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This year there’s some good news in the fight against childhood obesity – particularly for Philadelphia. Rates of childhood obesity h ...

Tens of billions of dollars are lost each year to consumer fraud and when the economy is down, fraud goes up.  These last years have bee ...

Benjamin Herold has the latest in the Philadelphia School District cheating allegations.  John George of the Philadelphia Business J ...

Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at t ...

1863 was a very bloody year as thousands of Americans were killed in many Civil War battles, despite the hopeful start of the year, as th ...

Bill Hangley has the latest on the Philadelphia School District’s school closure plan and a counter proposal from the unions. Emma ...

When our guest, JOHN BOGLE, founder of the mutual fund, ...

Locally-born-and-raised filmmaker SAM FR ...

In the wake of the Connecticut school shooting, Zack Seward checks gun laws in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.  We talk to N ...

The Connecticut school shooting has schools across the country looking at the possibility of tighening security, as many did after the sc ...

Last month, we started a conversation about what it really m ...

This Wednesday marks the start of the Saturnalia celebrations. Saturnalia, the Roman mid-winter festival, was used by early Christians t ...

In an effort to provide thoughtful perspective on the tragic shootings that killed 20 children aged 6-7 and 6 educators at Sandy Hook E ...

Over the past several months, major factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh have killed over 400 people working for companies that manuf ...

December 15, 2012 — Want to attract Monarch butterflies as they migrate down to Mexico? Mike McGrath shares what to plant ...