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Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 28:12
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What's it like when a pandemic crushes your dream of playing a Division One sport?
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 13:18
If you're trying to cover the pandemic in seven Midwestern states, where do you start? WNIN partnered with data scientists from the University of E...
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 14:47
With lifeguards, warning signs, 911 phones and education efforts, beaches across the Great Lakes are preparing for emergencies. But how effective a...
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- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 8
Berrien County, Mich., is a tourist destination because of its beautiful beaches and 50 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. But the community also ha...
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- Added: Aug 12, 2016
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 7
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
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- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Check out the show with Professors Bob Duke and Art Markman, and then have a nap; refresh and consolidate what you’ve learned. Sleep is a lot more...
- Added: Sep 13, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Series host Martha Burk interviews Sister Simone Campbell, captain of the "Nuns on the Bus" tour protesting the Romney/Ryan budget, and Executive D...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 28:37
A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Frank Fulbrook discusses his paper "Urban De-vitalization: How Drug Prohibition is Destroying City Neighborhoods" the only study of how empty build...
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- Added: May 27, 2009
- Length: 29:28
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...“America has been asleep” - President Obama wants to double renewable energy production by 2012. But the United States lacks a manufacturing bas...
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 08:28
- Added: Jun 24, 2008
- Length: 04:51
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- Added: Jun 18, 2008
- Length: 03:30
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3 generations discussing how journalism has developed
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 59:59
Media Commentary on Senator Larry Craig
- Added: Sep 06, 2007
- Length: 02:32
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Part 5 of the duPont-Columbia award winning series on poverty amidst prosperity.
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 05:23
From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Part 4 of the duPont-Columbia award winning series on poverty amidst prosperity.
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 05:11
Cities work to clean up pollution from pesticides in their water supplies.
- Added: Aug 09, 2006
- Length: 04:36
Nitrogen pollution from farm fields pollutes public water supplies
- Added: Aug 09, 2006
- Length: 04:41
The problems in healthcare have gone beyond just tweaking the current system to a point where we really have to look at infrastructure issues, and ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2006
- Length: 07:44
