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What does equine capital in a Grandpa farm have to do with Turing Pharmaceuticals and its bid to raise the price of a life-saving drug by 50 times?...
- Added: Jul 24, 2016
- Length: 08:57
Author, producer and teacher Bryan Ward loves the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, but his relationship with the writing utensil has soured since he disc...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:42
Writer Catherine Breese shares her experience with a virtual online job interview for a job she frankly does not want. She describes the painful in...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2014
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on low wage employment -- and the worst offender is a big surprise.
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
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When the votes are counted, the election night parties are over and the mud-slinging stops, voters (according to...
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 04:59
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:39
Host Phalana Tiller talks with authors Rohit Bhargava and Peter Post about the role that manners and likeability play in the workplace.
And Rick W...
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 59:00
A true story told live in London. As a trader, Shaun had it all - money, cars, women - until he got into dealing drugs as well as shares. This is h...
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 09:50
- Added: Dec 12, 2010
- Length: 01:15
Their employees have different retirement programs
Bought by KMXT, WRVO Public Media, and KUT
- Added: Nov 28, 2010
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
You can learn things that will make you uncomfortable
- Added: Nov 25, 2010
- Length: 02:53
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 01:48
Chinese philosophy passed on to you by a Swede
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :36
- Purchases: 1
We are told that there is status in skin color
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 01:14
- Added: Jul 14, 2010
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 1
If you don't pollute, you can sell your clean-air credit to those who do.
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 02:08
What do you do when your computer quits?
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 03:39
- Added: Jun 27, 2010
- Length: 02:28
When he felt the heart attack coming on he shot out the windows of the house next door.
- Added: Jun 26, 2010
- Length: 01:35
- Added: Jun 23, 2010
- Length: :40
Corporate America can make more money when pot is illegal
- Added: Jun 19, 2010
- Length: 03:15