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New Jersey to start assessing kids as young as pre-K
New Jersey joins neighbor Delaware and other states embarking on a new program to assess children as they enter kindergarten. NewsW ...
13 years ago
Dave and Frank Newport discuss the latest in election polling at the national, state and local level. ...
13 years ago
How the Navy Yard went high-tech
At the very bottom of Broad Street is an island the size of Center City. In its day, huge Navy ships were built there and re ...
13 years ago
ListenHome remedy: Doctor’s office in Camden high rise is an ER alternative
Residents of one Camden, N.J., high-rise — Northgate II — now have a new health-care option, a doctor’s office in the ground fl ...
13 years ago
ListenGood bye ivory tower, hello social media: academics struggle to make ideas accessible
Thanks to the powerful lure of social media, academia is making a big shift right now. Traditionally, academics speak their own la ...
13 years ago
ListenNew supermarket chains starting to dominate local market
New full-service supermarket chains are starting to make inroads in the region. NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller talks about the change ...
13 years ago
Chestnut Hill Book Festival focuses on local authors
This weekend is the Chestnut Hill Book Festival. NewsWorks Tonight chatted with Marie Lachat, program director of the festival abou ...
13 years ago
Phila school children self-publish book “Listen to our Voices”
The hopes, fears, and dreams of eight young black men, ages 10 to 12, from different parts of Philadelphia, are the subject of a new, sel ...
13 years ago
When Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack was arrested on federal corruption charges earlier this week, many listeners and readers closer to Ph ...
13 years ago
Mary Ellen Mark Goes to Prom, Wyebrook Farm, and The Bachelor Project
Mary Ellen Mark Goes to Prom Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Chapter 1 — From Hollywood ins ...
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PCP-laced pot known to have potentially disastrous effects
Investigators say the suspects in recent, brutal murder cases in Camden smoked a drug known as “wet” before the crimes. ...
13 years ago
A hitchhiker’s guide to making friends
Hitchhiking is alive and well in the United States. At least according to ...
13 years ago
Are new findings evidence of Amelia’s plane?
It’s been 75 years since Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, d ...
13 years ago
Philadelphia hosts national hurling championship
Athletes from around the country are in Philadelphia this weekend for the national championships of a little known sport in America — h ...
13 years ago
Charlie Gerow, longtime RNC attendee, on NewsWorks Tonight
First, following the threat of Hurricane Isaac, Republican party politics will ...
13 years ago