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Philly Fire Department personnel no longer at PES refinery site 24/7
Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said only trace amounts of dangerous hydrofluoric acid remain at the damaged Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery.
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2020 Census workers trying to reach more rural immigrants, college students in Delaware
U.S. Census director Steven Dillingham got an update on Delaware's progress reaching "hard-to-count" groups ahead of the 2020 Census.
6 years ago
‘El Inquirer’: Philly’s paper of record rolls out a Spanish-language site
Philadelphia’s growing Latinx population has a new place to turn for news.
6 years ago
This week: an explainer on Pa. gun laws and the efforts to expand them, the move to reform standardized testing in N.J, and Voicemail Poems.
Air Date: September 23, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 0:00Explore the home of Philly’s first independent mayor and George Washington’s abolitionist confidante
Elizabeth Willing Powel was an underappreciated architect of the United States.
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Colorblind videographer surprised on air with color-corrective glasses
A Neumann University student videographer was surprised during a live newscast with color-corrective glasses purchased by his classmates.
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Listen 2:11Delaware State pays homage to Tuskegee Airmen with new planes
A flight-training program that traces its lineage to the Tuskegee Airmen is expanding with new planes.
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‘Hamilton’ vs. the Eagles: I’m trading in football for theater with my fam
A story of internal conflict by a lifelong Birds fan.
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For a black woman in the military, harassment was its own battle
At StoryCorps, retired Col. Denise Baken says the challenges she faced as both a woman and an African American in the Army weighed her down over time, mentally and physically.
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A few hundred members of the Puerto Rican community came together Saturday to reflect on the resiliency of their homeland, two years after Hurricane Maria.
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Why is poverty increasing in Northeast Philly? Aging population, immigration, gentrification
The storied enclave of some 300,000 residents has seen poverty become a burgeoning and unwanted feature over the last generation
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Historic Philly Underground Railroad stop that freed 9,000 slaves is saved from brink of collapse
The Robert Purvis House is being repaired despite the property owner’s inaction.
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As Three Mile Island stops producing electricity, one local community braces for change
For those who live nearby, the possibility of the plant’s closure loomed for years.
6 years ago
N.J. officials urge extreme caution as dangerous rip currents persist
Dangerous rip currents continue to impact New Jersey due to large swells from now dissipated Hurricane Humberto.
6 years ago
‘If you don’t act like adults, we will’: Hundreds of youth climate strikers surround City Hall
Many school students and teachers attended the march disregarding the School District of Philadelphia’s announcement that they would be marked as an unexcused absence.
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