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Teamwork, compassion, trust underpin Tom Gardiner’s TV news work

Does your morning routine include turning on the TV to catch a few minutes of Philly news for the day? If you’re like me, you ...

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Better workplace relationships through ‘sweatworking,’ not networking

Where do you find yourself bonding best with work colleagues? Coffee in the break room, lunch in the park, corporate dinners? How about t ...

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Police, businesses, urban planners and residents can build safer communities together

My mother was a very compassionate and faithful volunteer in the community and our church. I want to live and leave that same sweet fragrance of integrity and kindness.

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 Workers use blowers during the cleanup process along Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia a day after Pope Francis concluded his 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
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Are taxpayers on the hook for higher pope costs? The city isn’t saying

Philadelphia’s budget director says the city spent roughly $17 million on welcoming Pope Francis to town, about $5 million more tha ...

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Overcoming police brutality starts with positive community interaction

I have learned to not view all officers as "bad cops." However, society does not understand that we cannot say #AllLivesMatter until everyone understands #BlackLivesMatter.

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 'Religious Diversity in the Workplace' panelists, from left: Nicole Diroff, Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia; Rue Landau, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations and the Fair Housing Commission; Kameelah Rashad, Muslim WellnessFoundation; Cecily Carel, Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy. (Susan Richardson/for NewsWorks)

The new age of HR, beyond accommodating religious practices

“Human Resources” — the term probably trips off your tongue, it’s such a natural part of our work worlds. I was at an ...

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 U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger speaks in March about the Department of Justice recommendations for reforming the use of deadly force by police in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Police officers and the people they protect must make closer bonds

As the United States becomes more diverse, the role of the police becomes more dynamic and challenging, but I believe we have moved too far from the original intent.

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 Pope Francis arrives at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. The Pope will spend the last two of his six days in the U.S. in Philadelphia as the star attraction at the World Meeting of Families, a conference for more than 18,000 people from around the world that has been underway as the pope traveled to Washington and New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Five things Philly officials learned from Pope Francis’ visit

It’s been more than a month since Pope Francis’s visit to Philadelphia, when talk of traffic boxes and fences ruled the local ...

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Community Policing 101: A safer neighborhood requires neighbor involvement

The foundation of community policing rests upon three building blocks: community leaders, community participation, and governmental agencies.

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Mayor-elect Kenney’s transition team meets the press

The day after mayor-elect Jim Kenney released the names of all members of his massive transition team, he brought some of them to meet th ...

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Mayor-elect Kenney revisits school to reiterate plan for citywide pre-K [photos]

The day after winning the Philadelphia mayor’s race, Jim Kenney returned to a public elementary school he visited on the campaign t ...

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Your email is killing your multitasking productivity

You’re hunkered down at your computer working on a spreadsheet or a meeting outline or a legal brief or poetry. You hit a thicket i ...

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Anti-violence group releases rap video for Murray Bailey

Campaign raps are definitely becoming a thing in Philadelphia. Ori Feibush ...

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Love thy neighbors — because you can’t divorce them

We knew the neighbors had become true friends when they came to help us say goodbye to the old refrigerator. Here’s the stor ...

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Requiem premier expresses bottomless grief of gun violence

Music can speak to the yearnings that grief leaves inside us in a way that words alone cannot. I recently found another reminder of that ...

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