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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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As controller plans to review business impact of Philly soda tax, mayor doubts impartiality

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 Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, is shown in 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
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Toomey’s health care tax cut costs Pennsylvania up to $4.8 billion per year

The health care bill in the U.S. Senate is very much like the one in the House, but in one respect it is far worse, thanks to Pennsylvani ...

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 Gov. John Carney told school leaders Friday
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Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...

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 Protesters of Gov. John Carney's proposal to cut education funding by $37 million are calling on lawmakers to consider a bigger income tax increase than they are already mulling. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
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Protesters of Del. education cuts want bigger income tax increase

A small but determined group of educators, parents and advocates descended Tuesday to the steps of Legislative Hall protest Gov. John Car ...

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 José Laboy (left) takes a customer's order at Mugshots café on Fairmount Avenue. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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The small-business case for the Philly beverage tax

The soda industry has worked hard to create the perception that the ...

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Education

Soda tax benefits all, even its biggest critic

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 The budget blueprint for President Donald Trump's first budget and released by the Office of Management and Budget is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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Attacking the NEA does not put ‘America first’

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 Gov. Tom Corbett is shown addresses a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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