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Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.” Families, service providers and advocates are drawing attention to the likelihood that a state policy change will leave thousands of children … Continue reading "Smart Talk: Thousands of Pa kids with autism may lose access to services"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.”   Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. — a day to honor the late civil rights leader. … Continue reading "MLK Day: Reflections on “racial reckoning”"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.” A week after insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol, the FBI is warning law enforcement agencies that armed protests have been planned … Continue reading "The Capitol prepares for possible demonstrations ahead of the Inauguration"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.” *Smart Talk will be preempted today for NPR coverage of the Congressional impeachment process/deliberations/vote. The Farm Show conversation will be recorded … Continue reading "Smart Talk: Farm Show creates a virtual experience for visitors"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.” It has been almost a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S. Since that day at the end of … Continue reading "Smart Talk: COVID-19 questions answered"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.” The Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur – all genocides that have occurred over the past century. Genocide is defined … Continue reading "Smart Talk: Young Pennsylvanians don’t know much about the Holocaust and genocides"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.” While the world watches COVID ravage communities and families, another epidemic is taking its toll unabated. The disruption of the coronavirus … Continue reading "Smart Talk: Overdose deaths rise significantly during pandemic"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.”   What started as a mass demonstration against what the protestors falsely called a fraudulent 2020 presidential election turned into chaos … Continue reading "Smart Talk: U.S. Capitol breached as Congress is counting electoral votes"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.”   Pennsylvania boundaries have changed very little since the state was admitted into the union in 1787. Within the boundaries, however, a … Continue reading "Smart Talk: The urban and rural divide; how wide is the gap?"

Listen to Smart Talk every weekday at 9am and 7pm on WITF 89.5 & 93.3. You can also stream WITF radio live on our website or ask your smart speaker to “Play WITF Radio.”   Finding a place out of the cold for homeless Pennsylvanians is always a challenge as the winter months set in. Now … Continue reading "Smart Talk: Homeless Pennsylvanians suffer as the temperatures drop"