The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio

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.

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Election 2020: Why is Pennsylvania taking so l...
It looks like Election 2020 could come down to Pennsylvania, but why is it taking so long to count the votes?
13 min
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Did anyone really get it right? Takeaways from ...
With the benefit of hindsight, let's zoom out a bit out and take a look at all the ways that different countries tackled this pandemic. Can we Frankenstein together a single best approach?
19 min
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How the 2016 polling kerfuffle inspired the Wes...
After the presidential election polls seemed to get it wrong in 2016, a West Chester University statistics professor saw an opportunity.
12 min
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Constitutional quirks, election oddities, and t...
Take a deep dive down the rabbit hole into plausible if unlikely situations in the US election process and the "what would happen if" scenarios the founders didn't necessarily plan for.
19 min
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It's the witching hour on Wall Street
Something weird is happening in the stock market.
12 min
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Trump, Biden, and the paths to 270: the electio...
What are the key indicators you should be looking for on November 3rd to get an idea of how the election is turning out?
19 min
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Important lessons about medical debt learned f...
Medical debt is scary, but it doesn't have to ruin your life, and there are steps you can take to come out on the other side.
22 min
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With the holidays and flu season around the cor...
With flu season and the holidays right around the corner, there's going to be a lot of extra symptoms floating around, and a lot of anxiety about making the decision to spend time with loved ones.
20 min
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The economic inequality crisis: how the pandemi...
Economic inequality has been a stark issue in the United States for a long time, and it has just gotten worse and worse during the coronavirus pandemic.
28 min
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The police shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr: What...
Walter Wallace, Jr. was shot and killed by Philadelphia Police officers who responded to a call about a man with a knife.
19 min
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There's more water on the moon than we thought
Pack your swimmies and flippers 'cause there's big news from the moon.
15 min
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Term limits, adding justices, and other plausib...
It's not as far-fetched as you might think to imagine Supreme Court Justices with term limits in our lifetime.
15 min
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What's going on with the Philly area real estat...
After more than seven months into the pandemic, how's the market holding up and what's happening in the Philly area specifically?
17 min
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Liability shields, housing bubbles, and how the...
We've been watching a housing market that's been absolutely on fire for months now -- is it time to start talking about a housing bubble?
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The Supreme Court's decision on Pennsylvania ma...
Pennsylvania will be allowed to count mail-in ballots for this year's election that are received up to three days after November 3rd, after legal challenges made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
10 min
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COVID testing in the US right now is 'somewhere...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is calling for a coordinated national testing strategy to try and help get us out of this mess.
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Do presidential debates change minds anymore? ...
If you showed the debate between Biden and Trump to someone 50 years ago, what would they think?
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What an asteroid 200 million miles away can tel...
Dr. Harold Connolly, Jr., Mission Sample Scientist on the OSIRIS-REx mission team joined the podcast just a few hours before the spacecraft made contact with the asteroid to talk about the mission and the secrets the team hopes Bennu wants to tell.
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After the explosion, what's the future of the P...
A fire, an explosion, a bankruptcy, a new owner... what does the future have in store for a massive and troubled piece of land in South Philadelphia?
14 min
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How close are we to COVID-19 herd immunity?
We talk a lot about herd immunity -- so how does it work, and what happened in other places around the world that have tried to use herd immunity as a strategy?
24 min
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Long term unemployment is helping to turbochar...
Hiding in the unemployment statistics is the rising number of people who are experiencing long-term unemployment -- they've been out of work for 27 weeks or more.
19 min
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How long until election results are final? When...
A ton of information has been sent out about voting by mail, along with a lot of disinformation. So what's true, what's not, and what do you need to know?
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If Washington doesn't finish a relief bill, 202...
Towns and municipalities are grappling with some extremely hard decisions if Washington doesn't send relief soon. 
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Political campaigns are microtargeting you with...
Ever feel like ads you see online are almost designed specifically for you?
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For firefighters, the pandemic has changed the job
23 min