NewsWorks Tonight April 9, 2018
Listen 20:45Cosby’s second trial begins. New Jersey congressmen weigh in on legal weed. Philadelphia scales back its ambitions for universal pre-K. Children’s author Kwame Alexander talks jazz, poetry, and basketball. And Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts joins us.
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NewsWorks Tonight was a daily radio show and podcast that ran from 2011-2018. It is no longer in production, but the show's archive is available online.
Philly residents make holiday cards for Wolf in effort to repeal Pa.’s new prison mail policy
The new policy was put in place in August when staff and inmates fell ill after drug exposure. Mail now goes to a facility in Florida, and inmates receive a scanned copy.
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Amtrak may spare 30th Street Station’s beloved flipping board
The beloved split-flap sign at 30th Street Station, in Philadelphia, may have earned an 11th hour reprieve.
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New ‘Safe Corridors’ program brings parent patrols to opioid-plagued Kensington
The Philadelphia Resilience Project’s Safe Corridors initiative intends to make walks back and forth to school safer
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