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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
Broke in Philly

‘Everyone must pay their fair share’: Philly Council president pushes for reduction of commercial real estate abatement

The commercial real estate abatement reduction could advance in place of 1% construction tax previously proposed.

5 years ago

Homes across from Fairmount Park at 33rd and Clifford streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Darrell Clarke proposes ban on roof decks and certain building materials in gentrifying Strawberry Mansion

The legislation would shape and limit development in the increasingly desirable section of the North Philadelphia neighborhood.

5 years ago

PHA President and CEO Kelvin Jeremiah
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philadelphia Housing Authority vows to send 240 vacant properties to nonprofit developers

With an eye to avoiding that fate in the historically Black and brown North Philly community, Quiñones-Sánchez said her goal is to shape the development that happens next.

5 years ago

Jessica Mangold (left) and Leon Vaughn (right) are SEPTA social distancing coaches who hand out masks and encourage riders to stay safe during the pandemic. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA keeps no-enforcement mask policy as other transit agencies begin fines

SEPTA officials say they will not put frontline employees in a position to enforce the agency’s mask requirement.

5 years ago

Signs that read, ''I Buy Houses'' and ''We Buy Houses'' can be seen posted on a street pole in Philly
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Eyes on the Street

‘We buy houses’: Philly Council targets real estate scammers with bill

A bill introduced by Philly City Councilmember Allan Domb and co-sponsors would create protections against scammers plastering the city with 'We buy houses' signs.

5 years ago

A rendering of the Mamie Nichols Townhomes
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

33 affordable rental homes named for Point Breeze hero Mamie Nichols break ground

Built on formerly vacant city lots, the housing will be earmarked for families earning less than $50,000 and veterans.

5 years ago

Sigma Sound building, 212 N 12th St. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Sigma Studios, birthplace of the Philly Sound, wins spot on city’s historic register

The Philadelphia Historical Commission voted unanimously to add Sigma Studios to the local Register of Historic Places.

5 years ago

Natalie Flor Negron creates a mural titled “Ancient Roots” for the Philadelphia Chalk Festival outside the Philadelphia Brewing Company in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

With colorful chalk, creating art, community and business opportunity

The vision was for the Fishtown-East Kensington event to be a win for businesses, artists, and the neighborhoods during the pandemic.

5 years ago

Roger 'Texas' Brown, 62, stands outside his home in the Frankford neighborhood Nov. 12, 2020. (Taylor Allen/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Why Frankford residents supported Rite Aid’s plea to demolish a neighborhood icon

The Historical Commission unanimously approved Rite Aid’s plan to demolish the midcentury modern Penn Fruit landmark.

5 years ago

Center City Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly vows to slow rising traffic fatality rate with more speed enforcement — and bikes

Announced as traffic fatality rates soar to historic levels, Philadelphia’s latest Vision Zero plan hinges on changing drivers’ behavior.

5 years ago

Linda Kerns speaks to reporters in this 2017 file photo taken of the lawyer as she represented the Philadelphia Republican Party,  which was then suing to invalidate the results of a special election in the 197th legislation district. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Lawyer behind Trump’s legal campaign to win Pa. has a long history in Philly

President Donald Trump’s hopes for staying in the White House hinge on a battery of legal complaints filed by a Philadelphia lawyer with a revealing past.

5 years ago

PECO truck in the foreground, PECO worker in the background
PlanPhilly
Health

Hundreds of thousands of people face utility shutoffs as pandemic surges

As shutoffs resume, Pa. utility customers who need help paying their bills have options under the state’s Public Utility Commission regulations.

5 years ago

Tya Winn is the new executive director of the Community Design Collaborative. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Tya Winn takes the helm of Community Design Collaborative with racial equity a priority

34-year-old Tya Winn enters her new role as director of the Community Design Collaborative with a focus on community development and affordable housing.

5 years ago

Protesters march from the scene of Walter Wallace Jr.’s killing to Malcolm X Park. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

West Philly voters want Biden to deliver on police reform, education and an ‘even’ playing field

We talked to West Philadelphia voters about their White House wish list under a Biden-Harris administration.

5 years ago

Tureka Dixon instructing FTI apprentices at a recent class. (Courtesy of IUPAT District Council 21)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
Eyes on the Street

How a Philly union program can make Biden’s vow to ‘build back better’ a reality

President-elect Biden campaigned on a plan to create jobs rebuilding infrastructure. Apprenticeships can help connect Philly residents to opportunity.

5 years ago

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