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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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Shoppers gaze into the window of City Blue in Center City Philadelphia (Darryl C. Murphy/WHYY).
Business

Brick-and-mortar stores still viable with Philly shoppers

That phenomenon of watching customers check items out in person, only to order them online is a serious challenge for retailers, and it has fed some shake-ups in the industry.

8 years ago

Casey Grogan walks through some recently cut noble fir Christmas trees at his farm near Silverton, Ore. This year he plans to harvest 60,000 trees off his property. (Anna King/Northwest News Network)
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Business
National

Real and fake Christmas tree sellers fight for American hearts and minds

This Christmas shopping season, a marketing war for families' hearts is escalating between the real and artificial tree industries.

8 years ago

Shoppers pass through the new indoor luxury thoroughfare that now connects both buildings of the King of Prussia Mall on  Black Friday in Pennsylvania November 23rd 2018. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Business

The marathon known as ‘Black Friday’ actually has its roots in Philadelphia

Updated 1:07 p.m.  The Thanksgiving turkey barely had a chance to digest before the “opportunity” to ...

8 years ago

In this July, 5, 2018, file photo, a rubber tire gantry operator climb steps to his cab at the start of his work shift at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. (Stephen B. Morton/AP Photo)
International

Darkening clouds start to overhang global economic expansion

After galloping along for the past two years, the global economy is showing signs of weakening.

8 years ago

An Eagles fan takes in the city from the top of the steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, also known as the Rocky steps. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Business
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Economy
Philadelphia

Talkin’ ’bout agglomeration

Philadelphia didn't get the nod for the location of Amazon's second headquarters. But that doesn't mean that the city's 100-page bid was a complete waste of time.

Air Date: November 19, 2018

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Pennsylvania
Politics

State IFO projects Pa.’s smooth budget year is coming to an end

Pennsylvania's revenue watchdog is predicting state lawmakers will have to fill a sizable budget hole for the next fiscal year.

8 years ago

Ford is buying electric scooter company Spin in what experts say is the biggest investment of an automaker into
NPR
Technology
Transportation

Why Ford is getting into the scooter business

8 years ago

Roxborough Memorial Hospital emergency entrance.
Business
Health Care
Philadelphia

ER doctors worked without pay for weeks as three Philly area hospitals changed management

At the end of October, Lower Bucks, Roxborough Memorial and Suburban Community hospitals abruptly ended their contract with the staffing ...

8 years ago

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 Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's Seattle headquarters. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
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Philadelphia
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PlanPhilly

Wharton prof: No amount of money would’ve swung Amazon

This article originally appeared on ...

8 years ago

Expensive gene therapies could change the way we pay for medicines, such as making incremental payments over time (Katherine Streeter for NPR)
NPR
Health Care
National

A search for new ways to pay for drugs that cost a mint

Researchers expect that three dozen new drugs will come on the market over the next few years with astronomical prices — some likely topping a million dollars per patient.

8 years ago

People carry a cooler while strolling at the boardwalk on their way to a beach spot at the New Jersey shore, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in Seaside Heights, N.J. (Julio Cortez / AP Photo)
Environment
New Jersey
Real Estate
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Homeowners down the shore stand to lose millions from sea level rise

Knowledge of sea level rise has not stopped building in vulnerable areas along the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.

8 years ago

 A file shot of Philadelphia's submission to Amazon HQ2's RFP. (Design Advocacy Group)
PlanPhilly
Business
Philadelphia
Technology
PlanPhilly

State, city offered Amazon a $5.7 billion incentive package to build Philly HQ2

Until now, Mayor Jim Kenney and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf have refused to discuss details of the incentives offered in their HQ2 proposal.

8 years ago

People in shaddow walk past a geometric building (Amazon's Seattle HQ)
PlanPhilly
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Philadelphia
Politics
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PlanPhilly

Philly’s Amazon HQ2 loss could be a long-term win for city, experts say

Mayor Jim Kenney responded to the news with a thank you to Amazon.

8 years ago

Listen 1:57
Amazon has wrapped its search for HQ2. (Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Business
Economy

Amazon’s grand search for 2nd headquarters ends with split: NYC and D.C. suburb

Amazon's HQ2 is getting divided by two.

8 years ago

In a photo taken Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in Bayonne, N.J., Lenny Sciascia, (right), and his friend Mario DeAngelis look at betting lines for the day's sporting events before placing bets in a parking lot just off the Bayonne Bridge, which divides New York and New Jersey. Sciascia, who lives in Staten Island, N.Y., commutes regularly to places his bets from New Jersey, where online betting is legal. With sports betting being advertised all around them but the opportunity to actually do it restricted to just one nearby state, gamblers from New York and Pennsylvania are crossing bridges and tunnels into New Jersey to make legal sports bets. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Sports

Wagerers crossing the Delaware (and Hudson) for sports bets

It's the only game in, or rather near, town right now for people in New York and Pennsylvania who want to bet.

8 years ago

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