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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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Urban Planning

Sunflowers in a garden
PlanPhilly
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Real Estate

Philly City Council passes Land Bank acquisition bill considered key to garden land security

Advocates say the bill preserves an important tool for protecting garden land from development.

1 year ago

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Rowhouses in Philadelphia’s Spring Garden neighborhood
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

‘A huge deterrent effect’: Philly City Council seeks to strengthen anti-discrimination law

The Fair Practices Ordinance prohibits landlords from rejecting potential tenants based on how they would pay rent.

1 year ago

Wilmington's port
Delaware
Infrastructure
Transportation

‘Game changer’ for Wilmington port: New $635M terminal to bring mammoth ships, thousands of jobs

The existing port has been operational for a century, but it can’t handle the 1,000-foot ships like the one that destroyed Baltimore’s Key Bridge.

1 year ago

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Benjamin Rush State Park entrance sign
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Sports

Bow hunting in Philly could begin as soon as this fall

A site in the far northeast could be used for bow hunting later this fall under regulations from the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

1 year ago

Downtown business district.
Housing
Pennsylvania

Coatesville could soon see its first rental housing development in more than a decade

If the five-person planning commission votes ‘yes,’ Brandywine View Apartments will break ground on 266 market-rate rental units.

1 year ago

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SEPTA bus passes through the intersection of N 17th and JFK Boulevard.
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA’s board of directors approves Bus Revolution, set to go into effect next summer

Portions of the new network, which trims the number of routes from 125 to 106, will launch on June 1, 2025, and continue through the fall.

1 year ago

Philadelphia City Hall
PlanPhilly
Government
Housing
Philadelphia

City Council advances bill to make Philly’s Eviction Diversion Program permanent

The heralded program is scheduled to expire at the end of June if the measure doesn’t become law.

1 year ago

Listen 1:00
Tree on the park grounds
Changing Communities
Environment
Pennsylvania

From Don Guanella to Delco Woods — to mental health facility? The dispute over Delaware County’s largest park

Delaware County Council is at odds with Marple Township over the county’s attempt to assess a building on the site for possible use as a mental health facility.

1 year ago

Listen 1:39
Joe Biden
Energy
National

Biden releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from Northeast reserve in bid to lower prices at pump

The sale is from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine and will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time.

1 year ago

Jamie Gauthier sits in front of a microphone
PlanPhilly
Government
Housing
Philadelphia

Philly charter change proposal would mean more funding for affordable housing

The measure looks to close a loophole that has frustrated housing advocates for years.

1 year ago

Listen 0:54
The site of the former 49th Street Terminal along the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia will be cleaned up using a federal brownfield grant. (Sophia Schmidt/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Environment
National
Philadelphia
Preservation

Cleanup of former oil terminal near Bartram’s Garden gets boost with EPA funds

The site is one of close to 200 nationwide receiving cleanup funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

1 year ago

Listen 1:06
a look at a cliff on the edge of a cement company
PlanPhilly
Environment
Philadelphia

A Philly concrete plant polluted without a permit. Now it’s paying to help stop dumping

A facility just feet from Frankford Creek lacked the proper stormwater permit. It agreed to pay for an anti-dumping project in a nearby park.

1 year ago

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an empty grass lot on the 1300 block of Corlies Street in South Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Government
Housing
Philadelphia

Cherelle Parker wants to deliver 30,000 units of housing in Philly. Can it happen?

The mayor has broadened the goal to include new construction and renovations.

1 year ago

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intersection
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Streets & Roads
Transportation
Billy Penn

Making Philly streets safer shouldn’t be such an enormous chore, planners say

‘Right-of-way’ advocates call for quick permitting of street-narrowing and public benches

1 year ago

the demolished UC Townhomes
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Politics

Mayor Parker’s budget leaves UC Townhomes agreement in limbo. Housing advocates aren’t happy

The Philadelphia Housing Authority is poised to build 70 units on the former site of the University City Townhomes. It needs funding from the city before that can happen.

1 year ago

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