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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Vu Ho is the owner of Ethan's Food Truck. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Food cart owners say City Hall is pushing them out of Philly. Here’s why.

New restrictions from Philadelphia City Council are making business tough for many Philadelphia food carts.

7 years ago

Streets Department employee Shaketa Armstead worries about her health every day she's on the job, in part because the low-quality safety equipment the city provides. (Aaron Moselle/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Feces and needles ‘jumping in the air’: City street cleaners want better safety gear

Philadelphia street cleaners say the city’s street sweeping pilot is exposing them to health hazards.

7 years ago

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No parking, yet retail still thrives. Social interaction is facilitated by human scale infrastructure. (Courtesy of Christopher Puchalsky)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Eyes on the Street

What Philly can learn from Copenhagen’s response to the climate crisis

City officials from Philadelphia visited Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit. Here’s what Philly can learn from the city’s design.

7 years ago

Police investigate a 2018 drive-by shooting in Germantown. The City’s Controller has found that a homicide reduces the values of a nearby homes. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Homicide and home values: Why the city controller says Philly needs a fiscal argument to combat murder rate

A new report says that murder in Philadelphia hurts home values. And its authors think the city needs to hear that message to prompt real change.

7 years ago

A rendering of the proposed Park at Penn's Landing.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Finally, the final design phase is beginning for Park at Penn’s Landing

Funding is in place, preliminary engineering is done, and a survey asking about current and future waterfront uses is linked on the park’s website.

7 years ago

Residents from the Philadelphian, a condominium building across from the Philadelphia Art Museum, support the ban on plastic bags because they interfere with recycling. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Philly Council committee moves plastic bag ban to final vote, but kills 15-cent fee

Philadelphia took one step closer to banning single-use bags Tuesday but axed a 15-cent fee on thicker plastic and recyclable paper bags.

7 years ago

Bedbugs are seen in a container from the lab at the National Pest Management Association, during the National Bed Bug Summit in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Should landlords be responsible for a bedbug infestation? New bill passes remediation costs to tenants.

The bill that advanced would hold landlords responsible for remediating bedbugs if they are discovered within 90 days of a lease’s commencement.

7 years ago

The owner of Nam Son Bakery behind the counter of the South Philadelphia shop. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Hoa Binh Plaza banh mi shop closed amid concerns that city agency was ‘weaponized for gentrification’

Nam Son Bakery closed this month. The shuttered shop has become a symbol of cultural displacement to the Vietnamese community.

7 years ago

Ray King's artwork illuminates the platform of the revamped 15th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Lights! Elevators! Signs! SEPTA’s 15th Street Station gets $28 million makeover

The $28 million renovation moves the transit agency closer to meeting goals for accessibility and design.

7 years ago

Firefighters attacking the flames of a fire in an auto shop at 59th and Irving streets in West Philly. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

West Philly blaze linked to auto shop that failed fire inspections two weeks ago

An auto shop that erupted in a dramatic three-alarm blaze in West Philly was cited for serious fire code violations by the city two weeks ago.

7 years ago

Saint Francis de Sales Church in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Sacred battleground: Why the Philadelphia Archdiocese surrendered to preservationists

The Archdioceses of Philadelphia acknowledges that its position on preservation is no longer as oppositional as it once was.

7 years ago

The Market-Frankford line, with the Philly skyline in the background
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA is building a parking garage for 69th Street Station’s 35,000 daily riders

Construction on the $37 million three-story garage should begin by summer 2020 and last about 18 months.

7 years ago

Traffic clogs I-676 in Philadelphia  during the SEPTA strike. (Katherine Blodgett via Twitter)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

As congestion worsens in Philly, car-related emissions spike

Philadelphia’s congestion problem is growing on the streets and in the air. 

7 years ago

City Councilmember Al Taubenberger. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Should grandma get a tax cut? One Republican city councilmember thinks so.

City Councilmember Al Taubenberger introduced a legislative package Thursday to give breaks on wage and real estate taxes to many Philadelphia families.

7 years ago

The building was gutted by fire on Feb. 18. Adjacent buildings were damaged.
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Feds: Brothers who owned Old City businesses set 2018 fire that shut down neighborhood

Two Old City business owners intentionally set the massive 2018 fire that shut down the 200 block of Chestnut Street, federal authorities charged.

7 years ago

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