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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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The FAA declined to regulate seat size and pitch on airlines, saying current dimensions do not present a safety hazard. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
NPR
Community

FAA to passengers: Not our job to regulate seat size, legroom on planes

The decision came in the form of a letter responding to a lawsuit brought by the group Flyers Rights.

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
Community

Vendor apologizes to communities after failing to deliver fireworks

Fourth of July fireworks shows didn't go off as planned in two New Jersey communities after a vendor failed to deliver the fireworks.

8 years ago

The former GM plant near Newport, Delaware has been vacant since 2009. New plans for a logistics and fulfillment center at the site could bring 2,000 new jobs to the area. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
First
Community

Hopes for rebirth at former Delaware auto plant

After a decade of dormancy, the former GM vehicle assembly plant near Newport is about to get a multi-million dollar overhaul.

8 years ago

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Located in a remote spot on the Delaware River tubing route, the Famouse River Hot Dog Man is the only game in town for tubers, whose lazy journeys can last four to six hours.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

24 days of summer: The business of being the Famous River Hot Dog Man

Since 1987, Greg Crance has run a hot dog stand in the middle of the Delaware River. It's a beautiful office, but a fickle business.

8 years ago

Listen 4:23
(Bigstock)
Courts & Law

Fireworks are (mostly) legal now in the tri-state area. Here’s what you need to know.

Over the last year, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware have all relaxed their consumer fireworks laws.

8 years ago

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (https://goo.gl/maps/eirwk2nuHCu)
Health

Injectable opioid shortages put hospitals on brink of public health crisis

After Pfizer cut back on production, Philly's Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is getting 30 percent less injectable morphine, fentanyl, and Dilaudid than it did a year ago.

8 years ago

Celebrities and VIPs smash guitars as part of the grand opening celebration at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City Thursday. Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to the gritty seaside gambling resort as two of its shuttered casinos reopened with more than 6,000 of the 11,000 jobs it lost during a brutal stretch of casino shutdowns. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Rebounding from a losing streak, Atlantic City celebrates two new casinos

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Ocean Resort Casino both hosted festivities Thursday to officially open their doors to gamblers and hotel guests.

8 years ago

Listen 2:14
At some point this year, Pennsylvanians will be able to legally gamble on sports. (AP)
Politics & Policy

Pa. gradually laying out structure for legal sports betting

Lawmakers legalized the gambling expansion last year, but it wasn't permitted under federal law until a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month.

8 years ago

People gather at the Supreme Court awaiting a decision in an Illinois union dues case, Janus v. AFSCME, on Monday. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court deals blow to government unions

SCOTUS ruled Wednesday that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged for the cost of collective bargaining.

8 years ago

University of Pittsburgh play Penn State at Heinz Field during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Education

Two schools of thought on Pa. venture into sports wagering

Penn State University wants a moratorium on college sports betting — while the University of Pittsburgh wants a piece of the action.

8 years ago

Senate President Steve Sweeney, (right), D-Gloucester, listens as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy speaks in the Assembly chamber of the Statehouse in Trenton. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Governor, lawmakers inching toward New Jersey budget deal

Gov. Phil Murphy says all options are on the table — including a state government shutdown if a budget is not enacted by the Saturday deadline.

8 years ago

The Campbell's Soup plant off South 11th Street in Camden. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Money

After Campbell Soup misses revenue goals, sale rumors swirl

Those white and carnelian red cans of Campbell Soup may be going up for sale — and not just to grocery shoppers.

8 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney chats with Chung Le, the owner of Pho Saigon Restaurant, in Northeast Philadelphia Monday. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Community

Kenney visits Northeast Philly, chats with immigrant entrepreneurs

The mayor's tour was part of an effort to recognize the growing contributions immigrants and their businesses make in that part of Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Harley-Davidson motorcycle engines are assembled at the company's plant in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Tariffs from the European Union are prompting the company to shift production of some motorcycles for the European market overseas.
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Casualty of trade tensions: Harley-Davidson shifting more production overseas

Harley-Davidson says it plans to move production of motorcycles it sells in Europe overseas in response to growing trade friction between the United States and Europe.

8 years ago

The Casa Padre facility in Brownsville, Texas, is one of more than two dozen shelters for immigrant children operated by Southwest Key. (Department of Health and Human Services)
NPR
Community

A Latino nonprofit is holding separated kids. Is that care or complicity or both?

Much to its leaders' frustration, Southwest Key became the face of a Trump administration policy.

8 years ago

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