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Derrick Eberhart, whose brother was murdered, sits  on his front porch in Nicetown (Philadelphia Tribune/John Mitchell)
Income Inequality
Policing
Social Justice
Broke in Philly

Breaking poverty: Crime, poverty often linked

Three of the poorest ZIP codes in the city are responsible for almost a third of the city’s homicides since January 2013.

7 years ago

A Senate committee has advanced a measure to give New Jersey towns double credits toward their obligation to ensure adequate housing if they buy foreclosed residential properties, then convert them into affordable housing. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
Housing
New Jersey

N.J. trying again on plan to recycle foreclosed homes into affordable housing

Activists say the plan would be a step forward in the state’s slow recovery from the foreclosure crisis.

7 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden and his family join state leaders at the Delaware Welcome Center on I-95 near Newark Monday morning. The welcome center was renamed in the family's honor. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware

Biden name will welcome millions of travelers to Delaware

Delaware continues to honor favorite son Joe Biden. The Delaware welcome center on I-95 is the latest facility to be renamed in honor of the former vice president.

7 years ago

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African-American leaders are calling for an end to violence in the city. Mel Wells, who runs the same group One Day at a Time, said generations of men are being killed. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

African-American leaders call for cease-fire on Philadelphia streets

Group organizers push for stronger community ties to help bring an end to the rampant gunfire that claims victims almost daily.

7 years ago

Offshore wind turbines are seen in this file image. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)
Down the Shore
Economic Development
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
Technology

N.J. begins nation’s largest single-state solicitation of offshore wind projects

New Jersey officials on Monday kicked off the nation's largest single-state solicitation of offshore wind projects.

7 years ago

Members of the Coast Guard Shallow-Water Response team escort utility workers to a flooded substation to inspect transformers in Newport, N.C., on Sunday.
NPR
Environment
Public Safety

Florence death toll rises to 23 as rivers continue to flood in N.C. and S.C.

People in North Carolina and South Carolina are coping with flooding, closed roads and power outages as they assess damage from Hurricane Florence

7 years ago

Melissa Alam is the creator of Fearless Con, a two-day conference that empowers women in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia

Frustrated by ‘unrelatable’ conferences, Philly woman creates her own

I looked at the lineup and it was all men, primarily white men speaking and I was like, 'Why would I attend this conference if I can't even see myself in any of the speakers?'

7 years ago

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Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. It shut down in September 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Down the Shore
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Oyster Creek, nation’s oldest nuclear power plant, shuts down Monday

The nation's oldest nuclear power point is shutting down permanently Monday.

7 years ago

Vox photo editor Kainaz Amaria thinks it's time the photojournalism world reckons with what she sees as an industry-wide culture of sexual harassment with roots in a glaring gender imbalance. (Nick Oza/Courtesy of Kainaz Amaria)
NPR
Media
National

Photojournalists are demanding a #MeToo reckoning

Amaria argues that her male-dominated field creates a "toxic culture" that silences women in the profession and has kept a full reckoning from taking place.

7 years ago

Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia is celebrating its 125th anniversary. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Reading Terminal Market celebrates 125 years as melting pot of tastes, cultures

This year, as the iconic Reading Terminal Market turns 125 years old, it’s a great time to celebrate the Market’s role in the life of ...

7 years ago

The late philanthropist H.F. 'Gerry' Lenfest, center, who died in August. The Lenfest Institute and the Knight Foundation are teaming up to give $20 million to strengthen local journalism in Philadelphia and other cities across the country. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia

Knight Foundation, Lenfest Institute announce new $20M fund for local journalism

The nonprofits announced Sunday evening that they are each putting $10 million towards a 5-year effort to strengthen local news for the digital age starting in 2019.

7 years ago

Firefighters battle a fire in flood ravaged Bound Brook, New Jersey during Tropical Storm Floyd in Sept. 1999.
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

19 years ago today, Tropical Storm Floyd dumped excessive rainfall, spurring record flooding in N.J.

The Jersey Shore was spared significant impacts — courtesy of heavy rain focused inland, non-damaging winds, and minor coastal flooding.

7 years ago

Rabbi Linda Holtzman, center, led a Tashlich ceremony in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. (Darryl C. Murphy for WHYY)
Immigration
Philadelphia
Social Justice

In Philly, ‘Abolish ICE’ protests meet the Jewish high holidays

In Philadelphia, demonstrators gathered Sunday to use a Jewish tradition to protest ICE’s enforcement of immigration policy and urge the agency to repent.

7 years ago

Google image.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Police: Wave may have broken neck of man that died in rough surf

Authorities say a man died in an apparent drowning while swimming in rough water off a beach at the New Jersey shore.

7 years ago

A man wades through flooded streets during a No. 10 Hurricane Signal raised for Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong on Sunday. (Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment

Typhoon Mangkhut makes landfall in China after dozens killed in Philippines

7 years ago

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