Changing Communities
Cutting salt in Chinese takeout to curb heart disease
With poverty and stress driving up high blood pressure in communities of color, will it help to cut sodium in Chinese food? Health officials say it’s a worthy effort.
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Listen 8:57Historic Germantown Boys and Girls Club spared wrecking ball
High atop the municipal building at 1515 Arch Street on Tuesday morning, the long battle over the future of the Germantown Boys and Girls Club appeared to end in détente.
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South Philly group asks chocolate factory developer for community benefits
S. Philly residents are playing hardball with developer Ori Feibush over a $100 million residential redux of the 150-year-old Frankford Chocolate Factory on Washington Ave.
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Haunted by clergy abuse, Pa. family leaves Catholic Church after years-long struggle
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Listen 4:57‘Black Suns’ captures rare solar eclipse images
A film documents the work and adventure of African American astrophysicists.
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Listen 6:04A NE Philly school designed by a friend of Ben Franklin to be reborn as Albanian cultural center
It was a schoolhouse where Revolutionary-era leaders offered a "polite education" to young men in the then-new city of Philadelphia
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In neighborhoods and online, library loyalists organize to reverse cuts
The organizers are calling for the city to supercharge its annual contribution to the library budget by more than 36 percent
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A Nicetown factory goes to auction
“It was the heartbeat of this neighborhood.”
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Pa. Supreme Court restores Philly’s right to fight blight
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed the city’s ability to force property owners to maintain appearances of their vacant buildings, reversing a 2015 lower court ruling.
6 years ago
Toomey lauds Senate’s passage of sweeping opioid crisis legislation
The wide-ranging package known as the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 rolls up 70 bills that will be backed by about $5 billion in funding.
6 years ago
Air Date: September 14, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 48:57Mass evictions are growing more common in Philly. Here’s how to fight them.
Speculative development is on the rise in Philadelphia with many neighborhoods on the cusp of rapid gentrification.
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As PHA begins third phase of North Philly development, Temple pledges support
The new affordable-housing is a five-phase, $125 million development partially funded by a $30 million Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant from HUD.
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Philadelphia police want to turn street corners into career launch pads
“This program here will give those kids an opportunity to do the right thing.”
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Bill seeks to streamline faster wireless broadband, steamroll local control of the streetscape
Opponents, however, fear the bill will simply preempt local control of an inherently local issue.
6 years ago
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