChristianaCare Health System launches a community investment fund to address social, behavioral, and environmental factors that can lead to poor health.

6 years ago

SERE trainees in a life raft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ariel Owings)
Down the Shore
Military
New Jersey

Military conducts survival training in the Barnegat Bay

The Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program provides military personnel with training in evading capture, survival skills, and the military code of conduct.

6 years ago

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