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Plastic trash is deposited at the high tide line at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, where local merchants are banned from using plastic straws, styrofoam food containers, and plastic bags. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
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Monmouth Beach ban on plastics — most comprehensive in N.J. — off to smooth start

Merchants say there's been a period of adjustment since the ban started June 1, but most customers are taking it in stride.

7 years ago

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Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church in Southwest Philadelphia has been selected as a prototype for Infill Philadelphia's Sacred Places/Civic Spaces design challenge.
Architecture & Design
Changing Communities

From sacred to civic, new life for old Philly churches

Philadelphia has seen its share of old church buildings neglected and even torn down, but a new collaboration seeks to transform them into community assets.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, July 3, 2018

Philadelphia’s anti-ICE demonstrations turn into an occupation. Former Philadelphia water commissioner Howard Neukrug explains what ...

Air Date: July 3, 2018

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At Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia, children donate books and make bookmarks for kids and immigrant families held at the Berks County Detention Center. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Books
Immigration
Social Justice

Book delivery from Philly kids to federal detention center hits snag

The goal was to provide a token of comfort, escape, to the roughly 20 migrant kids staying at the center in Berks County.

7 years ago

Walking the Ocean City boardwalk. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Infrastructure
New Jersey

Power outage strands some on boardwalk rides

A power outage brought rides at a New Jersey boardwalk to a halt, leaving some passengers stranded.

7 years ago

Demonstrators protest ICE outside of the office at Eighth and Cherry streets in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Immigration
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Overnight protesters stake out ICE building, demand changes in immigration policies

Philadelphia police arrest 29 demonstrators who refused to move from the entrance to the federal facility at Eighth and Cherry streets.

7 years ago

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 Electric power lines (Big Stock photo)
Delaware Business Now
Delaware
Energy

Despite heat, Delmarva Power electric rates going down

The lower rate comes from the utility passing along savings from recently enacted federal tax cuts.

7 years ago

Taney Street is named for the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who wrote the infamous Dred Scott decision. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Law
Social Justice
PlanPhilly

A renewed push to give Taney Street a different name

Taney Street is named after Roger B. Taney, fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of what is arguably its most infamous decision, Dred Scott v. Sanford.

7 years ago

Yared Portillo of Juntos speaks at a rally outside 801 Market St. to call for the closing of the Berks County Residential Center, one of three centers in the country used to detain families whose immigration status is undetermined. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Immigration

Activists clash with Wolf over operation of immigrant detention center

Shut Down Berks Executive Director Sundrop Carter said the group is now urging Governor Tom Wolf to issue an Emergency Removal Order.

7 years ago

Atlantic City beach (Peter Tobia/Atlantic City Alliance)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Cop rescues boy screaming for help in ocean

An Atlantic City police officer rescued a 10-year-old boy on a city beach shortly before sunset last Thursday. 

7 years ago

A pedestrian at Walnut and Juniper streets steps over a pile of debris left behind by a massive water main break in Center City. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Infrastructure
Philadelphia

Water main break sent 15 million gallons of water rushing through downtown Philly

A large water main break flooded a number of streets in downtown Philadelphia early Tuesday.

7 years ago

Protesters rally at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at 8th and Cherry streets after a rally in Philadelphia on June 30. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Social Justice

Instead of looking for attention, demonstrate for change – in voting booth

I cannot help wondering why more of us did not spend 2016 engaging in the most peaceful protest of all – the vote.

7 years ago

Located in a remote spot on the Delaware River tubing route, the Famouse River Hot Dog Man is the only game in town for tubers, whose lazy journeys can last four to six hours.
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
Food & Drink
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

24 days of summer: The business of being the Famous River Hot Dog Man

Since 1987, Greg Crance has run a hot dog stand in the middle of the Delaware River. It's a beautiful office, but a fickle business.

7 years ago

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Cadets color guard members move to the field before their first home performance in 2018. (Jessica Griffin, Inquirer/Daily News)
Gender
Social Justice
Sports

Allentown’s famed Cadets rise again after months of scandal and tumult

Some had worried a #MeToo scandal would be fatal for one of the nation’s oldest and most decorated drum corps.

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, July 2, 2018

The Democratic Party is seeing a surge of socialist-approved candid ...

Air Date: July 2, 2018

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