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¿QPM? S7 Ep. 5 Latinos & Health Care Rights

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

During the pandemic, Cleveland officials and local health care providers took too long to get translators for Spanish speaking COVID-19 patients. T...

¿QPM? S7 Ep. 3 Latinos & Education

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

We go back to Schuyler, Nebraska to learn whether educational equity is being achieved there. We found that while changes are happening, more is ne...

For COVID Patients, Recovery is a Hurdle of Its Own

From: Lucas Woods

Many recovering COVID patients need rehabilitation before they go home. That's stretching inpatient rehab facilities to their limits.

Great Lakes may hold clues to beginning of life on Earth

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp

Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more

Inside a coal fired power plant

From: Reid Frazier

Caption: The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania., Credit: Reid Frazier

How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...

Bought by WABE

Water Pressure 3: Water Isn't Just Running Out In California

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Caption: Swansea Water Manager Robert Marquis

Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.

Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Water Pressure 1: New England Stole California's Snow

From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure

Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.

Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Part Five: Counting The Invisible

From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land

Caption: Joe Fox is a resident of Safe Haven in Kennett, Mo., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith

Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...

Part Two: Desperately Seeking Doctors

From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land

Caption: Judith Haggard is one of two nurse practitioners at the Otto Bean Medical Center in Kennett, Mo. The clinic has no full-time doctor so Haggard works with a collaborating physician outside of the SEMO Health Network, which runs Otto Bean., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith

The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE

The People vs. Syngenta: Jackson County, OR bans GMO crops

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.

In Amish Country, Fracking Here to Stay

From: Reid Frazier

$Caption: A Chesapeake Energy rig in Carroll County, Ohio, where fracking is taking place in Amish communities. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier$

In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...

Latitude News Podcast #7 — From War on Drugs to legal weed, where will the U.S. lead the world next?

From: Latitude News

A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else

Bought by KUT

Knight Life Ministry Quietly Strives To Keep Young Men Out of Gangs

From: Candice Ludlow
Series: Gangs in the City

Caption: Second Presbyterian - Where Knight Life meets., Credit: Candice Ludlow

Eva Miller was a high school teacher in an inner city high school when she noticed her students needed something more in their lives, so she create...

When 'No' is Not an Option: Gas Boom Brings Problems to Surface Owners

From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age

Caption: Marty Whiteman found himself in a struggle with Chesapeake Energy, which leased the gas under his farm. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier

What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...

Day Two: The Accidental Life of Cannon Point

From: Kenny Malone
Series: Neglected to Death

Caption: The Cannon Point neighborhood is like nowhere else., Credit: Google Maps

Cannon Point is a one-block stretch in Broward County, Florida, with the highest concentration of mental health assisted-living facilities in the s...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUT, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

A Crisis in Primary Care -- the Massachusetts Health Care Experiment

From: Karen Brown

Caption: Dr. Dan Levy, who left his private practice, Credit: Karen Brown

Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there’s an unintended consequ...

Bought by KRUA and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

President Kennedy's legacy in Berlin

From: Dan Tritle

President Kennedy remembered in Berlin 45 years after assassination.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City

Sinkhole May Swallow Amtrak Service To Memphis

From: WKNO

Memphis is the #1 destination for Amtrak's City of New Orleans. If a gaping sinkhole is not fixed, Amtrak may discontinue service.

How to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet

From: KQED
Series: QUEST

Is local food necessarily low-carbon?

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KVNF, KGOU, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Blue Highways Day Trip #1 - The REAL Health Care Crisis

From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways

There's lots of talk about the health coverage crisis - but the real crisis is that there aren't enough doctors to go around - a report from North ...