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For over a decade, Oakland has attempted to abate the illegal dumping of mattresses, electronics, furniture, and other large items onto city street...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:20
Ai WeiWei has been under house arrest in Beijing since 2011, but that has not stopped him from making work internationally. He just opened a massiv...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 2
When most of us talk on the phone we don’t think much about the cost—it’s pennies. If we don’t like a phone company or can’t afford a plan, it’s pr...
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 07:39
For the past eight years, one weekend in late summer brings first responders from across the country and around the world -- firemen, medics, SWAT ...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, getting healthy fare often isn’t an option. Without a full service grocery store in the neighborhood, residents rely...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Jeremy Mykaels is in his early 60s, and he has AIDS. As a young gay man, he moved to the Castro, where he has lived for almost 40 years. He's been ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 07:41
- Purchases: 1
People 50 years or older now make up the majority of HIV and AIDS cases in San Francisco. Since HIV emerged in the 1980's, treatments have improved...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco has some of the country’s highest reports of human trafficking. It’s one of the top 10 cities in the U.S where trafficking is the worst.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:55
- Purchases: 2
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 07:24
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...
Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
Marla Knight is packing up her home of 48 years. She’s been evicted from her North Beach apartment because the owners are converting it to tenancie...
Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 2
On the west side of the city of Albany, there’s a peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay. It’s beautiful there, right on the water, with hiking t...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 08:25
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
The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 07:35
Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 09:58
If you walk upstairs from the kitchen at Mother Brown’s drop-in center in the evening, you’ll find dozens of people sleeping in chairs. During the ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 06:46
Oakland Police Captain Ricardo Orozco says he’s living his dream of being a cop.
“Ever since I was a small boy, the show that I always liked to wa...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 16:20
“Our Hallowed Ground - The Love Balm Project”is a series of performances based on testimonies of Bay Area mothers and grandmothers who have lost ch...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:07
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
Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
In every police department, there’s a special division just for policing the cops. Its responsible for investigating all officer misconduct, includ...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 10:45
