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GUESTS: RICHARD FELDMAN and ROBERT SPITZER Vice President Biden is in Philadelphia today to hold ...
Air Date: February 11, 2013
ListenThe Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about ...
Air Date: February 6, 2013
ListenPhilly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey; then Barbara Laker on ‘Tainted Justice’ 4 years later
Philadelphia Police Commissioner CHARLES RAMSEY ...
Air Date: February 6, 2013
Listen‘Pull of Gravity,’ a documentary about re-entry after prison
Seven hundred thousand inmates are released from U.S. prisons each year. A new documentary film funded by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in ...
Air Date: January 31, 2013
ListenImmigration reform: reaction and response
Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced his blueprint for immigration reform in response to a set of principles laid out by a bipa ...
Air Date: January 30, 2013
ListenDebating mental health legislation after Newtown massacre
The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but ...
Air Date: January 25, 2013
ListenWilliam Ecenbarger on the ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal
[REBROADCAST] Between 2003 and 2008, Luzerne County juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarelli sentenced thousands of children ...
Air Date: January 17, 2013
ListenGuns & gun laws, after Newtown, CT: US, PA, Philly
In advance of President Obama’s much anticipated news conference later this morning outlining his agenda regarding gun and safety regul ...
Air Date: January 16, 2013
ListenJournalist Mark Bowden on “The Finish” of Osama bin Laden
[REBROADCAST] Journalist MARK BOWDEN r ...
Air Date: January 11, 2013
ListenForty years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the historic case that made abortion legal in the United States. The ...
Air Date: January 9, 2013
ListenGov. Corbett’s suit vs. the NCAA over Penn State/Sandusky penalties
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett sued the NCAA last week on behalf of the Commonwealth, claiming that the governing body for college spo ...
Air Date: January 8, 2013
ListenThe six men accused of gang raping and killing a 23-year-old Indian woman were formally charged last week. The horrific attack has set of ...
Air Date: January 7, 2013
ListenA look at today’s changing drug laws
[REBROADCAST] Recently Colorado and Washington voters passed ballot initiatives in support of the use of legal recreatio ...
Air Date: January 1, 2013
ListenGun violence in cross-hairs, in Philly & U.S.
As many families gathered over the holidays, the issue most hotly debated and discussed was guns and gun violence in the United States. W ...
Air Date: December 27, 2012
ListenDownsizing the Pentagon budget; then, what suicide bombers & rampage shooters have in common
Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at t ...
Air Date: December 19, 2012
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