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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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President Joe Biden delivers a speech. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Biden to bring infrastructure sales pitch to Pennsylvania

President Joe Biden will head to the Allentown area Wednesday as he fights for passage in the Senate of a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure measure.

5 years ago

Wilmington Alliance's Laura Semmelroth, entrepreneur Derrick Allen, and Pastor Chelsea Spyres
Community

Wilmington Kitchen Collective connects religious and corporate backers to aid culinary entrepreneurs

A rare combination of religious and corporate groups hopes to use a commercial kitchen in a church basement to support Wilmington’s future restaurateurs.

5 years ago

Listen 4:13
Gov. Tom Wolf signs the coronavirus disaster declaration. (Office of Gov. Tom Wolf)
Politics & Policy

Wolf signs bill to extend pandemic regulatory waivers

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the bill unanimously, at Wolf’s urging.

5 years ago

Claire DeMatteis is leaving her post as Delaware corrections commissioner. Monroe B. Hudson Jr. has been nominated to succeed her. (State of Delaware)
Politics & Policy

Delaware’s first female prisons chief leaving to oversee spending of $2 billion in COVID-19 stimulus money

Claire DeMatteis is moving to a new job after guiding the Department of Correction through a tumultuous four-plus years, since a prison riot left a guard dead.

5 years ago

During a meeting with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., on Wednesday, President Biden opened the door to laying aside his original proposal to help pay for infrastructure investments by raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden and Sen. Capito try again to bridge their infrastructure divide

The White House said Thursday that Biden still supports raising the tax rate, but is willing to find another measure to do it.

5 years ago

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)
Community

Ferry link means big business for beach towns in Delaware and New Jersey

New study shows the multi-million dollar impact the Cape May/Lewes Ferry has on the local economy — an impact beach businesses hope ramps up post-pandemic.

5 years ago

Artist renderings show plans for the redevelopment of the east side of the Wilmington Riverfront along the Christina River. (courtesy Friends of Riverfront Wilmington)
Urban Planning

$100 million overhaul planned for Wilmington’s ‘other’ riverfront

Delaware leaders hope to mirror the success of the Wilmington Riverfront with a massive development plan for the other side of the Christina River.

5 years ago

People, some holding signs, participate in a protest demanding Pa. pay out their unemployment benefits
Money

Unemployed Pennsylvanians demand benefits amid growing backlog of claims

Protesters, including Democratic state lawmakers, called on the Wolf administration to pay unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of residents.

5 years ago

Independence Hall in Old City. (Courtesy of Visit Philly)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly tourism expecting a big summer as COVID numbers trend down

Visit Philly has launched a tourism marketing campaign, to show people fed up with pandemic isolation where to go to enjoy the season.

5 years ago

Kensington residents protest Somerset Station's closure
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

History is repeating in Kensington. It doesn’t have to be this way

Urban anthropologist and community leader Bill McKinney charts the history of Kensington and signs of a new path forward.

5 years ago

A patient at the Vaccination clinic in McKeesport at the Bethlehem Baptist Church receives the COVID-19 vaccine
Radio Times
Health

Regional Roundup – 04/26/2021

Pa. acting Physician General Dr. Denise Johnson on vaccine hesitancy, Amazon's enormous expansion in the Delaware Valley, and springtime wildlife rehabilitation.

Air Date: April 26, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
(Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

100 Philly companies — including Comcast and Wawa — vow to diversify supply chains

The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia wants to create opportunities for smaller companies led by Black and brown entrepreneurs.

5 years ago

In this May 6, 2020 photo, a sign stands outside the Department of Labor's headquarters in Washington.
Money

Pennsylvania promises quicker, easier jobless claims system

It arrives after a series of bungled efforts to replace the system began in 2006 and culminated in a 2017 lawsuit that is still being fought in court.

5 years ago

Gov. Phil Murphy signs arts and cultural institution relief legislation at the West End Arts Center in Long Branch, New Jersey on April 8, 2021. (Edwin J. Torres/NJ Governor’s Office).
Arts & Entertainment

N.J. Gov. Murphy signs off on $15 million to aid the arts

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy has signed off on $15 million in grants to help arts and culture programs hit hard by the pandemic.

5 years ago

6901 Elmwood Avenue in Philadelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood is the proposed site of an Amazon warehouse. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Amazon rebuffs concerns over warehouse that sidelined land deal for SEPTA trolleys

Negotiations are still underway for a forthcoming community benefits agreement. Amazon said it did not intend to make major alterations to its proposal.

5 years ago

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