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A former Parks and Recreation Sustainability Manager argues the $11 million dollars being spent on a second trash day for parts of South Philly and Center City could be better spent.

Philadelphia's status as the nation's poorest big city is a major cause of its gunfire. In collaboration with The Trace, CitizenCast brings Mensah M. Dean's examination of race and gun violence to listeners as a three-part audio series.

Part 3 unearths the stories of two Philadelphians who were trapped in the devastating cycle of poverty and violence, but found their way out.

The first Trump administration has a "history of attacking journalists, of calling for violence against journalists, of suing and surveilling journalists, and trying to legislate against [them]." Ali Velshi's guest host, Charles Coleman Jr. invites onto the show Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer-prize-winning author and founder of the Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard University. They discuss some of the most vital battles journalists will face in the next four years.

Last week's musings about corruption in City Hall raises a lot of questions, including: What's illegal, and what's just … kinda gross?

The work of Temple researcher Dr. Anjali Rajadhyaksha is on track to radically change pain management and the opioid crisis. Citizen writer Malcolm Burnley sits down with her for a special interview.

Philadelphia gunfire has taken grandfathers, brothers, cousins, children. Intergenerational loss reflects the roots of the shooting epidemic. In collaboration with The Trace, CitizenCast brings Mensah Dean's examination of race and gun violence to listeners as a three-part audio series.

Part 2 considers the traumatic cases of former State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell.

Black Philadelphians have died at disproportionately high rates for more than a century. In collaboration with The Trace, CitizenCast brings Mensah Dean's examination of race and gun violence to listeners as a three-part audio series. Part 1 looks at the origins of the crisis through the heartbreaking story of ten-year-old Faheem Thomas-Childs.

Becky Albertalli's YA novel has been challenged and banned in several conservative states, including Florida, Texas and Utah. Ali Velshi invites Albertalli onto the Velshi Banned Book Club to talk about why her book was banned, and how so many LGBTQ stories are being target right now.

On this episode of The Fix, Larry looks at Mayor Parker's City Hall and asks, is anything being done to clean up the city's corruption problem?