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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Urban Planning

SEPTA can’t say exactly how much it pays pension fund managers

8 years ago

A Passyunk Square municipal complex is slated for redevelopment. (Google Maps)
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Urban Planning
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City to redevelop industrial corner of booming Passyunk Square

Philadelphia officials are looking for a developer to remake a valuable tract of city-owned land just off South Philly's thriving East Passyunk corridor.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law
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Police Commissioner rejects key Starbucks arrest report recommendation

The PPD agrees that anti-racist training could help officers de-escalate conflicts but can’t commit to providing that training.

8 years ago

Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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New map shows Philly renter spike sharper than other big cities

Over the last decade, Philadelphia saw a rise in rentership well above the national average, and higher than most of the nation’s other large cities, according to new data

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Former Mayor John Street criticizes Kenney’s record on preservation; backs new PAC

8 years ago

Hundreds of Philadelphians gather at Thomas Paine Plaza to remember the those homeless and formerly homeless Philadelphians who died in 2017 and to call for an end to homelessness on December 21, 2017. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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With Dilworth and LOVE Park remade for leisure, Paine Plaza redo is a chance to save a space for protest

Thomas Paine Plaza, the public space outside the Municipal Services Building, is so unremarkable that you’d be forgiven for not knowing its name.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Historical Commission approves Ridge Avenue district

8 years ago

Skaters from FDR Skatepark set up a sign and
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Community
PlanPhilly

Skaters fill potholes left unfixed by city crews

Wearing the flat sneakers they skate in, the self-appointed streets team poured in wet cement and smoothed the surfaces.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City Council recalls Temple community center project

8 years ago

Clouds pass over the Schuylkill River and Philadelphia's skyline. Officials are considering a new plan to preserve or build 100,000 housing units over the next 10 years. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philly maps 10-year course toward building, preserving 100,000 housing units

Detailing the strategies Philadelphia hopes to employ to create or preserve 100,000 units of housing in the next 10 years, the city’s new housing plan dropped on Wednesday.

8 years ago

Traffic on Washington Avenue at 9th Street in South Philadelphia
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Urban Planning
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Killing SEPTA transfer fees, charging for parking differently — it’s all in Philly’s new transportation plan

The City of Philadelphia released what may be its most ambitious and concretely detailed transportation plan yet on Wednesday.

8 years ago

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There isn't lighting at the football field behind Lonnie Young Rec Center in East Germantown. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Kenney walks back $500M Rebuild promise

The glowing “First 1,000 Days” report [pdf] released Oct. 1 by Mayor Jim Kenney contained 15 mentions of Rebuild, his most expensive and highest profile initiative.

8 years ago

Germantown Boys & Girls Club (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Historic Germantown Boys and Girls Club spared wrecking ball

High atop the municipal building at 1515 Arch Street on Tuesday morning, the long battle over the future of the Germantown Boys and Girls Club appeared to end in détente.

8 years ago

The Frankford Chocolate Factory at 21st and Washington Streets is in the process of demolition 
. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

South Philly group asks chocolate factory developer for community benefits

S. Philly residents are playing hardball with developer Ori Feibush over a $100 million residential redux of the 150-year-old Frankford Chocolate Factory on Washington Ave.

8 years ago

The Bradley family has lived in Point Breeze their whole lives. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A Point Breeze night market inspires neighborhood pride

If you feed them, they will come.

8 years ago

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