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(Images from Pizza Gutt's Instagram account)

What started out as a way to destress from a job he hated has become Daniel Gutter's sole way of earning a living. His secret recipe? Instagram.

6 years ago

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Chamarra McCrorie gives Indego's new e-bikes a test ride on Thomas Paine Plaza. (Jim Saksa/WHYY)

PlanPhilly

Philly adds electric bikes to Indego fleet

Like Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, Indego has gone electric, adding 10 pedal-assist bicycles to its bike share fleet.

6 years ago

Dorothy Johnson-Speight, founder of Mothers in Charge, sitting before a painting of her murdered son, Khaliiq Jabbar Johnson. (Bastiaan Slabbers for Keystone Crossroads)

Keystone Crossroads

Changing Communities

Criminal Justice

From grief to greater understanding: One mother’s quest to heal both sides of the criminal justice divide

Dorothy Johnson-Speight still holds the burden of a mother’s pain. ...

6 years ago

Keystone Crossroads

Philadelphia

Religion

Philadelphia Archdiocese creates independent program to compensate sex abuse victims

The Philadelphia Archdiocese announced Thursday it is creating a program to compensate victims of clergy ...

6 years ago

Gender

Pennsylvania

Religion

After historic elevation, new Lutheran bishop reflects on disintegrating barriers

WHYY's Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with Bishop Patricia Davenport about her new position within the Southeastern Pa. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

6 years ago

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$U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives at a lecture on Sept. 26 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Ginsburg has been hospitalized after falling and fracturing several ribs. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)$

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Aging

Law

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fall, fracturing 3 ribs

6 years ago

The 2017 Tweed Ride in Philadelphia Saturday, November 4, 2017. (©2017 Mark Stehle Photography)

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Community Events

November 7 - 14, 2018

Tweeds and bikes, global films and ‘The Color Purple’

If you love film festivals, you're in luck - this week, there's two.

6 years ago

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People comfort each other outside a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where a gunman opened fire and killed 12.

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Public Safety

12 victims killed in shooting at country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California

A shooter killed 12 people and injured several more at a country music bar in Ventura County, Calif., late Wednesday, police said.

6 years ago

The traffic circle, highlighted as a yellow circle, connects southbound I-295 to Route 29 in New Jersey. This is part of the major overhaul of the intersections in the area as they build a new Scudder Falls bridge. (Google Earth image)

New traffic circle connecting I-295 to Route 29 in New Jersey opens Nov. 8

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6 years ago

Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018, in Eagleville, Pa., following his sentencing to three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Cosby Unraveled

Ep 15: Inmate #NN7687

Comedian Bill Cosby has been imprisoned for three to 10 years for aggravated sexual assault.

Air Date: November 7, 2018

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Community Events

Philadelphia

Communities share stories, ideas over food at ‘On the Table Philly’

Morning edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Ariella Cohen, managing editor of Plan Philly, and Jeanette Woods, community media producer, about 'On the Table Philly.'

6 years ago

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Philadelphia

Race & Ethnicity

After racist threats, a Philly family and neighborhood try to heal

Residents in the Tacony section of Northeast Philadelphia say they're stunned a Hispanic family received a racist note shortly after moving in.

6 years ago

Rachel Garland, a lawyer with Community Legal Services, meets with Craig K. Lee, 53, who has lived at the Arvilla since 2011 and now will have to move. (Courtesy of Neighbors)

Housing

Philadelphia

Broke in Philly

The Penn Alexander effect: Is there any room left for low-income residents in University City?

It's in this corner of the city, where an array of forces have conspired to drive up real estate prices and, in some cases, drive out low-income renters.

6 years ago