TRANSPORTATION - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Moroccan Uber Driver’s American Dream

Adil Tijer, an immigrant from Morocco, drives a “black car” for Uber, a service which connects riders with drivers through its mobile apps. On your correspondent’s first trip with Uber,…

March 21, 2015

CARS AND VEHICLES RECREATION TRANSPORTATION

Tooling around in midget pickup

Rob Porter used his large 90s Cadillac to haul his Daihatsu Midget II pickup truck from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the east coast to tool around in while he’s in the…

August 26, 2013

BUILDINGS HOUSING Poverty

Travelers Aid Kiosk offers some help

Chris Levey, a saturnine looking yet pleasant 3-day a week volunteer at the barren- looking Travelers Aide kiosk at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia says that Travelers Aide doesn’t offer…

July 16, 2013

NATURE RECREATION Sports

Mountain unicycles in hilly, rocky Wissahickon Valley

While taking a leisurely, easy bike ride along the relatively flat Forbidden Drive, my daughter and I were amazed to see a young man atop a unicycle on the opposite…

March 29, 2013

ANIMALS CRIME Public Safety

Mounted police on patrol in Chestnut Hill

Officers Manuel Lorenzo (left) and Carmello Oquendo (right) were patrolling Chestnut Hill along Highland Avenue astride their mounts. Lorenzo was riding Ruben, a black coated Dutch warmblood and former dressage…

January 10, 2013

CARS AND VEHICLES ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY

Testdriving new C-Max Hybrid Car

At a Devon Horse Show grounds event, we test drive the new Ford C-Max hybrid car which had just come out. Watch video drive and interview here.

October 4, 2012

NATURE RECREATION Sports

Kitesurfing rough waves

A couple guys in wetsuits were out in the surf kitesurfing on a late afternoon off the Seaside Park beach. The surf was rough and just the day before two…

July 4, 2012

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink

Philly Compost Trusts in Soil

It’s a company called Philly Compost. What they do is organic trash. So anything you can put in your mouth or anything that can compost, they take, they’ll put into…

December 22, 2011

Public Safety TRANSPORTATION WOMEN

Loving Barbados and the NYPD Scooter family

Eudene Yardehope loves her New York Police Deparment family on the traffic enforcement scooter patrol and her dual homes of America and Barbados. Watch video here.

October 23, 2011

ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT ROXBOROUGH MANAYUNK

Road kill? Not toadlets being saved by Toad Detour

WHY ARE YOU MOVING THE TOADS ACROSS THE STREET? "So they don't keep keep running over and don't keep dying out. Because they're so small it takes them a while…

June 15, 2011