Archives: Episodes
US and American Airlines merger
Guests: Henry Harteveldt and Brian Kelly Last week a federal bankruptcy judge approved the merger of US Airways a ...
Air Date: April 3, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight April 2, 2013 – Full Show
Tom MacDonald reports on a new map that designates new district boundaries in Philadelphia. Maiken Scott visits a new Delaware practice h ...
Air Date: April 2, 2013
ListenPicture it: ‘Rizzo’ the play, opening night — who’s on the red carpet?
Renowned local playwright Bruce Graham is writing a play about former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo. Tony Auth has imagined a guest ...
Air Date: April 2, 2013
Household chores — figuring out who does what and why it’s so hard
Guests: Wendy Klein, Andy Hinds, Emily Oster Let’s be honest….no one likes doing chores, but the good n ...
Air Date: April 2, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight April 1, 2013 – Full Show
Taunya English has the story on this year’s Philadelphia Award winner–a genetics researcher whose discoveries are helping to ...
Air Date: April 1, 2013
ListenNASA considers cutbacks due to sequestration
NASA’s education and public outreach activities may come to a halt – part of efforts to pare $1.2 trillion dollars over the n ...
Air Date: April 1, 2013
ListenAn update on the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention facility
CAROL ROSENBERG, BENJAMIN WITTES & DAVID FRAKT At least 31 prisoners at the ...
Air Date: April 1, 2013
ListenGuest: Marlene Zuk Have you tried barefoot running, the Caveman Diet or attachment parenting? Taking lessons fr ...
Air Date: April 1, 2013
ListenIs sod the answer to all your grass growing woes?
March 30, 2013 — As many people sadly learn, trying to grow grass from seed just doesn’t work in most climates in the sp ...
Air Date: March 30, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight, March 29, 2013 – Full Show
Holly Otterbein previews this Monday’s deadline for Philadelphians to appeal their property tax assessments. We talk to Rebec ...
Air Date: March 29, 2013
ListenThe Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage
Guests: Ed Whelan, Tobias Wolff This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases related to same-sex marr ...
Air Date: March 29, 2013
ListenRebecca Skloot, ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’
[REBROADCAST] Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors; she di ...
Air Date: March 29, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight, March 28, 2013 – Full Show
Emma Jacobs reports on the US Supreme Court’s ruling on a class action lawsuit aimed at Comcast. Maiken Scott looks into how the Philad ...
Air Date: March 28, 2013
ListenPsychopaths. They’re often depicted as smooth-talking liars, devoid of guilt and empathy and immune to healthy fears and stress. Many ...
Air Date: March 28, 2013
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