CURRENT AFFAIRS - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Canvasses for clean air

Victoria Carrillo solicits memberships and petition signatures door-to-door in Chestnut Hill for the Clean Air Council of Philadelphia. The long established organization advocates for recyclling, bike trails, fracking restrictions and…

May 21, 2014

BUILDINGS CURRENT AFFAIRS DEATH

Collapse attorney’s tire collapsed by pothole

Driving my daughter from Chestnut Hill to her job in Roxborough Saturday morning, we passed a man making his way on foot down the steep and treacherously narrow, icy shoulder…

February 23, 2014

CURRENT AFFAIRS HOUSING JOURNALISM

Taking a step away from homelessness

On the eve before Christmas Eve, Paul Rossetti was standing in the rain at the corner of Highland and Germantown Avenues hawking “One Step Away” newspapers for a $1 each.…

December 25, 2013

CURRENT AFFAIRS EVENTS PERSONAL GROWTH

Chabad Rabbi lights public Hanukah menorah

It appeared that Rabbi Yitzchok Gurevitz’s faith in the accuracy of the weather forecast was rewarded last evening. Skies cleared just before the public lighting of a large Hanukah menorah…

November 28, 2013

CHILDREN CURRENT AFFAIRS FAMILY

Empty Bowl Dinner fights hunger and homelessness

Twenty five percent of Philadelphians live below the poverty level. This somber statistic was delivered last night to hundreds of diners, along with delicious soups and breads donated by dozens…

November 20, 2013

CHILDREN CURRENT AFFAIRS EVENTS

“Obama, don’t deport my Mama”

The Mexican-American and Spanish speaking communities rallied in Norristown Monday evening for immigration reform. They demanded that Congress pass the immigration legislation that is now stalled and overshadowed by the…

September 11, 2013

ANIMALS CURRENT AFFAIRS LIFE + DEATH

Help find their doggie now – you did!

At the top of Forbidden Drive this Tuesday evening, Robin Gold and William Russell of Mount Airy were handing out fliers seeking help in locating their lost dog Truman. A…

August 13, 2013

CURRENT AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT LIFE + DEATH

Uplift the karmic pattern of the whole world

“When certain events take place like this festival of Hidden City or different things like that. I don’t know if you’re part of Occupy but it tends to bring people…

July 17, 2013

CURRENT AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT FOOD + DRINK

Bhutan refugees renew farming in Philly

At the age of six, Bishnu Kamar (left) fled her native Bhutan where, she says, the government was trying to kill its own people. She lived the next twenty-two years…

June 3, 2013

CURRENT AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL MILITARY

Korean laundress wary yet hopeful about Koreas

Christina Lee of BonLynn Cleaners was listening to a Korean language radio station when I asked her about the current tense situation in the Koreas. Lee came to the U.S.…

April 27, 2013