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After COVID-19 - a Palmdale couple grapple with completely different receptions upon returning to work.
- Added: Feb 05, 2021
- Length: 06:44
Youth Conservation Corps Rover Cody Gardner talks about his background in Long Island and urban planning and how it relates to his work in the wild...
- Added: Jul 15, 2019
- Length: 07:47
In recent years it has become more and more common for arrangements to buy and sell sex to be made online and behind closed doors. A lot of the tim...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 1
Since 1989, San Francisco has been a sanctuary city -- a place that offers undocumented migrants a chance to start a new life, without the threat o...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 11:40
California’s Family Leave Act is a step ahead of the U.S. as a whole, in giving all parents the right to some time off, but it’s complicated. What ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 11:05
- Purchases: 1
For teens in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, Facebook’s presence goes beyond their digital lives. The teenagers in these towns are in the unique pos...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 07:42
East Palo Alto is a small, new city -- it was only incorporated in 1983. Its residents are primarily low-income, and the population is mostly Afric...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 08:35
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Billboards, business logos, street signs, window lettering; If you drive down any Main Street you’re surrounded by signs. But how did they get ther...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 04:31
British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
San Franciscans love to garden, but a backyard is hard to come by if you live in an apartment. And the 36 city-operated community gardens have wait...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 02:59
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The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
Pazhae Horace has a summer job with California Youth Energy Services, or CYES. It’s a program that hires youth aged 15-22 to do free “green house c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:52
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 10:18
- Purchases: 1
Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 06:53
- Purchases: 1
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 2
Oakland is known for its food trucks, which serve everything from tacos and tamales to West African cuisine. But few know that this latest culinar...
Bought by NPR Illinois and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 2
California’s budget crisis has meant huge cuts in cities across the Bay Area. Pinole, a city of 18,000 in Contra Costa County, is no exception. Sin...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 1
The Alameda County Community Food Bank is a hub of distribution. Using a small army of volunteers, the food bank provides for over 300,000 meals ea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 05:41
In California, many of the farm workers who harvest the state’s crops are undocumented. Their lack of legal status often means they don’t have heal...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:29
- Purchases: 1
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2009
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 2
State Truck Driver Winners Listen To Public Radio
- Added: May 19, 2009
- Length: 03:46
Thousands of Bolivians migrated to Argentina in search of a liveable wage, only to find themselves sewing designer jeans in sweat shops under slave...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: May 21, 2008
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 1
