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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Harris was scheduled to travel Thursday to North Carolina for events encouraging voters to cast early ballots.

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Gisele Fetterman opens flowers at Hollander's in Braddock, Pa. Hollander's is a co-working space and business incubator for minority, female entrepreneurs from Braddock and surrounding Mon Valley communities on Sept. 19, 2019. (Sean Simmers/PennLive)
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Pennsylvania’s Second Lady / A history of contested elections

First, Gisele Baretto Fetterman discusses the racist incident she suffered that went viral. Then, we'll learn about previous examples of contested elections in the U.S.

Air Date: October 15, 2020 10:00 am

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Map: Philly to open more than 700 polling places for the November 2020 election

That’s nearly four times as many as were open for the June primary.

6 years ago

a 2020 census envelope
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Census whiplashed by changing deadlines, accuracy concerns

By sticking to the Dec. 31 deadline, the Trump administration would end up controlling the numbers used for the apportionment, no matter who wins next month’s election.

6 years ago

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Philadelphia sanitation workers have joined their peers in cities across the U.S. in the call for hazard pay.

6 years ago

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Pennsylvania
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Accidental email told Montco voters their ballots were in the mail when they weren’t

County and state officials say an accidental email told voters ballots were on their way weeks too early.

6 years ago

downtown Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
Travel

Majority of City Council supports giving laid-off tourism workers first dibs on jobs

Under the banner of “Black Workers Matter,” councilmembers announced a slate of proposed changes to help hospitality workers regain jobs lost to COVID.

6 years ago

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham
Elections
Explainers
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Election update: Senate races to watch

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6 years ago

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Government Accountability

Election update: voter suppression

First up on Wednesday’s Radio Times, Marty will speak with Mother Jones reporter  ...

6 years ago

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This unofficial mailer arrived at Chris' home the same day my 2020 ballot was returned, unopened and uncounted
Elections
Pennsylvania
Billy Penn

The circular journey of one uncounted 2020 Pennsylvania mail ballot

Apparently it was dropped into the postal sorter backwards?

6 years ago

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham
Radio Times
Elections
National

Election update: voter suppression, and Senate races to watch

Marty talks with Mother Jone's Ari Berman about the ways access to voting is being suppressed, then we hear about the pivotal Senate races.

Air Date: October 14, 2020 10:00 am

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Sussex County criminal defense attorney Julianne Murray (Murray for Delaware) and Delaware Gov. John Carney (Office of Gov. John Carney)
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Carney’s GOP challenger says Delaware COVID-19 shutdown based on fear

Republican Julianne Murray said Delaware needs to step back from coronavirus fear in her challenge to incumbent Gov. John Carney.

6 years ago

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Pennsylvania

Ballot applications from outside groups confuse some voters as deadline looms

While some of those groups have checked with the state to ensure accuracy of their mail-in applications, others have not, and it is not required that they do so.

6 years ago

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Housing
Pennsylvania
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To jumpstart relief program, Wolf gives landlords more flexibility to collect unpaid rent

Landlords will no longer be required to forgive all payments owed in return for accepting state aid, which is capped at $750, much lower than average rent in many areas.

6 years ago

Ken Smukler outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Billy Penn

Bob Brady’s convicted political guru is out of prison — and lurking on the election sidelines

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6 years ago

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