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  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: :27

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 02:37
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A prison that is not full is penalizing its stockholders.

  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: :39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Jay Gould was an American pioneer

  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
It is necessary to offer great perks to our friends who serve in Congress

  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: :54
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
the nation's unemployment rates dropped by a full percentage point last week

  • Added: Feb 07, 2010
  • Length: :19
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The good thing about the recent Supreme Court decision is that now corporate dollars will buy legislators from both parties. Because everyone wil...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2010
  • Length: :33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Ask me no questions

  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A segment of the population has been conditioned to believe that crime can be eliminated by more police, bigger jails and stiffer sentences

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yelp's iPhone App in Action, Credit: Yelp.com
Eric Singley, Yelp’s Product Manager who has been working on Yelp’s iPhone app, walks us through the augmented reality (AR) experience they’re brin...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 10:37
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you didn’t know you could make your monthly mortgage payment electronically on line until just now, you may consider this to be a public service...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:01
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Tales of a taxi driver in the after hours of the night

  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 15:05
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A newshole ready first-person piece about "La Tanda", a tradition of many immigrant communities of pooling their money, and sharing the benefits.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
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The entire housekeeping staff at Hyatt hotels in the Boston area was fired recently. Temporary workers making half their hourly wage replaced them...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 05:07
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Congress is considering a bill that would charge tourists $10 to enter our country. Good idea. Maine could also set up a toll booth and charge ever...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2009
  • Length: :50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People who are properly motivated can move mountains.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:58
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Have you noticed that everyone wants to help you "Come in and save" --- at least that’s what they tell you.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2009
  • Length: :55
Caption: Farmers ready to Bid, Credit: Beatrice Murch
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Most of the men who run ads for hit man services are really undercover policemen. The woman we’re talking about here must have been incredibly stup...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 01:24
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Eggs are now laser-etched with an expiration date and a code. The process could even be refined to the point where you could tell which hen at the ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2009
  • Length: :44
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it comes to formulating an opinion on global warming, would you be more inclined to believe an MIT professor who has studied climate change or...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Put him out on the speaking circuit for the next year and use his fee to make a token payment to the people he cheated

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:14
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The company asked me to sign a release so they could bill my insurance company $220 for something one can buy on line for $19.95

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Have you noticed that all of a sudden there is a lot of opposition to the bailouts?

  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: :16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In 1945 any American who had any kind of job could buy a home.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:19