July 20, 2025 (Around the Block)

Around the Block is a community news program from the Block by Block team at WPPM-LP 106.5 FM. On this program we explore issues in the Philadelphia region with voices from the community – with reports from our team of community journalists and live in-studio interviews. 

This episode features a story about how to have effective conversations about vaccine safety, a conversation about the recent trash strike and recent ICE raids in Philadelphia, and an in-studio interview about state and city budget issues with Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval and Children First’s Philadelphia Mobilization and Policy Director Symbol Lai.

Alisha Miranda and David Heayn-Menendez hosted this episode, and Sheila Lorett Emerson was our board operator.

Brad Linder is Radio News Managing Editor for WPPM. Peta Liu is Radio Operations Manager. And Allison Durham is WPPM’s Radio Program Manager.


Posted

in

by

Tags:

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *