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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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SEIU union members rally inside the first floor of the Municipal Service Building to file a complaint against universities and hospitals, and a contractor for them who the union claims is not paying security workers the prevailing wage on Monday. (Michael D'Onofrio/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Education
The Philadelphia Tribune

Union files complaint against CCP, UPenn, Drexel, Temple, and more over wages for security officers

SEIU filed its labor complaint against Drexel University, CCP, St. Joseph University, Temple University, Temple University Hospital, UPenn, and the UPenn Health system.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Fire-damaged South Philadelphia refinery files for bankruptcy again

Damage pushes the refinery to file for Chapter 11 again. Philadelphia Energy Solutions expects to restructure with a $100 million financial agreement.

7 years ago

Business partners and friends Kate Sisk and Flo McIlwaine launched Hidden Intimates in March COURTESY KATE AND FLO
Community
Billy Penn

Why two former Anthropologie buyers created a lingerie store that celebrates all women

Hidden Intimates operates under the mantra that “comfortable is sexy.”

7 years ago

The retailer is rebranding itself with smaller stores and a focus on events and activities. (Toys
NPR
Money

Toys R Us is coming back but with a different approach

More than a year after filing for bankruptcy, the chain is relaunching in Texas and New Jersey. Its new stores will feature spaces for toy demonstrations and events.

7 years ago

A small fleet of GoPuff delivery vehicles, parked outside their Philadelphia headquarters. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey asks delivery service goPuff for more information on tax break application

New Jersey wants answers from three companies approved for tax incentives.

7 years ago

The entrance to Hahnemann University Hospital on North Broad Street in July, before the hospital was shuttered. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Judge rules Hahnemann can sell its residency programs to highest bidder; closure plan delayed

The hospital's lawyers could not agree on a closure plan with city and state health officials in time for Friday’s scheduled hearing, and the matter was pushed to next week.

7 years ago

Patty Stoll, senior director and division manager for ILC Dover’s space systems division, stands with a suit made at ILC Dover in Frederica, Delaware for the Apollo mission. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Science

Delaware companies eye a future in space while marking Apollo 11’s anniversary

Two Delaware companies that contributed spacesuits and other materials to the moon landing 50 years ago see a role in future space missions.

7 years ago

Listen 1:41
Drexel Medicine on Broad St. in Philadelphia (Google maps)
Health

Major Drexel medical layoffs could jeopardize patient care

Hahnemann Hospital’s owner is due back in U.S. Bankruptcy Court as Drexel lays off physicians and clinicians and St. Christopher’s gets an offer.

7 years ago

In this file photo, Liberian LNG tanker Al Hamra arrives at a port in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo,  Monday, April 21, 2014. (Koji Sasahara/AP Photo)
Community
NJ Spotlight

Gloucester County LNG export terminal would take 360 trucks a day, 24/7, Army Corps says

Agency releases new details about planned Gloucester County facility after "conversations" with developer.

7 years ago

A tasting event at Birchtree Catering's space at Globe Dye Works (Facebook / Love Me Do Photography)
Money
Broke in Philly

How can established small businesses — not startups — get access to capital?

It’s never easy to fund the hustle.

7 years ago

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter speaks to the media at a news conference following closing arguments in Oklahoma's ongoing opioid drug lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson Monday, July 15, 2019, in Norman, Okla. (Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Oklahoma AG calls N.J. company ‘kingpin’ in state’s opioid crisis

Consumer products giant Johnson & Johnson was a "kingpin" company that helped fuel the most devastating public health crisis in Oklahoma history, the AG argued Monday.

7 years ago

Humberto Manzano, Jr., delivers an arriving pallet of goods at an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Phoenix.  (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

On the Clock with Emily Guendelsberger

One journalist took three low-wage jobs; one at Amazon, one at McDonalds, and another at a call center - to learn about work in modern America.

Air Date: July 16, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Sharif Abdur-Rahim, one of two founding brothers of West Philadelphia's African Cultural Arts Forum, stands in a second-floor workshop used to store African art and to produce the oils, incense and personal-care products they sell. (Kriston Jae Bethel for NextCity)
Community
Broke in Philly

Can employee ownership preserve legacy businesses in communities of color?

Next City looks at year one of the SEED Fellowship, which educates small-business owners on how to craft succession plans and convert to employee ownership.

7 years ago

Revelers (from left) Francesca Negron, Ann Patricia, and Katherine Patterson, wear period costumes for the final Bastille Day performance on July 14, 2018. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Fraternité! Bastille Day to rise again in Fairmount

The French holiday spurred a beloved farce at historic Eastern State Penitentiary that ended last year. Now, local businesses are picking up the torch.

7 years ago

Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Hahnemann bankruptcy proceedings start slowly in Wilmington

The hearing on the overall closure plan is now scheduled for Friday, July 19.

7 years ago

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