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The growth of charter schools has led to declining enrollment at traditional public schools across California -- and in some cases to school closur...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 09, 2018
- Length: 09:36
- Purchases: 1
Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:52
In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:38
- Purchases: 2
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
Mosques here are generally identified by sect, you have, say, the Sunni Mosque, the Shia Mosque, the Sufi Mosque. But the Islamic Cultural Center o...
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 07:52
Cris Miranda believes in the promise of virtual reality. After decades of hype, 2015 may be the year that it breaks into homes around the country.
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 11:41
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
When someone we love dies, how can a headstone express who they were? The answer begins with diamonds.
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 07:32
San Francisco’s Mission District. It’s a neighborhood where Mark Zuckerberg now owns a home, and a place where an affluent, whiter population is di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 06:23
About 25 members of the dance company Mind Over Matter, mostly women, are finishing their warm up. Dressed in comfy street clothes, they stretch wh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 03:29
So you want to open a bookstore? Excellent news. Here's your guide to survival.
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 06:07
Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 11:20
- Purchases: 1
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
Before the great speech maker Patrick Henry died, he credited a Presbyterian minister named Samuel Davies with “teaching me what an orator should b...
Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
San Franciscans love to garden, but a backyard is hard to come by if you live in an apartment. And the 36 city-operated community gardens have wait...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 04:46
The legendary Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hokulea, is sailing around the world using the ancient art of wayfinding, navigating without instruments. Th...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 04:19
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
John Grisham is one of the best known authors in America, with his books selling over 275 million copies. Allison Quantz tells the story of an aspi...
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 2
More than eight years after it flooded and closed due to Hurricane Katrina, the Circle Food Store on the corner of Claiborne and St Bernard Avenues...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 3
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Aristotle said there are three kinds of friendships—those of utility, pleasure, and virtue. But what about Facebook friendships? One scholar is stu...
- Added: Sep 30, 2013
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
The Slow Food movement has changed how we eat in the last quarter century. The Italian organization encourages us to dine on flavorful and health...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 04:04
