NewsWorks Tonight August 5, 2015 – Full Show

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    Tom MacDonald breaks down the Center City security closures during the pope’s visit in September.  Bobby Allyn reports the family of Brandon Tate-Brown is renewing its call for charges against the officer who fatally shot him.  In the midst of one of Pennsylvania’s longest budget impasses, Mary Wilson looks back at the last stalemate of this length, and what one woman tried to do about it.  Dave talks with New York Times reporter Bill Pennington, who recently documented the glut of Haverford College alumni now working in baseball front offices, then talks with a New Jersey eighth grader chosen to be among Historic Philadelphia’s “Future Storytellers.”

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