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Each program mixes interviews with guest travel experts, your call-ins with questions and comments, and music. We talk about our favorite travels in Europe, as well as travel anywhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
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Each program mixes interviews with guest travel experts, your call-ins with questions and comments, and music. We talk about our favorite travels in Europe, as well as travel anywhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Listen to young people about the issues that affect their lives

We often hear that we, the youth, are the future — a true statement, considering that we are next in line for the positions held currently by our elders.

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Kimutai Cheruiyot of Kenya wins the men's division and set a course record with a time of 2:15:32. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
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Wind-whipped athletes blow through Philly marathon in record time

Battling through whipping winds and plummeting temperatures, runners from around the world made the 26.2-mile trek at the 23rd annual Phi ...

10 years ago

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ZIP Photo Essay: Life Around The Liberty Bell in Old City, 19106

ZIP code 19106 includes portions of several prominent Philadelphia neighborhoods. Search for it on Google Maps and you’ll see its easte ...

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Watch the WHYY original production: Veterans Coming Home

Watch tonight at 9pm on WHYY-TV. Today’s veterans look for new ways to take the lessons of their military service back to the civil ...

10 years ago

 Government officials attend a ceremony for the raising of the final steel beam at Holtec International. The company got $260 million in tax incentives to build its manufacturing plant in Camden. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Was N.J. ‘betting on wrong horse’ in giving Holtec $260M tax break for Camden move?

When energy company Holtec International ...

10 years ago

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The William Penn Annex Post Office occupies the first floor of the federal courthouse at 9th and Market. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Today would be the 100th birthday of the Penn Annex’s handsomest mailman — my dad

I’ll miss William Penn Annex. The Center City post office, stretching from Market to Chestnut along 9th Street, ...

10 years ago

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Penn’s ‘Dia de los Muertos’ a joyful celebration of life and death

The Penn Museum held their annual Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, celebration on Saturday. The holiday originated in Mex ...

10 years ago

It’s all about the training; veterans take to the soil and learn to farm

Veteran training covers may aspects once military service is over.  But farming? 44 percent of the men and women who enlist c ...

10 years ago

Veterans reflect on their service during day out at The Adventure Aquarium

What’s the worst question you can ask a veteran? “Did you kill anybody?” As part of the Veterans Coming Home pro ...

10 years ago

Ralph HIrshorn
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Philadelphia

Cinema Paradiso: Ralph Hirshorn Shares His Love of Film With Chestnut Hill, 19118

Ralph S. Hirshorn is sitting in his personal movie theater and laughing about Purple Rain. The septuagenarian resident of ...

10 years ago

Gabriela Sanchez in the role of a soldier that has been sexually assaulted in the military in the play 'She Wore Those Boots' by Erlina Ortiz (Photo courtesy of Power Street Theater Company)

‘She Wore Those Boots’ confronts military sexual assault, on base and in the family

In a small theater at the edge of Northern Liberties, a play is taking on sexual assault in the military. On stage a mother, her g ...

10 years ago

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Camden Pop-Warner team adds girl-power to the lineup

This fall, second grader Janiyah Hill–who regularly goes toe-to-toe at home with her ten-year old brother Izayah, a ...

10 years ago

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New Jersey

Feds say New Jersey may have to pay back $43 million in Superstorm Sandy aid

The troubled rollout three years ago of a Hurricane Sandy rebuilding aid program continues to dog Gov. Chris Christie, with auditors and ...

10 years ago

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Gas drillers need to work with our communities, not against them

I was disappointed to hear that the Marcellus Shale Coalition is already ...

10 years ago

The Fairmount Park Conservancy holds its annual fundraiser at the Palazzo on the Parkway, the former Boy Scout headquarters that fell into the city's hands because the scouts refused to admit gays. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
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Palazzo on the Parkway has a coming out party

The former Boy Scouts of America Cradle of Liberty Council headquarters on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway was host to the Fairmount Park C ...

10 years ago

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