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For Jamaisse Payne, the grocery store is a math problem. She’s got a baby boy due in a few weeks, so she says she’s shopping and eating for two. Sh...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 06:56
Last month, a group of students from the 100% College Prep Club in the Bayview district marched into the San Francisco Unified School District boar...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 08:54
Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 03:58
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Laine Kaplan Levenson reports on continued efforts to use the story of the Angola 3 to combat long-term solitary confinement in prisons.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:39
You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
When people get into trouble with the law, they normally don’t have a chance to have a conversation with their victims. To explain what happened. H...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
You might have heard about CleanPowerSF. It’s a program that would allow San Franciscans to choose where their electricity comes from. This model o...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 10:39
If you walked along the San Francisco waterfront recently, you may have noticed giant catamarans -- specialized, 72-foot long sailboats that whizz ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 05:44
In 2010, we brought you a whole show focused on ADHD and its effects. We spoke with four San Francisco teenagers living with ADHD about how they ma...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 11:24
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...
Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 5
Personal Audio LLC owns a patent that it says covers the entire concept of podcasting. Podcasters are being asked to pay licensing fees for the rig...
Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 2
To secure the border, the Senate committee says we need more drones. But it has been widely reported that drones on the border are ineffective.
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 04:12
This award-winning story profiles one student athlete who suffered a sports-related concussion, and it follows the physical, emotional, & mental tr...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 19:21
The mid-Market district of San Francisco is undergoing tremendous change. Construction cranes literally cast shadows over the businesses and charit...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 11:15
Gas prices in California are always a big problem. And this year, the average price per gallon is set to hit four dollars – the highest average eve...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 05:10
Mead Avenue is a single block in West Oakland in the triangle where San Pablo Avenue and Market Street meet. Like streets in a lot of low-income co...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 09:53
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
Picture a slimy seaweed thicket – each plant a dark gold-brown, with a strong spine – wrapping around ropes, chains, and other sea life. This is Un...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
One of the areas hit hardest by state budget cuts is California’s judicial branch. Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature cut $350 million from t...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:56
For the past 39 years, the California’s 15th Congressional District has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by 81-year-old Pete S...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 04:42
In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Richmond voters will decide on November 6 whether to authorize an extra cent tax on sugary beverages like soda. KALW's Isaac Silk talked with local...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 04:21
While news stories about youth and guns usually involve death or injury, some Hoosiers believe that when young people learn to use firearms safely...
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 03:09
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
