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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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One of Doylestown's decorative street lamps near the intersection of Main and State streets. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Bill seeks to streamline faster wireless broadband, steamroll local control of the streetscape

Opponents, however, fear the bill will simply preempt local control of an inherently local issue.

8 years ago

Listen 3:44
The women farmers of the Circuito Agroecológico Aiboniteño work together to build a swale on a guava orchard. (Paige Pfleger/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

After Maria, farmers build resilience through sustainability

In Puerto Rico, a group of farmers help each other rebuild and prepare for the coming hurricane season.

8 years ago

Listen 7:06
Rosa Elena Mastache Dominguez looks out at the beach through a door that once led to the back of her family home. Hurricane Maria shrunk the beach behind her home, then another storm brought waves that destroyed the structure. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Eroding beaches weaken Puerto Rico’s storm defenses

More than half of the island's beaches are losing sand. That's a problem when most of the population lives along the coast.

8 years ago

Listen 7:28
In the days after the hurricane, Mariana Ortiz-Blanes documented the devastation around her family home. She took photos and short videos — then sent them to her daughter in Philadelphia — as Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico. Photo Credit: Mariana Ortiz-Blanes
The Pulse
Science

Surviving Maria — from 1,500 miles away

As hurricane winds swept across Puerto Rico, journalist Syra Ortiz-Blanes watched from Philadelphia, unsure if her family back home was safe.

8 years ago

Listen 5:53
Workers from the power company, PREPA, work on a downed line in Utuado. Branches from a tree fell on the line, breaking it and causing a transformer to explode. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Enemy No. 1 for Puerto Rico’s utility: trees

One of the most complicated pieces of technology — the power grid — is no match for the forest.

8 years ago

Listen 7:28
(Lucy Perkins / 90.5 WESA)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health
WESA

Before Roe: How Pa. hospitals used a legal loophole to provide abortions

The emergency room at was a very different place 40 years ago than it is today.

8 years ago

Listen 4:00
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., (left), next to Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., questions President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, as he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, on the second day of his confirmation hearing to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Sen. Booker defies rule, releases confidential Kavanaugh emails

Booker called it an act of civil disobedience.

8 years ago

A still from a recent campaign ad attacking Pa. Dem. congressional candidate Scott Wallace (YouTube)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Ryan super PAC invests in Bucks County congressional race

A super PAC associated with GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan has put nearly half a million dollars into ads attacking Bucks Democratic congressional candidate Scott Wallace.

8 years ago

Listen 4:13
The Thompson family who moved to the U.S. from Jamaica to escape threats from gangs has lived in South Jersey for 12 years. After Oneita and her husband Clive received deportation notices, they moved into sanctuary at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Two more families choose sanctuary in a Philly church over separation, deportation

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a policy of avoiding arrests in “sensitive locations,” which include houses of worship.

8 years ago

Listen 2:37
Cathy Stone (right), executive director of the Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County, holds up a headline-grabbing example of domestic abuse during a press conference to promote Pensylvania House Bill 2060, which prohibits abusers from possessing guns. She is joined by (from left) Sara Wallace of Moms Demand Action and state Rep. Leanne Krueger-Braneky, a co-sponsor of the bill. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Bill to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers stalled in Pa.

The bill passed the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously in March, but the House version never came up for a vote.

8 years ago

Listen 2:06
Stockton University,  Galloway Township. campus. (Anthony Smedile for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Did Stockton U. do enough to protect students from members of ‘rogue fraternity’?

A woman filed a lawsuit Monday in N.J. st. court alleging she was sexually assaulted by a member of an off-campus fraternity at Stockton U., making it the fifth of the summer.

8 years ago

Listen 5:36
Isaac Gardner speaks while holding up a photo of David Jones
Courts & Law

Former Philly cop charged with fatally shooting Germantown man in the back

A former Philadelphia police officer has been indicted in the deadly shooting a 30-year-old Germantown man in the back last year.

8 years ago

Listen 2:15
DJ Gleason and the ensemble in the Act II Playhouse production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

In Act II Playhouse’s ‘Biloxi Blues,’ a production that becomes a tribute

Days after Neil Simon died, the theater in Ambler opened his Tony-award winning show.

8 years ago

Listen 3:46
(From left), Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrive at the Capitol for a procedural vote on an appropriations measure, in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Kavanaugh hearing a test for Sen. Cory Booker in new role

'We’re preparing for this like everything is at stake,' Booker says of confirmation hearings beginning Tuesday.

8 years ago

Listen 6:24
Derron Farmer sees plastic bags  as a necessary evil. (Aaron Moselle/WHYY)
Lifestyle

Many consumers support New Jersey proposal to ban plastic bags

Outlawing the plastic bags would mean some inconvenience, shoppers say. But most see the environmental advantage of the proposal.

8 years ago

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