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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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5 killed, others wounded at Maryland newspaper shooting

A single shooter killed five people Thursday and wounded others at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, and police said a suspect was in custody.

8 years ago

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment last week n Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration was using the tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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As federal court mandates migrant family reunification, Pa. lawyer questions process

For children under 5, the court has ordered reunification within 14 days. How to do so remains a mystery, says a Pennsylvania attorney representing 11 of the migrant kids.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
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NewsWorks Tonight, June 27, 2018

Public sector unions react to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that ...

Air Date: June 27, 2018

Listen 16:26
About 100 newly arrived immigrants listen to a volunteer walk them through the process to seek asylum at a Catholic Charities respite center in McAllen, Texas. (Mose Buchele/KUT)
NPR
Immigration
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Some migrant parents agreeing to self-deport to reunite with children

"They were just so desperate to get back with their kids that they're opting to go this route."

8 years ago

Rendering of a closed Parkway block for The Oval+ 2018
PlanPhilly
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Philadelphia
Public Spaces

The Oval stretches car-free play onto the Parkway this summer

Ashley Hahn checks in on The Oval, a summertime experience geared at making the Parkway better for people.

8 years ago

Listen 4:53
Volunteers and a group of farmers have yielded more than 1.7 million pounds of locally grown produce to Bucks County and beyond for nearly a decade. (Laura Benshoff for The Pulse)
Pennsylvania

Rolling Harvest Food Rescue on front lines of feeding hungry

Rolling Harvest Food Rescue brings fresh fruits and vegetables to food pantries, senior and community centers and mobile farmer's markets across the region.

8 years ago

An environmental cleanup crew works to remove gasoline fuel from an ETP pipeline spill in Darby creek in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, last week. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Environment
Philadelphia

ETP says its pipeline leaked into creek near Philadelphia

Officials installed a boom along the north side of the creek to prevent the spread of gasoline after receiving reports of a sheen on the water last week.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
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Pennsylvania

NewsWorks Tonight, June 26, 2018

A bipartisan report out of the Pennsylvania state General Assembly is fueling ...

Air Date: June 26, 2018

Listen 17:13
Ashley Jimenez filmed as her husband was speaking to police at the Cinemark theater.
Public Spaces
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Theater manager calls cops on black couple retrieving kids

A black family says a Philadelphia movie theater manager called police when they tried to retrieve their children from a theater after getting a refund.

8 years ago

W.D. Ehrhart makes introductions at an event at Fergies's Pub in Center City to celebrate a recently released book of poetry by Vietnam veterans. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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Poetry

Veterans’ poems address psychic wounds of Vietnam

Vietnam vets gather in Center City to share contributions to a new anthology of poetry about the scars of war.

8 years ago

Listen 6:56
Alison Ettel threatened to call the police on a young African-American girl selling water on the sidewalk.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Waiting for sight beyond color

The rash of videotaped incidents in which white people have called police on black people for trivial reasons has reached fever pitch.

8 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney chats with Chung Le, the owner of Pho Saigon Restaurant, in Northeast Philadelphia Monday. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
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Kenney visits Northeast Philly, chats with immigrant entrepreneurs

The mayor's tour was part of an effort to recognize the growing contributions immigrants and their businesses make in that part of Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Map of the state of Pennsylvania showing county boundaries and names, county seats and rivers from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s population quickly becoming older, slowly more diverse

Following national trends, Pennsylvania’s population is getting older and slowly becoming more diverse ...

8 years ago

Veterans and dignitaries, including political consul Yoon Jung Kim of the Republic of Korea, place a wreath in front of the Korean War Memorial at Penn's Landing during a ceremony held annuallly on the anniversary of the start of the war.
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Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Korean War vets gather in Philadelphia to remember ‘Forgotten War’

More than 5 million soldiers and civilians died during the conflict, including more than 600 from the Philadelphia region.

8 years ago

The FBI says reports of sexual assaults on commercial airline flights are on the rise. (Adam Hester/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Social Justice

36,000 feet in the air, flight attendants and passengers say ‘me, too’

About 1 in 5 flight attendants say they have witnessed a passenger being sexually assaulted or had an assault reported to them.

8 years ago

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