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The author (center) with her parents at BlerdCon. Courtesy of Joycelin Farmer.
Community

How the coronavirus put me face-to-face with familial privilege

Howard University student Joycelin Farmer wrestled with gratitude and guilt after being evicted from campus and returning to a wonderful home life.

6 years ago

Najeemah Bailey. (Photo courtesy of Najeemah Bailey)
Health

COVID-19 brings ‘cataclysmic changes’ for people giving birth in Philadelphia area

With the pandemic, more are interested in home births, some ask for induced labor, and some are coming from New York to see about having babies here.

6 years ago

Bottles of hand sanitizer made at the Eight Oaks Farm Distillery sit in a display box at the distillery in New Tripoli, Pa., Monday, March 16, 2020. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)
Health
PA Post

Pa. establishes helpline for companies that can produce critical medical supplies needed for COVID-19 response

"This portal will help facilitate the connections businesses need to get critical COVID-19-related products to market or retrofit their operations."

6 years ago

Keona Berry walks down Market Street with a protective mask on her face on Friday, March 27, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Trump declares ‘major disaster’ in Del.; Feds give N.J. 500 more ventilators

New Jersey has now been granted half of the 2,500 ventilators Gov. Phil Murphy has asked of the federal government.

6 years ago

(Courtesy Jeff Rubin)
Community
Billy Penn

Spreading the Philly love: 1,000 cheesesteaks donated to hospital workers around the region

Pat’s is sending sandwiches to medical staff in Philadelphia, Baltimore and NYC.

6 years ago

A rendering of MSB by Kling Architects (Phillyhistory.org)
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

How the Municipal Services Building became Philly’s most polarizing government tower

The Brutalist structure was once considered revolutionary.

6 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works, near Pittsburgh. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Can air pollution make coronavirus worse? Scientists say yes — possibly in both cases and severity

A few years ago, Karen Clay and two other scientists studied the death rates for the 1918 flu pandemic in the U.S.

6 years ago

One suggestion is that small businesses be given more time to turn over the sales-tax revenue they collect for the state. (NJTV News)
Money
NJ Spotlight

Business groups, state and federal programs try to help N.J’s small businesses stay afloat

The question is whether loans, grants, tax credits and expanded unemployment benefits will be able to fully meet the growing demand for help

6 years ago

President Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus this week.
(Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Setting the record straight in another week of Trump and coronavirus

Easter is next Sunday, April 12. But the country isn’t close to being “opened up” by then, as President Trump said he’d like to see during a March 24 press conference.

6 years ago

Samuel Diaz, a delivery worker for Amazon Prime, loads his vehicle with groceries from Whole Foods, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Miami, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Lynne Sladky/AP Photo)
Health

Counting toilet paper squares, composting: This how we deal with pandemic-era trash

Stay-at-home rules raise lots of new questions: How to manage all those delivery bags? Dispose of sanitizing spray and paper goods, or reuse them?

6 years ago

Listen 1:20
A rooming house on Cecil B. Moore Avenue. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
Broke in Philly

Tenants fear eviction. Landlords fear bankruptcy. How can Philly balance the two?

Tenants' rights groups want to extend a moratorium on evictions, but landlords say they're feeling the financial burden too.

6 years ago

A man walks on Market Street in Wilmington, Del., wearing a protective mask Friday March 27, 2020. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Governors urge virtual gatherings for religious holidays; N.J. deaths exceed state toll from 9/11

Another 4,331 New Jersey residents tested positive for coronavirus since Friday, and an additional 200 residents have died, the governor said.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Money
Spotlight PA

Pa. banks inundated with requests for federal small business loans intended to prevent layoffs

A new federal loan program to help small businesses weather the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak got off to a shaky start Friday.

6 years ago

(Spotlight PA)
Health
Spotlight PA

Coronavirus will accelerate EMS crisis in Pa.’s small towns and rural areas, experts say

When an EMT fell ill with the coronavirus in Upper Merion Township, the department saw its ranks suddenly dwindle. In all, 22 emergency personnel, including the fire chief.

6 years ago

What a Crock is one of several food, produce, meat and seafood stands open in the Terminal during the coronavirus lockdown 
(Mark Henninger/Imagic  Digital)
Community
Billy Penn

As Philly supermarkets feel scary and sparse, Reading Terminal Market delivers

“Once people find out we have product, they’re coming here,” said a butcher at Giunta’s Prime.

6 years ago

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