NewsWorks Tonight, March 27, 2013 – Full Show
ListenDave Davies reports on Birdsall Service Group’s indictment for conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions. We take a closer look at local historical park that is being challenged by local activists to stop selling bottled water in order to reduce litter and to better the environment. Carolyn Beeler visits a mental health center in Delaware that is finding new ways of using remote technology to help its patients. Peter Crimmins takes us behind the scenes at the upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts which will also feature a “time machine.” Maiken Scott has the story on a group of Penn Students who won a national public policy challenge in their hometown for designing a system that helps patients released from psychiatric hospitals. Emma Jacobs travels to a Philadelphia bakery that is celebrating this Passover by adding new flavor to traditionally tasteless Matzah.
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