Sign In

|

NBC10 weather

Storms set to arrive Thursday

May 21

Cooper time capsule

What new med school is preserving

May 21

La Salle University

President will step down in 2014

May 21

THE FEED:
BREAKING
NEWS BLOG

Powered by WHYY and You

NEWSWORKS TONIGHT

Listen to Full Shows

Subscribe to Podcast

NWT Full Show, Jan. 31, 2012

January 31, 2012

By Kimberly Haas

Rate This:

1
2
3
4
5

(0 votes)

Ask a question

Download Audio File »

For NewsWorks content parter "It's Our Money," Holly Otterbein looks at the new Philadelphia City Council President's ideas to raise money for the city. The raw milk controversy is heating up in Pennsylvania and Taunya English reports. For "That's History," Chris Satullo and the Pennsylvania Historical Society's Jon Zimmerman look at the role of religion in sports. Dave Heller talks with a local new business owner who learned a lesson with Groupon.

Support local journalism. Make your gift today. Become a member.

Use the pulldown to filter comments based on other users' ratings:

Your comment

Top Stories

Philly picks would-be Traffic Court judges

May 22 - Holly Otterbein, @hollyotterbein

Earlier this year, a federal grand jury indicted several Philadelphia Traffic Court judges in an allegedly widespread ticket-fixing plot. That didn't stop Philadelphians from nominating candidates for Traffic Court judge in Tuesday's primary election. More »

Butkovitz rolls after nasty Philly controller race

May 21 - Dave Davies @DaveDaviesWHYY

After a bruising primary campaign, Philadelphia's Democratic City Controller Alan Butkovitz easily won renomination over two-time challenger Brett Mandel and former city attorney Mark Zecca in a low-turnout election. With over 95 percent of the vote More »

Sitting at work no good, so GSK employees try standing and new treadmill desks

May 21 - Zack Seward, @zackseward

More people seem to be ditching office chairs in favor of standing desks. A recent article in the New Yorker even tackled the trend of treadmill desks. A mounting body of research suggests that sitting is More »

Pa. Common Core standards took heat, now adoption delayed

May 21 - Mary Wilson

Blogs

Shapiro on Theater

Howard Shapiro

Reviews: "The Misanthrope" and "Othello" -- thoroughly modern, thoroughly not :
Who says you have to be old-fashioned to be classic? More »

Ground Level

Nicole Juday

Garden Rx:
It's been a lovely spring; the dogwood and azalea flowers More »

Behind the Lines

Tony Auth

Burn, baby, burn!:
The Republicans have been tormenting Obama for his entire presidency. More »

Dave Davies Off Mic

Dave Davies

Butkovitz rolls after nasty Philly controller race:
After a bruising primary campaign, Philadelphia's Democratic City Controller Alan More »

The Philadelphia Experiment

Solomon Jones

Students march for schools, but where are the adults?:
The estimated 1,000 high-school students who marched Broad Street to More »

National Interest

Dick Polman

Republican overreach and the lessons of '98:
Republicans currently in thrall to the scandal trifecta would be More »

Centre Square

Chris Satullo

IRS' Tea Party scrutiny was a huge blunder, but a deeper issue lurks beneath:
Let's try to do something that Washington has a hard More »

Brandywine to Broad

Jan C. Ting

Why the IRS scandal is both not as bad, and also much worse, than it seems.:
If an advertising agency gets money from clients to produce More »

Lightning Rod

Faye Flam

Historian: Voyager spacecraft marked new age of discovery:
Some are baffled and others saddened by the fact that More »

More Blogs »