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Every day, more than two dozen people pass through a hackerspace in San Francisco’s Mission district called Noisebridge. At its broadest, “hackersp...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 08:11
- Purchases: 1
When we think of policing, we don’t always think about psychology. One is academic; the other, relentlessly real-world. But many police departments...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 09:51
The cost of living in the Bay Area has risen sharply, especially in the past few years, but the federal benefits that many seniors rely on are ofte...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 07:53
Nearly every city in the US has a Tenderloin. Here in San Francisco, it’s a neighborhood home to a dozen social service agencies, low-rent resident...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:52
The Citizens’ Police Review Board, or CPRB, was established in 1979 after two OPD officers killed Melvin Black, a 14-year-old African-American boy....
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 12:32
The last decade has seen more than a hundred officer-involved shootings – 39 of them fatal. When one of those shootings happens, OPD’s Internal Aff...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 08:12
California was the first state to adopt heat illness regulations for outdoor workers, but there are still violations, and there are still fatalities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 3
In an age of big data, even police departments are getting in on the action. In Los Angeles, the LAPD are using software for what they call “predic...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WTIP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KQED
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 5
From: Free Speech Radio News
In Canada, people are rallying to support an Indigenous community in northern British Columbia that is claiming its sovereignty over the land and m...
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 05:39
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
With one of the highest crime rates in the country, Richmond, California, is a regular on the evening news.
Zoom out to just California and that c...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
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
After decades of neglect, prison rehabilitation programs are seeing a resurgence, despite some hiccups. For California, this emphasis on rehabilita...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 2
From Santa Monica to Seattle, several cities on the West Coast have enacted sit/lie laws. San Francisco began enforcing its Sit/Lie Ordinance in Ma...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 1
Alternative economic strategies are growing--go Kickstart your Cash Mob into the TimeBank.
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 28:35
Complicated commercial development can have as many layers of financing as Turkish pastry has layers of phyllo.
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 28:31
Texas has been fracking for years...so what does Ohio's gas exploration future look like?
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 28:30
How do YOU talk about race? And why can it be so touchy?
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:32
Hydraulic fracturing is a complex issue. Is it more like Satan's ploy to ruin the environment or God's answer to Northeast Ohio's structural unempl...
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:31
When life gives you sludge, old medical equipment and poop...make nature preserves, life saving supplies and energy.
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:41
The emergency room at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital sees its fair share of gun shot victims, both teenagers and adults. Y-Press visited Wishard to...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 04:18
Members of the Parkside community and Vernon triangle met on Feb. 29 to discuss the future of the former Fairfield public library. The building, de...
- Added: Mar 01, 2012
- Length: 04:09
For the past twenty years, Shepherd's Clinic in Baltimore has provided comprehensive health care to the uninsured -- without any government funding...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
