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Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...
Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
The Gift and Curse of Music – Haiti’s Fight for Copyright is the story of Serge Turnier, a music producer and composer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ju...
Bought by KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 35:55
- Purchases: 1
Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 32:44
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 30:58
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 55:48
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 59:57
Races for seats on state supreme courts have gotten more negative, more partisan, and much more expensive. And that leaves sitting justices in a t...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 17:57
- Purchases: 1
Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 18:42
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 20:18
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 22:00
Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 22:39
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 22:45
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 24:42
At disciplinary hearings in prison, inmates are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. In fact, they aren’t allowed to have one at all.
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 21:22
Entrepreneurs around the world struggling to achieve success now has a support service available......
- Added: Jun 18, 2015
- Length: 01:00
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
Life of the Law and Destination DIY team up to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy. How are cities grappling with these inc...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 20:51
- Purchases: 2
Pregnancy tests? Pigeon poo? What Chicago aldermen really do
One frustrated Chicagoan wondered what her alderman’s responsible for
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
One Chicago factory became a flashpoint back in 2008, when workers occupied the floor for days in protest. Now, those same employees are trying to...
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 07:48
