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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)
Things To Do
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

A customer holds up a SEPTA Key card.
PlanPhilly
Pennsylvania
Transportation
PlanPhilly

SEPTA Regional Rail paper Trailpasses will disappear starting in August

SEPTA is phasing out its paper monthly and weekly Trailpasses. All passes will be sold as Key card purchases starting in August. Click for details.

6 years ago

Delaware Governor John Carney signs into law a partial plastic bag ban (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Business
Delaware
Environment

Delaware bans plastic bags for large stores beginning in Jan. 2021

The new law bans plastic bags from stores with more than 7,000 square feet of retail space and chain stores with three or more locations with at least 3,000 square feet each.

6 years ago

(Jon Hurdle/NJ Spotlight)
New Jersey
Public Health
NJ Spotlight

Carneys Point, seeking Dupont cleanup, no longer a meek company town

Advocates claim links between illness and chemical contamination as companies feud over who would pay to clean soil and water.

6 years ago

Aerial view of beachgoers on the shoreline of Atlantic City, N.J.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Father dies attempting to save son from drowning in ocean

A man died Monday morning after he attempted to save his son from drowning in the ocean off Atlantic City, authorities say.

6 years ago

Steven Ball plays the console of the huge Boardwalk Hall organ in Atlantic City, N.J. The organ that is mostly behind the walls of Boardwalk Hall, is described by experts as the largest musical instrument on the planet. The massive organ at Boardwalk Hall hasn’t functioned at its full capacity since a hurricane in 1944. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Radio Times
Elections
Music

Regional Roundup – 07/29/19

This week; how the city plans to cool down Philly's hottest neighborhoods, the fight over upgrading Pa.'s voting machines, and the world's biggest instrument in Atlantic City.

Air Date: July 29, 2019 10:00 am

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