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Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Taking What Is Not Yours To Take; Giving What's Not Yours To Give
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
What leads people to take what is not theirs to take? Or give what is not theirs to give or for that matter, withhold from others? These are questi...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 04:59
The Pentagon has begun implementing a law to reduce suicides, 18 months after Congress passed it
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Gilbert R. Cisneros Jr. signs a policy to implement the Brandon Act on May 5. Attending the signing were Patrick and Teri Caserta, the parents of Brandon Caserta, a Navy sailor who died by suicide, Credit: Jack Sanders / U.S. Air Force
The Pentagon has put in place "The Brandon Act" - named after a Navy sailor who died by suicide in 2018. It allows service members to go outside th...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KUT, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
A Pentagon-appointed committee says easy access to guns on military bases leads to more suicides
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Anthony Muhlstadt participates in exercises aboard the USS Bataan March 7, 2020. Muhlstadt was a 23-year-old Marine Corps sergeant when he died by suicide November 19, 2021, at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms in California., Credit: Kaitlin Rowell / U.S. Navy
The independent committee is calling on the Defense Department to make personal firearms harder to buy and access on base.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KMXT, KPBS and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 7
'You let him die': A mother blames the Navy for her son's death after SEAL 'Hell Week' training
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Navy SEAL candidates participate in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in a 2018 photo. For nearly a week, candidates are submerged in the Pacific Ocean - forced to continually swim or march with boats on their backs., Credit: Abe McNatt / U.S. Navy
An autopsy showed Kyle Mullen received inadequate medical care for pneumonia after Navy SEAL "Hell Week" endurance training in February.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KRPS, and KUT


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 4
Shaming and Humiliating By Choice: Roe v. Wade and Denying Consequence
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: At the 1996 Dem National Convention, at the beginning of the Platform debate, women protested for the right to choose..., Credit: New York Times, August 28, 1996
As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:13
'He just wanted to serve his country': A widow mourns one of the last troops to die in the Afghanistan war
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Alena Knauss stands in the laundry room of her North Carolina home, which she's been renovating and re-tiling. She placed the initials "R" and "A" in the tile for herself and her husband Ryan, who was killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan August 26. , Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
More than 2,400 U.S. service members were killed in the Afghanistan war. The Pentagon said Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss - who died from injuries ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and KCUR


  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 4
Doing Good for Evil: An American Sonnet
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ...your business in life, to do good and to do good for evil..., Credit: Susan Cook
My father often said his mother always told him, "Do good for evil." It's drawn from the Bible "This is your calling, your business in life- to do...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2021
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
Death of a Paddler
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Their "First Dance" was to the Country-Western song "Count on Me".
Those who sign on for white water rafting trips, fishing and hunting day trips are hoping to find a few hours or so of Great Abandon, an experience...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
Why Women Don't Tell, Part 2: July 20, 1969 for Some Women Means Remembering Violence
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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The 54th anniversary of the Moon Landing reminds some of us that violence toward women and girls is still minimized.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2019
  • Length: 06:29
After generations of grief and frustration, families of Korean War MIAs are more optimistic
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: U.S. Defense Department forensic anthropologists in Wonsan, North Korea examine the contents of boxes containing the possible remains of U.S. MIAs July 27, 2018., Credit: David Marshall / U.S. Army
Families hope advances in DNA technology and thawing U.S./North Korean relations will help the government recover and identify long-missing remains...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and WUSF


  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 4
Thursday, June 21, 2018 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
Caption: A red flag shows a marijuana leaf replacing the Canadian maple leaf., Credit: Cannabis Culture/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Thursday, June 21, 2018.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 09:15
The Indifference Diaries, Part 3. Using Good To Create Evil, Seizing the Parent/Child Bond to Punish
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Being of the wrong lineage, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, now carries devastating consequences for the children of parents caught crossing...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 08:57
How to Be Invisible, Part 2: Preventing Maltreatment By Listening to Someone Else
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Robert Indiana grew up in a home where the word love was never said., Credit: Susan Cook photo of AP photo
Our society has systematically discredited women's ability to know themselves, their bodies and their ability to parent. Child maltreatment, Harvey...

  • Added: May 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:50
How To Be Invisible: Love Alone Does Not Prevent Child Maltreatment
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: In Robert Indiana's childhood home, the word "love" was never spoken. , Credit: Photo of AP/ Susan Cook
We know in 2018 that invisibility of the child places the child at very high risk for maltreatment. The more invisible the child, the more likely ...

  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 07:50
Women in STEM battle gender bias
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / University at Buffalo engineering professor Liesl Folks leads the NAVIGATE Project at UB, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / University at Buffalo engineering professor Liesl Folks leads the NAVIGATE Project at UB
The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math – have traditionally been dominated by men. And that can make it tough for women to bre...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WSKG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
Meeting An American Conscience in the Clothing Store: Made in Vietnam
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: After watching "The Vietnam War" we all know more about conscience...
Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 05:56
Monday, August 28, 2017 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
Caption: The front page of the MassRoots website., Credit: MassRoots.com
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Monday, August 28, 2017.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 09:59
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
Caption: A vintage Las Vegas promotional stick showing a line drawing of the old strip done in neon bright pen strokes., Credit: jericl cat/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Wednesday, July 5, 2017.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 09:11
Businesses along Lake Ontario hurt by flooding
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Fran Beth took over the bar for her mother-in-law, the original Marge., Credit: Veronica Volk
Spring flooding along Lake Ontario is damaging many homes along the shoreline. It’s also hurting people who have businesses there. As Veronica Vol...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 7
New York town fights to keep Lake Ontario at bay
From: Great Lakes Today
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The Great Lakes are so big that they can act just like an ocean -- with punishing waves that erode the shore. And with Lake Ontario 20 inches highe...

Bought by WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, and WBFO


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5
N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
Monday, March 6, 2017 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
Caption: A DJ spins a record at a High Times table at a Cannabis Cup., Credit: Cannabis Culture/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Monday, March 6, 2017.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 10:29
Never Take Money For What You Love Deeply: Money Hustlin' in D.C.
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Madame Rosa, the magistrate of care, wouldn't take money for deep love., Credit: Susan Cook
Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:05
On Lake Erie island, 'school bus' is a plane
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Cecilia Glauser (l) Max Schneider (r) on their plane ride to school, Credit: Margaret Thompson/ideastream
Life for students on Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island is different - starting with the morning commute to school.

Bought by WVBI-LP, WMUK, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 6

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