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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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Pennsylvania
Politics

Independent Fiscal Office assesses Wolf’s budget proposal

Most of the revenue estimates check out. If Wolf can figure out how to get his ideas past the GOP-controlled General Assembly.

8 years ago

A woman walks past a Wells Fargo location in view of City Hall, left, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017.
National
Personal Finance

Wells Fargo to pay $1B for mortgage, auto lending abuses

Wells Fargo has been under intense scrutiny by federal regulators for several months.

8 years ago

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
New Jersey
Politics
Visual Arts

Christie commissions $85K portrait

The cost detail was obtained through an open records request.

8 years ago

The Thomas Fire advanced toward Santa Barbara County on Dec. 10, 2017 in Carpinteria, Calif. (David McNew/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment

As climate costs grow, some see a moneymaking opportunity

Predicting how climate change will alter the weather is becoming a flourishing business.

8 years ago

FILE - This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
National

Taxpayers get 1-day extension due to IRS glitch

The IRS is giving all taxpayers an extra day to file after its website went down on deadline day. The agency announced that indivi ...

8 years ago

The Internal Revenue Service's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2016
NPR

It’s tax day. And the IRS’ online payment service is down

The Internal Revenue Service is experiencing computer trouble on Tax Day, leaving Americans unable to view their tax record or make tax payments as the clock ticks down toward

8 years ago

Starbucks chief executive officer Kevin Johnson and chief operating officer Rosalind Brewer emerge from a meeting with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney that they said was
PlanPhilly

By admitting fault in arrest of two black men at Rittenhouse Starbucks, company may spare itself long-term damage to brand

In the wake the fiasco, Starbucks has scrambled to respond

8 years ago

Sallie Mae Chairman and CEO Raymond Quinlan, center, attends the opening bell ceremony with guests and employees at the Nasdaq MarketSite, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, in New York. The company, which offers private education loans, is headquartered in Newark, Del. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Delaware
Economy

Sallie Mae expands in Delaware, promising 300 more jobs

The student loan company is opening a second office in Delaware, which will be home to more than 500 jobs.

8 years ago

Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Energy
New Jersey

With nuke plant shutting down, N.J. community inherits 1.7M pounds of waste

After U.S. plan to dispose of spent fuel rods fails, Lacey Township wants compensation for holding the radioactive waste from the Oyster Creek plant.

8 years ago

Listen 5:32
Daniele Schillaci, head of global sales and marketing and also the Zero Emission Vehicle and Battery Business for Nissan, speaks during the world premiere in Chiba, near Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. Nissan's new Leaf electric car goes father on a charge and comes with autonomous drive technology and single-pedal driving. But whether it can catch on with anyone but the most zealously green-minded remains to be seen. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
Environment
New Jersey
Transportation

New Jersey considering offering rebates to boost electric car sales

A New Jersey lawmaker is proposing cash rebates to get more people to buy electric cars.

8 years ago

Park rangers meet in front of Yosemite Falls in 2016 in Yosemite National Park in California. Increased fees are expected to boost funding for park maintenance across the country. (David Calvert/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
National

National Park Service to ‘modestly’ raise entrance fees in plan to cut repair backlog

The Interior Department is abandoning a plan to more than double entrance fees to some of the country's most popular national parks.

8 years ago

Richard Wahl speaks during a news conference introducing him as the $533 million Mega Millions jackpot winner at the New Jersey Lottery headquarters, Friday, April 13, 2018, in Trenton, N.J. Wahl hit the winning numbers during the Friday, March 30 drawing on a ticket he bought at a gas station in Riverdale, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
New Jersey

N.J. lottery winner says he wants to help others with part of $317 million

On the second time he ever played the lottery, North Jersey man hits the multimillion-dollar jackpot.

8 years ago

This May 22, 2007 file photo shows FirstEnergy's Bruce Mansfield plant in Shippingport, Pa., northwest of Pittsburgh. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo, File)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
National
Politics

FirstEnergy: If feds don’t help us, more power plants will close. Trump’s thinking about it

FirstEnergy filed for bankruptcy last month and plans to close three nuclear plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Economy
Politics

Why economics and politics don’t mix

Guest: Alan Blinder By all accounts, the U.S. economy is strong. But, will this strength continue? The federal bu ...

Air Date: April 13, 2018

Listen 49:47
This Jan. 31, 2018, photo shows a dealer conducting a game of roulette at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City N.J. Atlantic City's seven casinos saw their gross operating profits increase by 22.5 percent last year, to $723 million. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Economy
New Jersey

Atlantic City casino earnings up 22.5 percent in 2017

Less competition has led to higher profits for Atlantic City's casinos in 2017 — but will it last with two more casinos soon to join the mix?

8 years ago

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