Alan Tu

Host, Editor

Alan Tu is the host of WHYY’s Consider This podcast and is a radio editor for WHYY’s newsroom. He has served in various positions at WHYY, including as an associate producer with Fresh Air and as a senior producer with Radio Times.

Prior to joining WHYY, Alan was the Morning Edition host at Colorado Public Radio in Denver.

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Health

Billy Penn

Temple Hospital now has a ‘Yelp for OB-GYNs’ to improve care for families of color

Birthing pros say the app could provide data that helps eradicate Black maternal mortality.

2 years ago

Dr. Walter Lomax, a Philadelphia physician, tending to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his hotel room bed in Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1968. (AP Photo)

Arts & Entertainment

South Philly street block to be renamed in honor of WURD radio founder Dr. Walter P. Lomax

Walter P. Lomax, who used WURD to give Black Philadelphians access to the airwaves, will be posthumously honored with street renaming.

3 years ago

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The traffic circle, highlighted as a yellow circle, connects southbound I-295 to Route 29 in New Jersey. This is part of the major overhaul of the intersections in the area as they build a new Scudder Falls bridge. (Google Earth image)

Community

New traffic circle connecting I-295 to Route 29 in New Jersey opens Nov. 8

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6 years ago

Like these gamblers in the South Point hotel and casino in Las Vegas, bettors in New Jersey will be able to wager on sporting events beginning this week. (John Locher/AP Photo, file)

Money

With sports betting now legal in New Jersey, here’s what you need to know

Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport has announced it will open for sports betting on Thursday at 10:30 a.m., and the governor is expected too place the first wager.

6 years ago