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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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Emma Turner was granted a new trial on drug charges after identifying an alibi witness, but the new trial was averted because her probation ended as the case was pending. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Defendant’s quest for second look at case can outlast sentence in Philly

Police had their eye on Emma Turner’s Aramingo Avenue house long before November 2006. But that’s when she learned about it. ...

9 years ago

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Plato A. Marinakos Jr., an architect who worked on a botched 2013 building demolition that killed six people, leaves City Hall after opening statements in the civil trial brought by survivors and families of those killed.
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Architect in Philly collapse saw danger of unsupported wall, relied on contractor

Plato Marinakos didn't mince words Monday while on the witness stand.

9 years ago

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Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

‘Truth and reconciliation’ through police transparency in the Black Lives Matter era

A remarkable series of transparency victories in policing has occurred in Chicago over the last year, victories that can inform the gener ...

9 years ago

 Xelba Gutierrez leads a protest demanding that the Democratic National Convention reveal its sources of funding on Thursday, July 21, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Philadelphia
Policing

Recently disclosed DNC insurance policy shows law enforcement’s contempt for protest

With much less fanfare than it received before the Democratic National Convention, the ...

9 years ago

Aerial view of the Fort Lee access lanes onto the George Washington Bridge. (Image via Bing Maps)
Infrastructure
New Jersey
Transportation

The Bridgegate trial is finally here, and hopefully we’ll learn if others knew

When the trial of two former Christie administration staffers for their role in the closing of access lanes to the George Washington Brid ...

9 years ago

Union boss John 'Johnny Doc' Dougherty outside of his home in South Philadelphia during an FBI raid in 2016. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Philadelphia

Updated: FBI searches Johnny Doc’s home, Henon’s City Hall office

State and federal authorities executed search warrants on Friday at several locations connected to influential Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty

10 years ago

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Tyree Carroll holds his daughter (Carroll family photo)
Law
Philadelphia
Policing

Lawyer for Philly man beaten by police accuses officer of trying to discredit client

A Philadelphia police officer who was among the cops filmed beating an unarmed man has been accused of filing trumped-up possession charg ...

10 years ago

Officer Samuel Cruz with the Philadelphia Police Department's recruiting division chats with a would-be recruit at a job fair at Temple University.(Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
Higher Education
Philadelphia
Policing

As quest for new police recruits continues, Philly department scraps college-credit requirement

The Philadelphia Police Department has been ramping up recruitment efforts across job fairs, colleges and on social media, desperate to r ...

10 years ago

Pennsylvania State Police on horses outside Beaver Stadium before an NCAA college football game between the Penn State and the Michigan State in State College
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Policing

Half of Pa. municipalities rely fully on state police

And they don’t pay a dime for it. All taxpayers in Pennsylvania pay for the state police, and the state police serves all ta ...

10 years ago

Attorney David Rudovsky says Philadelphia has made progress  in reining in officers who ignore the city's stop-and-frisk guidelines, but more vigilance is needed.  (AP file  photo)
Philadelphia
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

Report: Thousands of pedestrian stops by Philly police illegal, racially biased

A third of the hundreds of thousands of pedestrian stops Philadelphia police officers conducted last year were done so illegally. More th ...

10 years ago

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Taser's Axon flex and body cameras. (PRNewsFoto/TASER International)
Philadelphia
Policing
Technology

Without bidding, Taser gets contract for Philly’s next phase in police body camera effort

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced ...

10 years ago

The spotlights of rolling cameras hit Bill Cosby's face as he looks up at the media helicopters above him seconds after he leaves Montgomery County Courthouse
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Criminal Justice
National

Norristown comes into focus as Cosby hearing begins

On Tuesday, as preliminary hearings in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial got underway, a swarm of media descended on the Montgomery ...

10 years ago

 Undocumented student Vlad Stoicescu-Ghica, 21, originally from Romania, is shown in this 2014 photograph at the University of California, Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Speak Easy

U.S. citizens miss out when universities assist undocumented students

It was only a matter of time. A recent article in the New York Times has declared, “ ...

11 years ago

 Student protesters are shown putting a barricade in front of a burning armored personnel carrier that rammed through student lines, June 4, 1989. Many were injured and killed during an army attack on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tienanmen Square. (AP Photo, file)
History
International

Tiananmen and the erasure of history

The Chinese government employs falsehood and terror to blot out the memory of the murders in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. And the econo ...

12 years ago

 Philadelphia City Councilman Dennis O'Brien's bill to increase the capital funding to fix up police facilities has been delayed for at least a year. (WHYY file photo)
Philadelphia

Philly Council discussing expanding ‘Focused Deterrence’ strategy

Philadelphia City Council members will meet today to hear about a crime-prevention program that’s showing good early results in Sou ...

12 years ago

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