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‘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

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Immigration 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

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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

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William 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

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Guns & 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

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Journalist Mark Bowden on “The Finish” of Osama bin Laden

[REBROADCAST] Journalist MARK BOWDEN r ...

Air Date: January 11, 2013

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Forty years since Roe v. Wade

Forty 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

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Gov. 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

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Violence against women

The 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

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A 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

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Gun 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

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Downsizing 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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Some 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

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Philly 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

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PA 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

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