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With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
A commentary about the recent pay scandals and court decisions
involving student athletes. Plus, a plan to resolve the controversy.
Recently, Peo...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 04:16
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:16
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the evolution of the petition concept and outline some of the most successful i...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 05:12
In Part 3 of a multi-part series on the final report released by the Global Ocean Commission, From Decline to Recovery, A Rescue Package for the Gl...
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 05:39
The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $38 billion in claims since 1978. It was meant to be a self-supporting system, but currentl...
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 05:14
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than $38 billion in claims since 1978. It was meant to be a self-supporting system, but currentl...
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 05:14
Amethi is the pocket borough of India’s most powerful family, the Gandhi's. This time it’s different.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Expert canoe paddlers know that a predictable sign that swimming is imminent when the canoe starts to tip in rough water is the grabbing of the can...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:03
Voting in India is the largest organized event in the world! Sandip Roy goes to the polls.
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The Next Step in data management, devised by the Curmudgeon in cooperation with the NSA.
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 02:59
In light of a recent all-night vigil on the House floor (see #Up4Climate), World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill was inspired to write this week’s epi...
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
It's been forty-one years since the landmark Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. But foes have never stopped in their quest to ove...
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 02:30
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...
- Added: Jan 10, 2014
- Length: 01:04
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:54
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
To understand what civility is these days in times of tweets, smart phones, blogs and Facebook, we first have to look at "uncivil" and how "uncivil...
- Added: Aug 25, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Jul 26, 2013
- Length: 02:41
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...
- Added: Jun 15, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on why college debt is the highest in history, and it is especially hard on women.
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 02:30
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's 40 year old study of psychiatric patients "plagerised" psychiatric diagnosis to see if they would be detected as fra...
- Added: Feb 03, 2013
- Length: 06:18
