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Part 2: Unholy Alliance
From: GBH News
Series: The Big Dig
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In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
Part 1: We Were Wrong
From: GBH News
Series: The Big Dig
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There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
From: Tradeoffs
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2023
  • Length: 22:59
Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:50
Will Netanyahu’s Long War Wash Away Saudi Arabia 2030?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How the War in Gaza reality-checked the region

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
International Relations Expert Seth Kaplan: Fragile Neighborhoods Repairing American Society One Zip Code at a Time
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the importance of strong neighborhood and community relationships to the health of nations… and discuss how many neighb...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Punishing the Amalekites
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum. As Israel retaliates, with customary super-violence, reducing little Gaza to rubble, in the occupied West Bank...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
The Vineyard Current - October 29th, 2023
From: WMVY
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Vineyard news of the week with Vineyard Gazette editor Bill Eville, Interview Segments with Alley McConnell from the Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Gr...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:20
October 13, 2023: Surveillance and Social Media
From: WFHB
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On today’s Kite Line, we are sharing more research conducted collectively by Micol Seigel’s Inside-Out class.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
The Fight for Safe Consumption Sites: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 5
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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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...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rethinking Riches: The Global Push for Wealth Equality
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Why we need a global shift in the wealth paradigm

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Josh Paul Reveals The Truth Behind US Arms Supply to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Poem to the President of the NRA
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:09
The Systemic Challenges of Addressing Homelessness, with Tony Sparks
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
Sonali Kolhatkar: “Rising Up” for Social Justice, With YES! Magazine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the Israel/Hamas conflict continues, what is media’s role?  Across the globe, reporting shapes political and cultural landscapes — and Sonali Ko...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Cell Phones and Brain Cancer with Ellen Marks
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong
From: Tradeoffs
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
The War on Drugs Revisited: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 4
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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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
  • Purchases: 1
Criminalizing Drug Use: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 3
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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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
  • Purchases: 1
How Drug Addiction and Homelessness Connect: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 2
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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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
The Origins of Rampant Opioid Addiction: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis Part 1
From: KSFP
Series: Civic Presents: San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis
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San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
Ready to Make a Difference? It's easy -- listen up
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Maybe you can't change world affairs, but there’s lots you can do to make things better right here in the USA, no matter where you live. Make a Di...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:45
“OK Boomers” Get Back to Work
From: Mateo Schimpf
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While many Baby Boomers have already left the workforce behind, almost half are considering coming out of retirement in search of a new purpose in ...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
After a series of suicides, the USS George Washington returns to sea with more mental healthcare
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The USS George Washington is returning to sea after a six-year maintenance cycle when it remained in the shipyard in Norfolk, Va., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The deaths among Washington crewmembers occurred during a six-year period when the carrier remained in the shipyard for maintenance.

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 7

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