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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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 Andrea Adleman rides one of Wash Cycle Laundry's special delivery trikes. The company is expanding to Washington, D.C., its second market. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
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City Hall send-off for Wash Cycle Laundry’s D.C. expansion

After three and a half years of lugging laundry by bike, Philadelphia’s Wash Cycle Laundry is expanding to Washington, D.C. ...

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 American Certified only sells products made in the U.S. It currently offers more than  1.7 million American-made items for sale. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
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American Certified winnows U.S.-made products for e-shoppers

A new business in Philadelphia wants to make it much easier to “buy American” online.  ...

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Stalled NJ offshore wind project wins $47 million federal grant

A proposed offshore wind project in New Jersey has received a new breath of life. Fishermen’s Energy has won a $47 million g ...

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UberX enters South Jersey, but ride-sharing holdout Philly must wait

Uber’s low-cost ride-sharing service, UberX, is ...

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Yes, Pfizer wants to take over AstraZeneca

Pfizer confirmed Monday via press release that, yes, it is trying to gobble up fellow drugmaker AstraZeneca. Pfizer confirmed Mond ...

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Wharton expert: New FCC open-Internet rules won’t touch Comcast — for now

A new set of proposed open Internet rules from the head of the Federal Communications Commission could alter the way traffic flows online ...

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Why are there 57 varieties of everything?

These days, there are more choices than ever, and it’s both wonderful and exhausting. We’re modern. We’re hip. So we th ...

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Job jitters over possible Pfizer takeover of AstraZeneca

A report out of London on Sunday put pharma company AstraZene ...

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Geeks to gather in South Jersey

Comic books, music, video games — Saturday is the first-ever South Jersey Geek Fest ...

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 Mayor Michael Nutter first announcing the Startup PHL program in October 2012. (Zack Seward/WHYY, file)
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City to bankroll internships, workshops to boost Philly tech scene

The city of Philadelphia is bankrolling tech internships and workshops, using a series of grants to local firms. “What we wa ...

11 years ago

 Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News ranks Philadelphia seventh among U.S. biopharma clusters. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)
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Trade mag ranks Philadelphia 7th among U.S. biopharma clusters

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News says Philadelphia is great at landing federal research dollars. But turning research finding ...

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 Banana ripening rooms at the Philadelphia Wholesale Produce Market feature special climate controls to make sure thousands of boxes of bananas ripen evenly. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Where East Coast bananas go to ripen

For one of the nation’s largest banana wholesalers, ripening is an exact science. It’s ...

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This year’s Tech Week show stopper? Tetris on the Cira Centre

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 Mayor Michael Nutter at TEDxPhiladelphia 2011. (Photo courtesy of TEDxPhiladelphia)
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TEDxPhiladelphia is back. Here’s who’s speaking

After a two-year hiatus TEDxPhiladelphia is back. The independently produced “ideas conference” will take place at Tem ...

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