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Quirk Books, Greening Philadelphia, Tea Time
Quirk Books Producer: Michael O’Reilly Quirk Books is headquartered on a quiet cobblestone street in ...
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Religious leaders react as Trump relaxes rule on mixing politics and pulpit
Last summer, Pennsylvania pastor Gary Dull was one of the hundreds of evangelical Christians who filled a ballroom in New York City to he ...
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ListenPew: States should reassess whether tax breaks work as bait for business
Every state in the country offers tax breaks and other incentives to lure businesses that will create jobs. One estimate found the progra ...
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The new host of PBS’s Washington Week grew up in Yardley, Pa.
Covering Congress and the White House is a busy gig these days. But it’s a job Washington Post reporter Robert Costa has embr ...
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How many bookstores can you visit in a single day?
After the advent of big box store booksellers and online retail giants, small independent bookstores learned to survive – not by se ...
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ListenDads are wired to ‘mother’ too
Fathers don’t just function as male mothers — they provide a kind of caregiving that’s unique to dads. When Eric Ben ...
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ListenFreeloading mother birds force others to raise their hatchlings
The brown-headed cowbird is one of the most hated birds in the entirety of the animal kingdom. Each springtime, when most bi ...
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ListenHow one mom got through losing her first pregnancy
One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...
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ListenThe ‘baby penalty’ often sidelines female scientists
Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...
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ListenLack of doctors puts rural mothers and babies at risk
Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...
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ListenWhat happens when you mix an NFL draft with watercolors
Art is having a hard time competing with football. The NFL draft has taken over most of the Parkway, as well as the famous Rocky s ...
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Emily Cobb: Designer + Maker, Jewelry & Objects
Producer: Michael O’Reilly It’s not every artist who sees a sketch from the archives of the Wagner ...
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N.J. advocacy wants spectrum sale money for local news fund
Free Press Action Fund is calling on the New Jersey legislature and governor to invest a portion of the state’s FCC-auction windfal ...
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Unearthing stories hidden in the bones of a forgotten burial ground
It was bound to happen in a city as old as Philadelphia. Last fall, in the heart of the nation’s first capital and just a st ...
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ListenIt’s a rollercoaster raising a transgender child in the spotlight
In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...
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