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Gift of Life Donor Program's Transplant Information Center gets a call every time someone dies in a hospital in its service area.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Organ donations from drug overdose victims rising with opioid death toll

Inside the Gift of Life Donor Program’s headquarters in Philadelphia, a room serves as a sort of mission control for organ donation.

8 years ago

Listen 5:11
Richard
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Services set for journalist ‘Sonny’ Driver, who spurred Philly to rename road for MLK

Driver founded the Scoop U.S.A. newspaper for the African-American community, and promoted jazz in Philadelphia. He died last month at 91.

8 years ago

Listen 2:23
Phoenix Best plays Eponine in the national Broadway tour of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Phoenix Best, straight to Broadway and now playing her home town

The actress, from Philadelphia's Mt. Airy, graduated from DeSales University and became a Broadway understudy only a month after arriving in New York.

8 years ago

Listen 4:38
A five-year mural project covers the facade of the McClure School in North Philadelphia with colorful mosaics designed by students.
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Once marred by violence, a North Philly schoolyard now blossoms

Six years after a man was gunned down on the playground at Alexander McClure Elementary School, an effort to adorn the building with colorful mosaics is underway.

8 years ago

Listen 1:46
Guthrie Conygham, manger of ACCT’s off-site adoption unit, holds Missy, an adoptable kitten, at City Hall. (Kyrie Greenberg for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

New Philly coalition aims to end euthanization of pets at shelter

Last year, 18,000 animals were surrendered to the Philadelphia shelter.

8 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf announcing his declaration of a 'State of Emergency' to deal with the opioid epidemic
Politics & Policy

Gov. Tom Wolf declares ‘state of emergency’ in Pa. opioid epidemic

There will be a command center at the state's emergency management headquarters in Harrisburg and provide wider access to the prescription drug monitoring program.

8 years ago

Listen 5:38
Charles Howard is shown in Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Speak Easy
Community

Continuing King’s fight, with love in the age of hate

This year, we as a nation should not celebrate King Day. It’s not that Dr. King does not deserve this national holiday. It is America that does not deserve to celebrate him.

8 years ago

Waliyyuddin Abdullah drops off daughter Florrie, a first grader, at Powel School in West Philadelphia. Abdullah chose Powel over his neighborhood school in North Philadelphia.
Education

The Philly school choice system no one is talking about

Every year, thousands of Philadelphia families choose a traditional public school outside their neighborhood. So is that a good thing, a bad thing or something else?

8 years ago

Listen 5:42
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie waves to lawmakers before delivering his final state of the state address at the Statehouse in Trenton Tuesday. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Video of Governor Chris Christie's final State of the State address

Outgoing Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that New Jersey needed “tough and plain-spoken leadership” when he took office e ...

8 years ago

Listen 5:32
Philadelphia's new poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia names new poet laureate

Raquel Salas Rivera, a gender-fluid, Puerto Rican writer, has been named Philadelphia's new city poet laureate.

8 years ago

Listen 2:24
New Jersey State Prison in Trenton.
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

New Jersey lifts prison ban on ‘The New Jim Crow,’ a popular book on mass incarceration

The New Jersey Department of Corrections has lifted a ban on the book “The New Jim Crow” at two of its prisons, following a complaint from the state chapter of the ACLU.

8 years ago

Listen 2:10
Ed Zaleski, pictured with his sons in a family photo, was found dead in his jail cell at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility hours after he was arrested.
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Family demands answers after Philly man addicted to heroin dies hours after incarceration

Three-quarters of Philly's prison inmates have a history of substance addiction. Is the system equipped to help them?

8 years ago

Listen 4:42
Homeless men crowd into the dining room of the Sunday Breakfast Association, where a prayer service was being held.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Bitter cold sparks continuing Philly efforts to shelter homeless

Through Monday morning, the warming center at Cione Recreation will be open 24 hours a day —.and no ID is necessary to come inside.

8 years ago

Listen 1:36
In the most recent Gallup polling, 74 percent of Americans rated the U.S. Postal Service as excellent. Overall, those polled approve of federal agencies, but not the U.S. government.  (Matt Rourke/AP, file)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Majority like U.S. agencies — but not government, Gallup poll finds

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 6:53
Spring Garden School is one of several schools whose outdated heating system would cost more to repair than to replace.
Education

Heating problems in Philly schools rise as temperatures plunge

Philadelphia School District facilities workers have been on the job since Christmas to fix faulty heating units. It's a $70M problem.

8 years ago

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