NewsWorks Tonight June 9, 2016 – Full Show

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    Tom MacDonald reports back from yesterday’s Philadelphia City Council meeting, where the soda tax moved closer to becoming law. Laura Benshoff tells the story of Mohammed Jabbateh, a Delaware County resident from Liberia who allegedly concealed his past as a war criminal. Anne Hoffman looks at the business side of medical marijuana. Dave Heller talks to sociologist and author Marcus Hunter who gave the commencement speech at Girard College today. Peter Crimmins reports on Reading Viaduct’s new beer garden. 

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