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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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A new initiative through TerraCycle will bring products like Haagen Dazs to local stores in reusable packaging (Provided)
Community

Haagen Dazs, Procter & Gamble to offer reusable containers in Pa., N.J.

Recycling company Terracycle will pick up the glass and plastic bottles and cartons from grocery stores, or your home, to be cleaned and refilled.

6 years ago

A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers the mail in Shelbyville, Ky. A White House task force recommended ending the mailbox monopoly held by USPS. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Your mailbox could be opened up to private carriers

By law, only you and the U.S. Postal Service are allowed to put things in your mailbox. But what if companies like FedEx and UPS could do it too?

6 years ago

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, second from right, is greeted by colleagues after a vote to raise the minimum wage in Trenton Thursday. Gov. Phil Murphy intends to sign the measure into law Monday. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. Legislature passes $15 minimum wage, Murphy vows to sign it into law

Democratic lawmakers said the state’s current $8.85 minimum was insufficient for survival. But business groups and some in the GOP say it will prove too costly.

6 years ago

The ship Hammersmith Bridge, foreground, which has just arrived from Shanghai in China, unloads Chinese shipping containers at the Port of Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, on September 29, 2018. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. opens trade talks with China

The Trump administration opened high-stakes trade talks with China on Wednesday. The two sides have just over a month to reach an agreement, or risk an escalation.

6 years ago

The Mariner East 2 pipeline has officially broken ground in the Delaware County town of Aston. The beginning stages of the pipeline includes clear cutting trees and preparing makeshift roads for the heavy machinery to traverse. (Emily Cohen for StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Federal government shutdown slows process for construction permits in Pa.

The partial federal government shutdown is slowing the approval process for construction permits and several other environmental-related issues, according to the state DEP.

6 years ago

In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019 photo, Brendan Shaughnessy, (left), with the Nuclear Issues Study Group, protests with other activists ahead of a meeting of a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission panel in Albuquerque, N.M. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo)
Money

Holtec defends plans for nuclear waste storage facility

A New Jersey-based company is defending plans to build a multibillion-dollar facility in the New Mexico desert to store spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.

6 years ago

Alyssa Collins with Penn State Extension shows a hemp plant that grew after the main experiment was harvested. Under guidelines from the state Department of Agriculture, any plants that spring up outside the parameters of the research period would have to be destroyed. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
Money

Pa. plans to open industrial hemp program to commercial growers

Pennsylvania's Agriculture Department is opening up its hemp program, pending approval from the federal government.

6 years ago

The bottles that say Stratos are capsules filled with cannabis for a sleeping or for energy. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

N.J. employers search for straight answers on cannabis in the workplace

Medical marijuana raises more questions than answers about drug tests and employee rights, while full-blown legalization seems like an invitation to lawsuits and court cases.

6 years ago

A customer browses the shelves at Shakespeare & Co. in Center City. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Independent bookstores are coming back in Philly, across the U.S.

Chain retailers are struggling, but there are many reasons why independent bookstores are thriving in Philly and other places across the U.S.

6 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Comcast, Aramark and Campbell’s rank among Fortune 500s for boardroom diversity

In a multiyear study Comcast Corp., Aramark and Campbell Soup Company all ranked in the top 35 among the Fortune 500 firms for boardroom diversity.

6 years ago

Workers prepare steel for shipment at Camden Yards Steel Company. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Camden officials bristle at Murphy’s critique of N.J. tax incentives

After governor slams lax oversight of the tax break program, saying the money could have been better spent elsewhere, Camden officials point to how it's improved the city.

6 years ago

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Finance Director Rob Dubow maintained the property tax assessment issue is not as big as City Council or the controller have said it is. (WHYY file)
Politics & Policy

Philly controller questions tax assessments; finance director points to improvement

In a new report, Philadelphia's controller criticizes method for calculating property tax assessments. But the finance chief defends the system and notes improvements.

6 years ago

In this Tuesday, May 20, 2008, file photo, John Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, talks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. Bogle has died at 89. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Money

John Bogle, Vanguard founder, dies at 89

Bogle did not invent the index fund, but he expanded access to no-frills, low-cost investing in 1976 when Vanguard introduced the first index fund for individual investors.

6 years ago

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard says a growing body of research suggests that diversity leads to better decision-making. (Cliff Owen/AP)
NPR
Money

The push to break up the boys’ club at the Fed

At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women.

6 years ago

An unswept street in the Germantown Special Services District on Nov. 2, 2018. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

Germantown businesses revolt against taxing district that didn’t deliver on clean streets promise

After a bad year, the Germantown Special Services District was in the red and unable to do its one main job: keep the streets clean.

6 years ago

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