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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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U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat of Delaware talks with the Washington Post's Michael Gerson and Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee at the U.S. Global Leadership forum in Wilmington Friday. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Coons, Corker tout importance of global leadership at Wilmington forum

U.S. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware has made a name for himself of late as someone who tries to coax his Republican colleagues out of march ...

8 years ago

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Fair Workweek legislation

Guests: Helen Gym, Earlene Bly, Mark Price, Melissa Bova Hourly workers in the hotel, retail and fast-food indust ...

Air Date: November 13, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:49
New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer and West End Neighborhood House executive director Paul Calistro listen as Bright Spot Farms director Sindhu Siva describes the work needed to grow poinsettias at the New Castle farm. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

New funds to bolster youth job training in Delaware

The Delaware program is part of Citi Foundation's Pathways to Progress initiative that will devote $100 million to support youth job training nationwide over three years.

8 years ago

Technical.ly spent the better part of a week reporting on Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Robert Torres/Technical.ly)
Money
Broke In Philly

Soft skills, tech jobs: What Philly can learn from Albuquerque’s anti-poverty push

Technical.ly traveled to Albuquerque, N.M., to find what has worked — and what hasn't — in that city's approach to workforce development.

8 years ago

Shirley Armstead poses in front her E. Vernon Road storefront office. (Bastiaan Slabbers for PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Don’t call it Cedarbrook: Mount Airy shopping district gets a facelift

This week, a new chapter began with the ribbon-cutting on a $310,000 revitalization project.

8 years ago

The Gallery mall covered three blocks on Market Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Urban Planning

The Gallery: Past, Present, and Future

Our very first episode considers the forces that shaped the Gallery mall in Philadelphia, and what forces will shape its future incarnation.

Air Date: October 23, 2018

Listen 14:56
A Passyunk Square municipal complex is slated for redevelopment. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

City to redevelop industrial corner of booming Passyunk Square

Philadelphia officials are looking for a developer to remake a valuable tract of city-owned land just off South Philly's thriving East Passyunk corridor.

8 years ago

New legislation will make it easier for the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the Delaware River. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Federal dredging measure will help expansion efforts at Port of Wilmington

The quicker dredging process will accelerate Gulftainer's development of a secondary port at the former DuPont Edgemoor site north of the existing port.

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello, who represents a suburban area west of Philadelphia, voted in favor of the
Politics & Policy

While nation watched Kavanaugh hearings, House passed ‘Tax Cuts 2.0’

Running on tax cuts would normally unite Republicans, but 2018 is not turning out to be a normal year.

8 years ago

Swiss-based Datwyler's new facility in Middletown, Delaware is the company's first facility in the U.S. to feature its
Community

Swiss-based Datwyler opens $100 million Delaware factory

A first-of-its-kind medical supply manufacturing site in Middletown will eventually employ 120 workers in an ultra-clean assembly line.

8 years ago

Eunice LaFate quizzes Andrew Cercena about the new golf cart taxi service he's starting for  Buccini/Pollin Group. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Developer tees up golf cart taxi service in downtown Wilmington

There's a new way to get around as the Delaware city's central business district moves out of the rough

8 years ago

Listen 1:55
Port of Wilmington
Community

UAE-based Gulftainer signs 50-year lease for Port of Wilmington

As part of the deal, Gulftainer will upgrade facilities and expand the Port of Wilmington, potentially creating hundreds of jobs along the way.

8 years ago

Listen 1:15
Offshore wind turbines are seen in this file image. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, file)
Down the Shore
Community

N.J. begins nation’s largest single-state solicitation of offshore wind projects

New Jersey officials on Monday kicked off the nation's largest single-state solicitation of offshore wind projects.

8 years ago

Beach goers taking in the sun. (Bill Barlow/for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Money
NJ Spotlight

How to boost Jersey Shore tourism: End state diversion of revenue for a start

The state’s lucrative tourism industry could get a significant bump if it stretched out its prime shore season past the summer months.

8 years ago

Listen 5:21
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Vendors keep working despite L&I crackdown at Made in America

8 years ago

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