NewsWorks Tonight July 2, 2015 – Full Show

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    Host Dave Heller speaks with United Food and Commercial Workers Union President, Wendell Young, and Penn Live’s John Micek about Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s vetoing of a bill to privatize state liquor sales. Tom MacDonald reports on a new wheelchair-accessible taxi in Philadelphia. Elana Gordon explains one neuroscientist’s art exhibit that turns Philadelphia into one interconnected brain. Elisabeth Perez Luna tells us about a new exhibit honoring self-taught African-American artist, and war veteran Horace Pippin. And as part of our series celebrating the anniversary of the first gay rights demonstrations in Philadelphia, activist Ada Bello recalls those demonstrations 50 years ago.

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