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Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?
Bought by Vermont Public
- Added: Jan 08, 2024
- Length: 51:32
- Purchases: 1
A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...
Bought by Vermont Public
- Added: Jan 08, 2024
- Length: 51:31
- Purchases: 1
People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to so...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 26:10
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
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
After more than five years of civil war, Yemenis are bracing for what could be the worst famine the world has seen in decades. Hunger Ward, a new d...
Bought by Classic107.3 and WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 17:30
- Purchases: 2
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:44:41
Sue Taylor talks about saving a county, with music from the late Prince...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 02:52:20
Lisa De Bode got curious about how homeless women deal with menstruation, so she wrote a story on it. Then, things started to change.
Plus, Jake l...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 16:50
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
In downtown Los Angeles, activists have gone without food for two weeks. The women are campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage. Today L-A Mayor...
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 04:56
On this show we bring you an update on some of the stories we’ve covered this year. We’ll go to a protest to talk to advocates calling for an end t...
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Tune in to the small town news you need to know!
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 02:29
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)
Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
A recent poll shows forty percent of Americans still think Gulf seafood isn’t safe to eat. Commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre are fighting to w...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:34
One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 09:45
"Without Comment" was a mini-series produced during the Democratic Primaries and begins with the final battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Ob...
- Added: Feb 05, 2009
- Length: 01:02:45
