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¿QPM? S7 Ep. 5 Latinos & Health Care Rights
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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During the pandemic, Cleveland officials and local health care providers took too long to get translators for Spanish speaking COVID-19 patients. T...

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
¿QPM? S7 Ep. 3 Latinos & Education
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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We go back to Schuyler, Nebraska to learn whether educational equity is being achieved there. We found that while changes are happening, more is ne...

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 15:35
For COVID Patients, Recovery is a Hurdle of Its Own
From: Lucas Woods
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Many recovering COVID patients need rehabilitation before they go home. That's stretching inpatient rehab facilities to their limits.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 05:36
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Scar on the System
From: WNIN
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When Bloomington, Indiana, psychologist Albert Fink crashed his car and confessed to police that he had falsified a mental evaluation in a criminal...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
Episode 2: Bail: How to buy your freedom
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: The Los Angeles bail bonds office of Bob Swann, Credit: George Lavender
If you have the money, getting out of jail can be straightforward. If you don't, you're going to need some help.

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 3
Great Lakes may hold clues to beginning of life on Earth
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp
Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 6
Nicklesville Pushes Seattle Towards Acceptance of Tent Cities
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville, Credit: Sara Bernard
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Right
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick
Caption: Kevin Polly as he leaves his house for the rehab facility.
During the state's largest HIV outbreak, a man conquers his addiction.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 13:06
Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
Water Pressure 3: Water Isn't Just Running Out In California
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Swansea Water Manager Robert Marquis
Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.

Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 3
Water Pressure 1: New England Stole California's Snow
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
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Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.

Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 2
Part Five: Counting The Invisible
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Joe Fox is a resident of Safe Haven in Kennett, Mo., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:24
Part Two: Desperately Seeking Doctors
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Judith Haggard is one of two nurse practitioners at the Otto Bean Medical Center in Kennett, Mo. The clinic has no full-time doctor so Haggard works with a collaborating physician outside of the SEMO Health Network, which runs Otto Bean., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #42 – In The Name Of The Father
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 23:08
  • Purchases: 1
A Small Town Struggles Amid Crime, Decay
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Main Street, Henning, TN.
Yesterday we brought you a story about a small town 50 miles North of Memphis. A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 2
Roots Thinning In Rural America
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Series: Roots Thinning In Rural America
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2