Middle Ground

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  • Location: Rockville, Maryland

The only public radio show that focuses on the middle of the country and ignores the coasts. Who says it's flyover country?

Series

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36 Pieces

A weekly show covering news, politics & culture from the states in between California & the eastern seaboard. No more "flyover country". Middle Ground is a weekly podcast and drop-in radio segment focusing on all the stories from what we call "flyover America".


Pieces

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A rain storm in Pittsburgh is more than water, it's also a good chance that sewage will leak into the city's rivers. Just like Detroit, Kansas City...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
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This week, we touch bases with Mike Draper in Des Moines to talk about state legislatures and they efforts to attract jobs. Also, PolicyMic reports...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
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Despite the success of small businesses in Goshen, Indiana, the city's poverty rate increased by 13.3 percent in the last few years. Reporter John...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
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Paul Eisenstein of TheDetroitBureau.com says the big three automakers, Chrysler, GM and Ford, have record-breaking profit sharing bonuses. But that...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
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Photographer Noah Stephens is on a mission to take pictures inside every grocery story in Detroit. He wants to prove that fruits and vegetables are...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
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Some Republican governors opened insurance exchanges or supported the ACA medical expansion and were threatened with primary challenges. What's com...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
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Food critics say the "Midwestern Food Movement" is one of the hot trends in cuisine for 2014. We spoke to 5 of the top-rated chefs from the Midwest...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Mr. Midwest joins us to talk about early polling for the Iowa caucus, pot in Colorado and stiff competition between states to lure a new Boeing pla...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The Navajo Nation could get more than a billion dollars to clean up uranium in Arizona and New Mexico; Utah's campaign to end homelessness by 2015 ...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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The Amish are among several religious groups that are exempt from the Affordable Care Act. Erika Beras talks to members of an Amish community in We...

Bought by WITF and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 2