NewsWorks Tonight December 15, 2015 – Full Show
ListenAaron Moselle reports longtime Philadelphia Congressman Chaka Fattah faces a challenging reelection following a corruption indictment. Anne Hoffman describes a new report that estimates that people with severe, untreated mental illness are sixteen times more likely to have fatal encounters with police. Keystone Crossroads’ Lindsay Lazarski reports on the struggles of South Bethlehem. Historian Jonathan Zimmerman takes us back to the origins of the so-called “War on Christmas.” And Howard Shapiro reviews the Philadelphia Theater Company’s “Baskerville.”
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