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To say Scott Walker, the GOP nominee for Delaware's long congressional seat, is an unorthodox candidate is a serious understatement. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

GOP nominee for lone Del. congressional seat is not your typical candidate

Scott Walker’s campaign is the solitary quest of one peculiar man who rides around in a ramshackle jalopy that doubles as a billboard.

8 years ago

Listen 4:02
The United States Capitol building against a blue sky
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Outside groups spend $4.3M on Philly-area congressional races

SuperPACs focus on four of the 15 congressional races in the region.

8 years ago

Listen 3:26
 This 2009 handout photo released by a friend of Xiyue Wang, shows Xiyue Wang at his apartment in Hong Kong, China. (Friend of Xiyue Wang via AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

U.N. group calls on Iran to release Princeton graduate student

Xiyue Wang's wife created the petition that led the U.N. group to consider his case. She said she has struggled over two years to maintain a normal life for her son.

8 years ago

Listen 1:47
DCNR forester Ben Gamble, left, and Kelly Sitch, right, an ecologist for the agency, on a pipeline right-of-way in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front)
NewsWorks Tonight
Science
Allegheny Front

Bringing the forest back after shale gas

The Pennsylvania DCNR is testing how best to revive areas cleared for fracking.

8 years ago

Listen 4:23
Mayor Kenney speaks at annual budget address. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly’s construction tax is dead and Kenney wants to pay for affordable housing with cash from abatements

For the mayor’s proposal to move forward, the construction tax’s sponsors would have to recall the construction tax bill on Thursday, Sept 13.

8 years ago

Listen 2:16
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Philly hospital finds depression treatment stops memory loss in African-Americans

Therapists treating depression use the method involving intentional goal setting to increase cognitive, social and physical activity.

8 years ago

Listen 2:10
Gymnast Jessica Howard, who was sexually abused by USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, speaks on behalf of the victims of Catholic priests, urging Pennsylvania to adopt a law that would suspend the statute of limitations in claims of child sexual abuse. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Survivors of child sex abuse again push Pa. to suspend statute of limitations

Lawmakers are also urged to provide a two-year window for past victims to file civil charges retroactively.

8 years ago

Listen 1:47
Gov. John Carney signed three bills aimed at addressing Delaware's opioid crisis. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Gov. Carney signs legislation establishing nation’s first overdose care system

Carney signed three pieces of legislation Monday aimed at addressing overdose deaths.

8 years ago

Listen 1:41
Left: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)
Right: Scott Wallace (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Fitzpatrick running as moderate, trying to hold onto Bucks seat for GOP

With millions of dollars pouring into the district, Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District race is one of the races to watch during the 2018 midterm elections.

8 years ago

Listen 5:45
Hickman Temple AME Church, its facade reinforced and its doors open for its first Sunday service since April 2017. ( Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Hickman Temple AME celebrates a win in the effort to preserve its historic church

Observers of Philadelphia’s real estate scene know how this story usually goes.

8 years ago

Listen 3:37
In Wilma Theater's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Kill Move Paradise’ and ‘Stifters Dinge’

A brilliantly conceived new play and a sensory experience.

8 years ago

Listen 2:50
Miss North Dakota Cara Mund is congratulated by contestants after being named Miss America during Miss America 2018 pageant, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in Atlantic City, N.J.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Waving off critics, Miss America prepares for contest without swimsuit competition

Miss America's new leader has been pilloried for ending the iconic swimsuit segment of the contest

8 years ago

Listen 5:26
Soybeans grow at Rutgers University experimental farm in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Gallup polling finds Americans favor  industries connected to food – restaurant, farming, grocery. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community
What Are We Thinking?

Americans like food and farming industries — but not pharma, oil or gas

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

Listen 4:59
At left, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, a three-term Democratic incumbent, will face Republican challenger Rob Arlett in the Nov. 6 general election. Both easily won their primary races Thursday. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Arlett takes on Sen. Carper, who won’t take Delaware election ‘for granted’

The primaries are over, and now Delaware’s U.S. Senate nominees are preparing for a two-month sprint to the Nov. 6 general election. ...

8 years ago

Listen 2:03
Volunteer dancers rehearse for their perfomance of
Arts & Entertainment

A ‘Super Grand’ flash mob set to take over Philly art museum steps

Le Super Grand Continental - a massive dance by non-professionals - will be performed this weekend on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

8 years ago

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