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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

Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki and Councilman Ernest
Delaware
Elections
Politics

After 4 fractious years, Wilmington mayor and new council president pledge cooperation

As a councilman, Trippi Congo was part of what Mayor Purzycki calls the “resistance.” Tuesday Congo ousted a Purzycki ally to win the council presidency.

6 years ago

Marisa Shuter, the landlord tenant officer for Municipal Court. (Facebook)
PlanPhilly
Government Accountability
Housing
Philadelphia

City Council to investigate officer that executes court’s evictions, citing ‘conflicts of interest’

The court-appointed lawyer employs armed deputies to perform lockouts.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
Income Inequality
New Jersey
Taxes

Murphy, N.J. lawmakers agree to raise taxes on millionaires

Democratic leaders in the legislature have resisted the tax hike since Murphy became governor, but say the pandemic changed their minds.

6 years ago

Residents from St. Joseph's Senior Home are helped on to buses in Woodbridge
Aging
New Jersey
Public Health

N.J. enacts 4 laws aimed at nursing homes after coronavirus response

Long-term care residents account for roughly half of the state’s more than 14,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths, according to state Health Department figures.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Hispanic Heritage Month event, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Elections

Trump fuels spread of altered Biden video, tweeting it twice

The video appears to show Biden playing a controversial song by the rap group N.W.A. during a campaign trip to Florida.

6 years ago

A REAL ID driver’s license sample for Pennsylvania. (PennDOT)
Pennsylvania
Streets & Roads

Pa. coronavirus recovery: REAL ID service to resume

Pennsylvania residents can update their driver’s licenses to meet federal standards for the first time since March.

6 years ago

Protesters hold signs about the 2020 census at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
NPR
Government Accountability
Immigration
National

Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court over blocked census memo

Trump is attempting to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers used to determine each state's share of seats in Congress.

6 years ago

A person drops into a mail box applications for mail-in ballots
Delaware
Elections

Record turnout in Delaware primary shows Dems much more willing to vote-by-mail

More than half of Delaware Democrats voted by mail. For Republicans, less than 25% of ballots were mailed in.

6 years ago

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield holds up his mask as he speaks at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a “Review of Coronavirus Response Efforts” on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Health Care
Public Health

US outlines sweeping plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccines

Federal health agencies and the Defense Department sketched out complex plans for a vaccination campaign to begin gradually in January or even late this year.

6 years ago

Former Trump Campaign official Michael Caputo, center, joined by his attorney Dennis C. Vacco, right, leaves after a three-hour interview by Senate Intelligence Committee staff that is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Government Accountability
Public Health

Trump appointee taking medical leave from HHS after accusations of political meddling

The Trump appointee also was accused of trying to muzzle a scientific weekly put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

6 years ago

NPR
Government Accountability
National
Public Safety

Congressional inquiry faults Boeing and FAA failures for deadly 737 Max plane crashes

An investigation into the plane finds a "disturbing pattern" of Boeing design flaws, management failures and "grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA."

6 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, (R-Jefferson), walks through the Pennsylvania Capitol. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Government Accountability
Media
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Top Pa. Republican’s campaign sues journalists over public records costs

Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati's campaign is seeking $6,070 from The Caucus, Caucus Bureau Chief Brad Bumsted, and Spotlight PA reporter Angela Couloumbis.

6 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney
Delaware
Elections

Delaware primary: Wilmington Mayor Purzycki wins second term; Julianne Murray will face Gov. Carney

Mike Purzycki won a second term Tuesday night, fending off a pair of challengers. U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and New Castle County Exec. Matt Meyer also were winners.

6 years ago

Trump supporters and protesters clashed on Independence Mall ahead of a visit from President Trump. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Elections
National

Trump tries to woo undecided voters in Philly; competing rallies break out nearby

As Trump talked to undecided voters in Philly, competing protests flared up outside, with Trump detractors outnumbering supporters.

6 years ago

For the second Sunday since restrictions were lifted, Catholic churches in the Philadelphia archdiocese gathered for in-person services in June 2020. (Ximena Conde/WHYY News)
Pennsylvania
Religion

Pa. House votes to bar shutting down churches in disasters

“Is now the time to lock up churches?” asked House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster. “Is now the time to not allow people to assemble?"

6 years ago

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