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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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Politics & Policy

Rep. Madeleine Dean (left) and Bruce Castor (Matt Slocum and Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Government Accountability
Law

Trump impeachment trial makes Montco ‘center of the universe’ as Dean battles Castor

Rep. Madeleine Dean, an impeachment manager, is considered a rising Democratic star. Bruce Castor, a former DA and county commissioner, will defend Trump.

4 years ago

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The number of Wilmington shootings rose in 2019 from a year earlier but were far below the record bloodshed of 2017. (WHYY file)
Delaware
Government Accountability
Gun Violence

Is gun violence a health crisis in Delaware? Republicans say ‘no’

Republican state senators bristle at a resolution calling Delaware’s gun violence a public health crisis. Don’t “pick on” guns, says one GOP lawmaker.

4 years ago

Frank Dermody speaks at a podium
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

How some Pa. lawmakers score a ‘golden parachute’ to pad their pensions

Ex-state legislators are frequently on the shortlist to join Pennsylvania’s Gaming Control Board, which boasts an annual salary of $145,000.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman speaks at a news conference
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pa. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is officially running for U.S. Senate

The Western Pa. Democrat is the first major candidate to officially launch a campaign for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2022.

4 years ago

Officers at the Cumberland County Prison walk the halls
Criminal Justice
Law
National

Big challenge: Biden is pressed to end federal death penalty

Joe Biden is the first sitting president to openly oppose the death penalty. Here's a look at the steps Biden could take and the challenges he would face.

4 years ago

Pro-Trump insurrectionists gather outside the Capitol
Law
National
Politics

5 key questions for Trump’s Senate impeachment trial

A look at five key questions about what to expect when senators hear the case against the former president in the very chamber that was besieged by insurrectionists.

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
National

Biden’s dilemma in virus aid fight: Go big or go bipartisan

For Biden, working with Republicans is as much a point of personal pride as it is good politics.

4 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf addresses the press. in Harrisburg.
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Pa. voters will get the last word in struggle between Wolf and lawmakers. Here’s what you need to know.

The state House on Friday gave final approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give state lawmakers the power to unilaterally end disaster declarations

4 years ago

Lt. Gov. John Fetterman gavels in a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate before Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year, Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania

Sitting on $1.4 million in campaign cash, Fetterman takes another step toward U.S. Senate

The Pa. lieutenant governor and his staff say the filing was simply procedural: He’d raised too much money to continue operating under his existing exploratory committee.

4 years ago

A pedestrian walks by the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Economy
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pennsylvania lawmakers advance $912M pandemic relief bill

The money will go to aid hospitality-related businesses hit hard by the coronavirus, private schools and people struggling to pay rent or utility bills.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley addresses the media
Philadelphia
Public Health

‘I don’t have all the answers’: Health commissioner ducks questions at Philly Fighting COVID hearings

Kenney administration officials have been declining to answer questions, citing the ongoing inspector general investigation. It’s not a valid excuse, the IG’s office said.

4 years ago

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks back to her office after speaking on the floor of the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Elections
National
Politics

Dem-led House, drawing a line, kicks Greene off committees

A fiercely divided House has tossed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees.

4 years ago

President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. The president was returning from Texas. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Government Accountability

House Dems ask Trump to testify under oath in Senate trial

The request from House impeachment managers make clear their intent to present an aggressive case against the former president even though he has left the White House.

4 years ago

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wears a
Radio Times
Elections
Politics

The post-Trump Republican Party

First, a look at the Congressional vote to strip controversial new member Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee appointments. Then, what's ahead for the post-Trump GOP?

Air Date: February 4, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:30
Pennsylvania Secretary Kathy Boockvar, wearing a face mask, addresses the media from behind a podium
Elections
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

What the exit of Pa.’s top election official means for the future of voting

Sec. Kathy Boockvar’s resignation has emboldened her fiercest GOP critics, even though it was not related to her handling of the closely watched vote in a battleground state.

4 years ago

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