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#50: The Thing About Suburban Station Apr 15, 2019

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Store owners in Suburban Station have a problem. Crime, drug use, and homelessness is up, they tell KYW Newsradio, and business is down. Way down. And they think it started when a homeless outreach center in the station expanded its services. Today on the podcast, Justin Udo takes their concerns to the city, SEPTA police, and the Hub of Hope, three different organizations with a lot invested in Suburban Station. He found a lot of different ideas -- about solutions to the situation, and even about what the problem is to begin with. Follow Justin on Twitter at @JustinUdo, and check out his article about Suburban Station on kywnewsradio.com Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownPod. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#49: Ghost Guns Mar 25, 2019

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Operation Stone Wall started as an investigation into a cocaine ring in South Jersey. One year later, New Jersey's attorney general says four people in that ring became the very first to be charged under a new law criminalizing ghost gun trafficking. This week on Scroll Down, Steve Tawa and Kristen Johanson tell us about ghost guns, how Operation Stone Wall developed, and what's next for New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Read Steve's article about Operation Stone Wall on kywnewsradio.com Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownPod. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#48: Free Peter Biar, Part 2 Mar 04, 2019

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Listen to the first part of this story in episode 40, anywhere you get your podcasts, or on kywnewsradio.com Peter Biar Ajak has been in a notorious prison in South Sudan for the last 7 months. Friends of the jailed peace activist and political prisoner say his situation has gotten worse since we talked to them last, back in September of 2018. Follow the effort to free Peter on Twitter: @FreePeterBiar and on Facebook: @FreePeterBiar Tim Jimenez (@timjradio) helped bring Peter's story to the podcast today. Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the podcast on Twitter: @ScrollDownPod, and you can follow Tom on Twitter at @teerick. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#47: Runaway Cows and Refugees Feb 11, 2019

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One of the things Old First Church is known for is the live animal nativity scene around Christmas time. Every December, you could walk by the church in Old City and look at the animals. This lasted for 40 years. Right until the Christmas of 2017. Today on the podcast, John McDevitt and Andrew Kramer join Scroll Down to tell the story of how a Philly church's New Year's Eve service radically transformed after a cow decided to cross I-95. John McDevitt is on Twitter at @JM1060 Andrew Kramer tweets at @Philly_Kramer Check out John's story about the refugee nativity: CLICK HERE Andrew wrote some words about it too: CLICK HERE Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert at the KYW Newsradio podcast factory in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Listen to us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#46: Hiring, Bachelor's Degree, $11/Hour Jan 21, 2019

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"The ugly duckling of education" isn't looking so ugly anymore. Teachers and students at a South Jersey trade school say today's high schoolers watched how the Millennials piled up college degrees -- and the mountains of debt that went with them -- and are deciding to follow a different path. And the state of New Jersey wants to help. Today on Scroll Down, Mike Dougherty (@MicDougherty) talks about what he found at the Gloucester County Institute of Technology, and why Generation Z is embracing the trades. Mike's article on kywnewsradio.com: CLICK HERE Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW and you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#45: Stop Recycling Pizza Jan 07, 2019

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When KYW Newsradio's Mike DeNardo came back from touring a recycling plant in Philadelphia, we quickly realized that a lot of what we thought we knew about recycling... was just plain wrong. This week on Scroll Down: the international intrigue that determines what actually happens after you put your blue bin on the sidewalk, and the top five things you can recycle to ruin it for everyone. Mike DeNardo is on Twitter: @_MikeDeNardo Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW and you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#44: Guys Like Us Dec 17, 2018

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Today on the podcast, Scroll Down producer Charlotte Reese visits the secret headquarters of an animal rescue organization, to talk with Wolf, the tattooed biker responsible for saving thousands of abused animals and nursing them back to health. Find out more about Justice Rescue at their website, justice-rescue.com. Scroll Down is made in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. Today's show was reported and produced by Charlotte Reese (@creese28). Tom Rickert (@teerick) is Scroll Down's executive producer. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @ScrollDownPod. Thanks for listening! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#43: Digging Up Bodies Dec 01, 2018

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Dr. Erin Kimmerle digs up bodies. She's carefully picked through mass graves in Kosovo and Croatia to identify victims of war crimes. She did the same thing in Peru, where men, women, and children were executed by the military forty years ago. She dug up the bones of young boys murdered at a Florida reform school. And this summer, she came to Philadelphia, to dig up bodies. Kristen Johanson (@KristenJohanson) joins the podcast today to talk about how forensic anthropology hopes to solve decades old cold cases, even when the victims are unidentified. Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the podcast on Twitter: @ScrollDownPod, and you can follow Tom on Twitter at @teerick. Kristen and Tom make a true crime podcast about unsolved murders in Philadelphia. You can follow the podcast on Twitter (@GoneColdPhilly) and to listen to the episodes CLICK HERE or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Update - #23: Stories of Our Heroes Nov 10, 2018

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We're celebrating Veterans Day in America, when we honor the men and women who have put on a uniform for the United States. Many of us have someone close who has served -- a family member, a friend, a coworker. This week's show is about our veterans, and it's about our heroes. This episode was originally released on November 13th, 2017. It was remixed and rescored for 2018, with an update on some of the people we talked to at the end of the show. Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studies in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

#42: The Cracks in the System (Where's Grandma, Part 2) Oct 30, 2018

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This week, we're following up on our last episode -- a story about a Philadelphia family who found out their grandmother had died months after it happened. We followed Cherri Gregg and David Wilson as they tried to find out what happened to David's grandmother Ruth Pasley, where she was buried, and why they weren't notified by her guardian after she passed away. Today on the podcast, Cherri Gregg is back to break down what's being done to try to fill the cracks in the Pennsylvania guardianship system, so what happened to the family of Ruth Pasley doesn't happen again. You can follow Cherri on Twitter at @CherriGregg, and listen to her community affairs podcast "Flashpoint" at kywnewsradio.com Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the podcast on Twitter: @ScrollDownPod, and you can follow Tom on Twitter at @teerick. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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