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The Pennsylvania state budget and tax increases
In an effort to close an estimated $3.2 billion deficit, Governor Ed Rendell last week proposed increasing the Commonwealth’s perso ...
Air Date: June 23, 2009
How and why spouses and partners lie about money and why that behavior can undermine a relationship. Marty talks to B. JANET HIBBS, a psy ...
Air Date: June 22, 2009
Representative John Murtha’s Controversy
Questions are being raised about Pennsylvania’s 12th District Representative, John Murtha. Some a calling for ethics investigations ...
Air Date: June 22, 2009
[REBROADCAST] Grey Gardens the Musical will be playing at the Suzanne Roberts Theater until June 28th. It’s based on the 1975 David ...
Air Date: June 19, 2009
Six states have legally recognized same-sex marriage: Massachusetts, Maine, Iowa, Vermont, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Supporters have ...
Air Date: June 19, 2009
Extra Golden’s members are natives of the United States and Kenya. Their debut, Ok-Oyot S ...
Air Date: June 18, 2009
Nigerian writer Chmamanda Ngozi Adichie
2008 MacArthur fellow Chimamanda Adichie has written her third book, “The Thing Around Your Neck,” a collection of short stor ...
Air Date: June 18, 2009
We continue to follow the events in Iran and talk to writer and editor KAVEH EHSANI and ALI NADER an analyst at the Rand Corporation. ...
Air Date: June 18, 2009
According to our guests, KEVIN BALES and RON SOODALTER, there are as many as 27 million trapped in modern slavery worldwide. They join us ...
Air Date: June 17, 2009
How do we create safe communities?
How do we create safe communities? What is the Kensington community doing in response to the violent events of the last two weeks? A car ...
Air Date: June 17, 2009
Writer Joseph O’Neill on his book Netherland, winner of the 2009 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
An unlikely friendship between an ex-pat European and a Trinidadian entrepreneur in post-9/11 New York is the subject of writer JOSEPH O& ...
Air Date: June 16, 2009
In the wake of the recent spate of murders committed by right-wing extremists we look at the power of hate – how it motivates indiv ...
Air Date: June 16, 2009