Host Matt Leon and KYW Newsradio reporters recap the biggest news in Philadelphia each week. Catch up on what you missed and dig deeper into the top stories.
The pandemic put small private colleges under i...
Enrollment is down, and small colleges rely on room and board revenue more than large universities.
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A year of extreme need: Food Bank of South Jers...
Food banks saw unprecedented demand for months on months, and the last time we checked in with the Food Bank of South Jersey, the demand was as strong as ever
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Basketball analytics for your NCAA bracket
Villanova University Business student Ethan Carpenter has done some impressive work with basketball, specifically looking at recent NCAA Tournaments and breaking down what players have the most impact.
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The vaccine matchmaker: Dr. Christine Meyer has...
It started on a snow day. Dr. Christine Meyer posted on Facebook for people to email her office if they needed help finding a vaccine. She got 1200 emails in 2 hours and the email server crashed.
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Name, image, likeness: the best way to pay stud...
College athletes generate a tremendous amount of value for their schools. How should they be compensated for that?
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Teachers and students are working through a 'ma...
Teachers have always had the challenge of dealing with a classroom of students who are all in different places when it comes to emotional and intellectual development -- but now after a year where the country has been rocked by a pandemic, the emotional needs for students will be all over the map.
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The American Rescue Plan explained
The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill called the American Rescue Plan is now law, and there is a lot inside it -- including anti poverty initiatives that have some serious teeth.
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The real household economy just got a massive b...
The American Rescue Plan is now law and just like that a lot of help is headed to some very desperate people.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on moon rockets, why COVID ...
The famed astrophysicist joins the podcast to talk about the secrets of the cosmos and what he learned from the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Drexel Dragons are going to the NCAA tourna...
The Dragons are dancing. Drexel won the Colonial Athletic Association title on Tuesday night, punching their ticket into the NCAA tournament. This will be their first appearance in the tourney since 1996.
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Doctors worried about a flu and COVID 'twindemi...
Before we got to flu season, there was a lot of concern in the medical community about the repercussions of combining a roaring pandemic with even a normal flu season. Fast forward to March, and flu cases are down dramatically across the board.
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A powerful military prevents war. 'Public healt...
Is our public health infrastructure in a better state than it was a year ago?
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The Doomsday Clock is inching closer to midnigh...
Is there a unit of measurement of 'existential threat to humanity?'
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Vaccines are just part of the battle. Good ther...
Dr. Mark DiNubile from New Jersey's BioAegis Therapeutics joins the podcast to talk about gelsolin therapy and the field of therapeutics research and development during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The calm before the stimulus and a jobs report ...
A good jobs report just came out, and we're all waiting to see if $2 trillion in stimulus money is actually going to make it into the economy. What a week!
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The fine line between caution and vaccine alarm...
Are we in danger of pushing people away from getting vaccinated because some may feel like... what’s the point?
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Smartmatic, Dominion, and the lawsuits taking a...
What are the odds that the lawsuits succeed in a court of law, and what would victory look like?
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How vaccines are made and why we can’t just mak...
The two first coronavirus vaccines, the ones made by Pfizer and Moderna have been out for months now. But the process of making them, shipping them, and getting them to people has been much choppier than most of us hoped.
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Sustainability is 'a long term play'
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How big tobacco targeted Black communities
For decades, tobacco companies targeted Black communities and young people with menthol cigarettes. That's the headline of a new report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who are trying to document the destructive impact cigarettes have and call for the banning of flavored tobacco products.
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How to make a third political party work in Ame...
What would it take to have a real, functional, impactful third political party in America that actually has a meaningful chance of being competitive in elections? Episode Summary: What would it take to have a real, functional, impactful third political party in America that actually has a meaningful chance of being competitive in elections? It's something we talk about just about every national election cycle -- but is it something that could actually happen in American politics? Dr. Joshua Weikert, Assistant Professor at Immaculata University in the Department of Civil Engagement joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about if it could happen, what party organizers would need to do to be competitive, and if we could see something like a Patriot Party or Trump Party split off from the GOP.
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“You approach people where they are.” Using kno...
“You approach people where they are.” Using knowledge and compassion to overcome vaccine hesitancy Clean title: “You approach people where they are.” Using knowledge and compassion to overcome vaccine hesitancy Episode subtitle: While a lot of us would do just about anything to get vaccinated, there are a significant number of people who are hesitant, if not outright hostile, about the vaccine. Episode Summary: The COVID-19 vaccines are here and becoming more accessible every day. And while much of the population would do just about anything to get vaccinated, there are a significant number of people who are hesitant, if not outright hostile, about the vaccine. So the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative are launching a new COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative to try and meet people where they are to try and answer the questions people have and get them to a point where vaccine hesitancy turns into confidence. Dr. Georges Benjamin, American Public Health Association Executive Director, and Michelle Hillman, Ad Council Chief Campaign Development Officer joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about how they're trying to get answers to people who have questions about vaccines.
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Is that a sign of economic recovery or are you...
As vaccinations keep ramping up and coronavirus cases keep dropping, what’s a realistic timeline for our economy to finally start building momentum again?
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FDR's radio and Trump's Tweets: Presidents and ...
It's hard to imagine Donald Trump the President, or even Donald Trump the candidate, without Twitter. Have we ever seen anything like President Trump's use of Twitter before?
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The 51st state of the United States of America
There's been momentum building behind the idea of adding states to the USA, with most of the buzz around Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. It's an interesting idea, but could it ever happen?