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Lack of U.S. funding stymies N.Y.-N.J. rail tunnel construction
The states have agreed to contribute a total of 50 percent of the construction costs, but the U.S. government has made no commitment for the other half.
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Dems line up behind Medicare-for-all, GOP tries to repeal ACA
Guests: Jeff Stein, Walter Tsou, Micah Weinberg When Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer healthcare bil ...
Air Date: September 22, 2017
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Equifax and cybersecurity; PA budget
Guests: John Baer, Matt Blaze, Fahmida Rashid Have you visited the Equifax website to find out if you’re data ...
Air Date: September 21, 2017
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On ‘Radio Times’: Would Amazon mean more ‘nerds’ in Philly?
On Tuesday’s edition of Radio Times, Philadelphia Daily News columnist Will Bunch joked about how the city would see an influx of nerds ...
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Stark differences persist as Pa. Senate returns to budget talks
The state Senate is back in session, and is gearing up to respond to a budget package the House passed last week. Senate leaders a ...
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Wilmington audit reveals wasteful trash collection spending
For years, nearly 100 Wilmington businesses and nonprofits had their trash picked up for free, costing the city hundreds of thousands of ...
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Hillary’s Wall Street talks: ‘I shouldn’t have assumed it would be OK’
In 1977, three years out of power, Richard Nixon catalogued his self-inflicted Watergate mistakes. Referring to his political opponents, ...
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Amazon in Philly? / The Suffrage Movement
Guests: Angela Dodson, Will Bunch, Adam Ozimek Abigail Adam’s once admonished her husband John Adams, in a lett ...
Air Date: September 19, 2017
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Philly disputes claim soda tax is hurting businesses
Philadelphia officials say the growth of beverage-related businesses has not declined since the city levied a tax on soda and other sweet ...
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Collective bargaining bills would apply public records, open meetings laws to contract negotiations
Some state lawmakers are pushing a package of bills that they say would make contract negotiations between government agencies and public ...
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Pennsylvania delays payments as general fund balance nears zero
Pennsylvania is putting off paying over a billion dollars to insurers who administer Medicaid benefits, because its main bank account is ...
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New help for Delaware companies exporting products overseas [video]
The World Trade Center of Delaware’s efforts to help Delaware companies send their products and services around the globe is gettin ...
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Man burned by caustic beer at Atlantic City McCormick & Schmick’s gets $750K
A New Jersey man whose esophagus and stomach were severely burned after drinking a beer tainted by a caustic chemical at an Atlantic City ...
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Challenger says Rep. Brady paid debt to get him out of 2012 race
The man who federal authorities say agreed to drop his 2012 Democratic primary challenge of U.S. Rep. Bob Brady in return for $90,000 in ...
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Classes begin at Delaware watchmaking school for vets [video]
Naysayers said the Veterans Watchmaker Initiative would never open its doors, but after seven years of hard work, founder Sam Cannan prov ...
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