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The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It’s a look at American history and culture from th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Every month, Alex Aldana stands in protest in front of the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. It’s a medium-security jail that holds men a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...
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- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
When most people are on their way to sleep, San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team, or SF HOT, is just beginning its graveyard shift.
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- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 2
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
Rosa Santos is leaning over a pile of forms and documents in the corner of the San Jose’s new DMV. I meet her along with her friend. They’re both a...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:44
A news report from Nell Abram in Tampa on Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar.
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 02:58
Earlier this fall San Francisco Muni buses displayed an ad that may have upset you. Or angered you. Or made you feel threatened. The Muni ad was pa...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 09:04
In 2002, Juan Carlos Cancino, was riding his bike around town and found an entire city block of dilapidated greenhouses, near a hill in the Portola...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:44
Oakland schools have a dropout rate that’s higher than the state average. So, the district made solving the problem a priority. Officials started t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 06:18
Then, Henry suffered from what is called a brain stem dissection. That stroke left him trapped, unable to lift a finger at first, or say a word. Bu...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 09:33
- Purchases: 2
At the Livermore Veteran’s Hospital, there are a few animals residents can see: wild turkeys that run around the grounds, rattlesnakes that hide ou...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:21
Dheeraj Singh is the first officer on a container ship that makes regular runs from China, to California, to Japan, and back again.
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 08:51
Every place has a history hidden that lives beneath what you can see on the surface. Just take the Mission District.
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 08:24
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
On the state level, California is working to address the issue of sexual assault on campus. In September, the state passed a new “Yes means Yes” la...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 2
Home prices are higher than ever before in the Bay Area. So it begs the question: are we in a housing bubble or a housing crisis?
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 06:18
For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
Ai WeiWei has been under house arrest in Beijing since 2011, but that has not stopped him from making work internationally. He just opened a massiv...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 2
When most of us talk on the phone we don’t think much about the cost—it’s pennies. If we don’t like a phone company or can’t afford a plan, it’s pr...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:39
