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Debating 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
ListenSome suggestions about how we can live with guns
Gun control hardly came up during the 2012 election. Obama briefly mentioned an assault weapons ban in one of the debates but neither G ...
Air Date: December 12, 2012
ListenPhilly legal shenanigans: DA’s cash machine & Traffic Court ticket-fixing
On today’s Radio Times, we look at two recent investigative reports raising questions about two different parts of the legal system in ...
Air Date: December 6, 2012
ListenPA Task Force on Child Protection, post-Sandusky
The Pennsylvania Task Force on Child Protection has been meeting for 10 mo ...
Air Date: December 5, 2012
ListenWilliam Ecenbarger on the ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal
Between 2003 and 2008, Luzerne County juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarelli sentenced thousands of children who committed minor offenses t ...
Air Date: November 26, 2012
ListenA look at today’s changing drug laws
Last week Colorado and Washington voters passed ballot initiatives in support of the use of legal recreational marijuana. This is in addi ...
Air Date: November 16, 2012
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