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Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...

Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 3
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We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.

Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age, and it can be as harmful to its victims and society as racism or sexism.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:43
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 05:27
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What is the precedent set by the arrests of journalist at the conventions?

  • Added: Sep 15, 2008
  • Length: 58:34
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Millions of Americans are being driven into the ranks of the nation's highly exploited part-time workers.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
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Music saved Francis's Life but now the very place that saved him may be destroyed.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:30
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feature documentary about the everday life of methamphetamin users in the USA and the Czech Republic (german language)

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 45:58
  • Purchases: 1
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In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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Sacramento is broke. What's going to be slashed and by how much?

  • Added: May 03, 2008
  • Length: 04:15
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If you're stuck in traffic, here's something you might be interested in knowing. A University of Southern California research group reports that ne...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Camping. Fresh air. Stunning vistas. Mountain streams flashing in the sunlight. And the great outdoors offers all kinds of natural conveniences. L...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
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That others are tortured makes me feel tortured: let's stop.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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These days, Americans are driving three times as many miles per capita as they did in 1980. Not only are longer commutes driving us crazy, they're...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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In April of 1990, biologist David Jude pulled a little bug-eyed fish from the Saint Claire River near Detroit. It was a Round Goby.

Bought by WYOU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park marked the return of a symbol of the American West. The recent shooting of one in O...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The fine folks of Omak, Washington, found themselves up a creek recently. Cleaning it up.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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The loss of air traffic controllers upset over their working conditions is a major reason airlines are consistently operating behind schedule and f...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2007
  • Length: 03:08
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During one three hour period last September, volunteers collected more than seven million pounds of shoreline trash around the world.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2007
  • Length: 01:30