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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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 In this file photo, a student shows Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter a sign regarding the looming budget shortfall facing the School District of Philadelphia.  (Nathaniel Hamilton/For NewsWorks)

So many wrong steps led us all to this Philly schools mess

I … don’t … know … what … to say. I don’t know what to say about how tragic the Philadelphia s ...

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Squeezing school $$ from tax delinquents: $28 million is in the balance

12 years ago

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Bill designed to prevent SLAPP legal action nearly finished

12 years ago

 Chris Christie, who is running for re-election, appears in several of the STTS television commercials. (Image from STTS video)

Christie’s ego may send him into a pretty strong storm

Here’s a mortal lock bet for you: Chris Christie will be re-elected governor of New Jersey this fall. But I have a gut feeling his ...

12 years ago

Was Barack Obama ever “a constitutional law professor”?

Matt Damon is only the latest ...

12 years ago

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No halfway for Fumo—straight to the mansion

Former Philadelphia state senator Vince Fumo, now out of prison, won’t spend any time in a halfway house after all. Fumo will spend ...

12 years ago

Today is the 48th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the momentous Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965. The Act was considered a centerpiec ...

12 years ago

N.J. assemblywoman: Don’t hold Trenton hostage over Tony Mack

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack has requested $46 million from the state of New Jersey to rehire laid-off police officers and add new ones. ...

12 years ago

 U.S. Rep. Bob Brady wants Philadelphia to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo, file)

Should Philadelphia compete for 2016 Democratic convention?

Philadelphia U.S. Rep. Bob Brady has convened business and hospitality leaders for a meeting Wednesday to consider mounting a bid to host ...

12 years ago

Philadelphia judge removed from office

The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline has permanently removed a Philadelphia judge from office. Common Pleas Court Judge T ...

12 years ago

 Former State Sen. Vince Fumo delivers remarks at City Hall, in Philadelphia. Fumo, a long-powerful Pennsylvania senator was sentenced to prison in a sprawling corruption case. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

How will former Sen. Fumo adjust to life on the outside?

Vince Fumo.  Remember that name?  The one time kingmaker convicted of multiple counts of corruption will be released from priso ...

13 years ago

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Philly finance director says Council should move on sales tax; Clarke: Council will OK it

Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke’s office said Monday that legislators will make permanent a 1 percent sales tax ...

13 years ago

Metrics can be tricky, but they beat floundering in the dark

More than 600 geeks gathered in Philly last week to make love to WAR. Not war as in the thing with bullets WAR as in W-A-R, the ad ...

13 years ago

Can public officials defy laws with which they disagree? Kane, Haines and Obama

President Obama has publicly announced a policy of refusing to enforce U.S. immigration law against illegal aliens unless they are also c ...

13 years ago

Snowden’s asylum in Russia puts Obama and U.S. in a bad situation

The fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia after five weeks stranded in the internatio ...

13 years ago

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