Ali Velshi | Let's be honest about what genocide is
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi opens our eyes to the historical context of what's actually happening in Ukraine
Apr 11, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 786
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The C word
Let's explore how capitalism can lessen inequality and create opportunity. Fire away, Twitterverse!
Apr 08, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 785
Is Philly really ready to go carbon-free?
How, the state’s former environmental protection chief wonders, can Philadelphia achieve its carbon output goals while also favoring its own city-owned gas utility?
Apr 07, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 784
Reality Check | What can we learn from teacher unions in Chicago?
WURD host Charles Ellison talks with Dave Hardy, former CEO and Co-Founder of Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia charter school about what he describes as unreasonable demands by teacher unions in Chicago. What does this mean for Philly?
Apr 06, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 783
Devices that keep senior citizens safe
Geoff Gross’s wildly successful company, Medical Guardian, is built on simple, affordable at-home tech that gives seniors security, connectedness—and self respect.
Apr 05, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 782
Ali Velshi | The soundtrack of war
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi explains how the air raid siren is the sound that defines modern warfare.
Apr 04, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 781
Should we be drastically taxing the rich in Philly?
Councilmembers Kendra Brooks, Helen Gym and Jamie Gauthier, with an assist from Senator Elizabeth Warren, have proposed a wealth tax for Philly. But are they unwittingly harming the middle class?
Apr 01, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 780
Will Smith and slapstick masculinity
Citizen writer James Peterson unpacks that Oscar slap
Mar 31, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 779
Final bad-ass stories from Philly women
From computer programmers in the 1940s to a seminal gospel singer in the 1920s, join us for the final episode of Women's History Month All-stars
Mar 30, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 778
Pay-To-Play is legal corruption
In Philly politics, there’s stuff that’s illegal...and then there’s everything else
Mar 28, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 777
Ali Velshi | Biden was right, Putin must go
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi describes how democracy is backsliding all over the world. So he was proud when President Biden took a stand and said Vladimir Putin had to go.
Mar 28, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 776
Is our City Council anti-democratic?
On this episode of The Fix, a public corruption trial of Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and a lawsuit against Councilwoman Jamie Gauthier puts the practice of councilmanic prerogative on trial
Mar 25, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 775
Reality Check | Resolving conflict in our public schools
WURD host Charles Ellison speaks with Josh Staub, Director of Restorative Programming at the School District of Philadelphia about innovative ways to counteract the cycle of conflict between students
Mar 24, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 774
Even more bad-ass stories from Philly women
From medical school to passing the bar, meet the bad-ass women of Philly history
Mar 23, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 773
Cool streets can actually cool the air
America’s hottest city—Phoenix—lowered surface temperatures of a neighborhood by more than 10 degrees with a new water-based surface on its streets. Could Philly be next?
Mar 21, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 772
Ali Velshi | What is a war crime
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi takes us through the Laws of Armed Conflict and how they relate to both the Holocaust and Ukraine
Mar 21, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 771
Who should replace Bill Hite?
The three finalists for Philly’s new schools superintendent might very well be solid educators. But has anyone asked if that’s really what we need?
Mar 18, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 770
Philly schools and the curse of low expectations
The Philadelphia School Board is on the verge of hiring a new superintendent. But, a former Temple education professor warns, it will take more than one person to transform our schools
Mar 17, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 769
More bad-ass women of Philly history
From a rousing singer and actress to the Philadelphia Ten artists, enjoy a few stories about bad-ass women told by bad-ass women
Mar 16, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 768
Tweeting for good
Through wicked smart tweets and on-the-ground organizing, Dena Driscoll is the persistent activist we need to make a more livable Philadelphia
Mar 15, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 767
Ali Velshi | Ukrainian refugee: I am alive
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi is in Hungary speaking with one woman who describes her harrowing escape from Russian forces
Mar 14, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 766
Zelensky for mayor?
The world is getting an inspiring crash course in leadership from a former comic in Ukraine. Is anyone who aspires to lead Philadelphia paying attention?
Mar 11, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 765
Bad-ass Philly women of history
In our second week of Women's History Month All-Stars, hear a selection of five influential historical figures read by bad-ass women of today
Mar 10, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 764
Human Library
Could the answer to our disconnect be a program in 80 countries that allows you to borrow a person—a refugee, a sex worker, a police officer—and ask them anything you want?
Mar 09, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 763
Why I am proud to be Ukrainian
The Delaware County DA, a child of a Ukrainian refugee, on being inspired by those “fearlessly carrying the torch of liberty” in his mother’s homeland
Mar 08, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 762
Ali Velshi | What is a telex machine? And what is its connection to the war in Ukraine?
Citizen Board Member and MSNBC host Ali Velshi breaks down the SWIFT banking system and what weaponizing it really means
Mar 07, 2022•5 min•Season 1Ep. 761
Philly's war on restaurants
The Kenney administration’s stealth regulations on streateries shows yet more disdain for restaurateurs and their employees. Why is he vilifying frontline workers?
Mar 04, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 760
Lessons from Abbott Elementary...the sitcom
A longtime college president urges educators—and anyone who cares about public schools—to watch and learn from the popular Philly-based sitcom
Mar 03, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 759
Women's History Month All-Stars: Washington to Penn
Introducing Women's History Month All-stars: a special series about women often overlooked in history read by bad-ass women of today
Mar 02, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 758
What is a pedestrian scramble, and how could Philly streets benefit?
Protecting both pedestrians and traffic flow is at the crux of the debate over redesigning Washington Avenue, which gets a hearing Tuesday. The answer may lie in a compromise used by cities around the world.
Mar 01, 2022•6 min•Season 1Ep. 757
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