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Maybe you can't change world affairs, but there’s lots you can do to make things better right here in the USA, no matter where you live.
Make a Di...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 02:45
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
This week on Minnesota Native News, a new state judge brings a wealth of Indian Country expertise and a new partnership gives Native students a pla...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, KVSC and more
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 8
Greyhound Canada closed down as a result of the pandemic. Megabus seeks to now take its place with a new route operating between Toronto and Ottaw...
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 12:05
The Minnesota state flag has a history that dates back more than 120 years. Throughout that time, the flag has received both praise and criticism f...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:28
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
From pedestrian plazas to pop-up-parklets…cities are looking to create spaces for people to gather, interact and create. But are some people being...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 29:00
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...
Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 2
Participants at the 2013 Conscious Capitalism conference discuss finding alternatives to the “maximizing shareholder value” model and how business ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 58:58
This month on War News Radio, “Forward Thinking”, we first discuss the future of Iraq in light of the ten year anniversary this past March. Then, w...
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 30:01
Downtown Washington, D.C. is a sea of bollards. Some people love them. Others can’t stand them. Regardless of how anyone feels about this perimeter...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2013
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
People born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom turned 65 last year, with more and more Americans entering what experts call “young old age.” One ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 4
For Lincoln native Alex Pickerel, the reasons for dropping out of high school went beyond merely not liking school. A series of bad turns in his li...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:21
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school dist...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:01
One city's struggle to regain its economic footing is also tied to significant problems in its schools. Jeffrey Brown reports from Reading, Pa., as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Dis...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:20
Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities thro...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 05:46
Washington's oldest monuments have nearly been forgotten. But a group of engineers, preservationists and history buffs is racing to change that.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 04:10
Without sight, the blind must rely on the soundscapes around them to navigate through a world of audio overload. To truly experience this world, Pr...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: May 12, 2012
- Length: 05:54
- Purchases: 3
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
