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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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Politics & Policy

N.J. may help former inmates stay in running for professional licenses, public-sector jobs

The measure would allow offenders who’ve completed their sentence to petition a court so they could once again get a professional license or be hired for a public job.

8 years ago

 In this Dec. 3, 2009, photo, a sign outside the Comcast Center, left, is shown in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
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Courts & Law

Analysis: Why the FCC’s proposed internet rules may spell trouble ahead

8 years ago

In this June 13, 2017 file photo, Lupita Nyong'o attends the Women In Film 2017 Crystal and Lucy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Nyong’o became the lone public woman of color among Weinstein’s litany of accusers, writing in a New York Times op-ed last month that she had an unsettling encounter with the producer in 2011 at his home in Connecticut. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Courts & Law

Why so few women of color in the wave of accusers? ‘Stakes higher’

In the weeks since dozens of women have accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of rape or harassment, women and men of color have been largely absent from the national furor.

8 years ago

Some legislation under consideration in Congress focuses on the safe disposal of prescription opioids. (AP file photo)
Radio Times
Health

The roots of the opioid epidemic

Guests: Keith Wailoo, Lenny Bernstein Pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors, doctors, drug stores and illeg ...

Air Date: November 16, 2017

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Chemours facility in Fayettville, North Carolina seen here via Google Earth has been cited by the NC Department of Environmental Quality for an October spill.
 (image via Google Earth)
Delaware Business Now
Community

Chemours cited for reported GenX discharge at North Carolina site

8 years ago

TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky shows a shampoo bottle made with recycled plastic collected from beaches and oceans. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Science

U.N. salutes Trenton firm for repurposing plastic waste collected from ocean

A quarter of the world’s plastic ends up in waterways, so TerraCycle has plenty of raw material for the shampoo bottles it's making with the recycled waste.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's capitol dome against the blue sky
Money

For second time, malpractice insurer sues Pa. over funding

State lawmakers are running into legal issues over a component of the budget plan they passed last month.

8 years ago

The Philadelphia skyline is seen along the banks of the Delaware River.
Courts & Law

As deadly violence rises across U.S., Philly business leaders learn to prepare

Business owners gather to learn how to prevent and react to workplace violence.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Money

The Paradise Papers / GOP tax plan update

Guests: Damian Paletta, Jesse Drucker The Paradise Papers, millions of leaked documents from the Bermuda law firm ...

Air Date: November 11, 2017

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(Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo)
Community

Delaware accuses chicken giant of polluting water

Mountaire Farms is accused of 13 violations of its permits to spray treated wastewater on fields in Millsboro, Delaware.

8 years ago

This Saturday, April 15, 2017, file photo shows President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The Trump Organization asked the federal government on July 20, 2017, to grant dozens of special visas to foreign nationals to work at two of the President Donald Trump’s private clubs in Florida, including his Mar-a-Lago resort. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo, File)
Money

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago gets approval to hire 70 foreign workers

Managers attest there aren't enough Americans qualified, willing and available to do the work.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania lawmakers have approved video gaming terminals such as this one for installation at
Politics & Policy

Moody’s questions Pa. gaming expansion as demand slackens

Lawmakers tried to address concerns by requiring new casinos to be a certain distance from established ones.

8 years ago

An NJ Transit train pulls into the station (Mel Evans/AP, file)
Health

44 train engineers diagnosed with sleep apnea, sidelined

Dozens of New Jersey Transit train engineers have been sidelined because testing imposed after a deadly rail crash found they suffered from sleep apnea.

8 years ago

Small businesses, like this coffee ship in Pittsburgh, might benefit from the GOP-led tax code overhaul. But some might not. (AP)
Money

Some small Pa. businesses uneasy over proposed tax code changes

Smaller business owners would also get a lower rate on some of their income, but there are limits to who would benefit.

8 years ago

Donna Roggio sits in the office at her home in Buckingham. Township officials have ordered her to stop renting her house through Airbnb. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Airbnb rental leads to squabble, new regulations in Bucks County

Zoning laws that restrict hotels or boarding houses often don’t apply to short-term rental arrangements. But pending changes in Buckingham Township echo a national trend.

8 years ago

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