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A lot of people die on Russian roads. But things are getting better thanks to better enforcement and a clever public service ad campaign.
- Added: Jun 23, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 07:42
They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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 birth of a child is life-changing. For the wallet, the lifestyle and the fact that there’s another human to care for.
But for many California ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 09:23
The refugee crisis in Turkey has reached unprecedented proportions, with more than half a million Syrian refugees streaming across the border. But ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 07:32
Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 09:58
Over 2 million Syrians have been displaced by that country's ongoing civil war. Neighboring countries are overwhelmed with refugees. So where else ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 29:00
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
When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Pam McKissick and her three guests uncover the dirty truth about horse slaughter and give voice to "the other side" on behalf of 80 percent of the ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:43
- Purchases: 2
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 26:32
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
Cancer, the word terrifies us. When we hear someone we love has cancer, we panic, feel angry and fearful. Having personally had skin cancer, and kn...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 44:44
Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, two things shaped the Oakland Police Department. The city had one of the highest crime rates in Cal...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 10:07
A string of incidents that have pushed the Oakland Police Department closer and closer to a federal takeover. But to understand how the OPD got to ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 08:12
When the Oakland Police Department put out a call for new recruits earlier this year, more than 2,000 people applied – mostly from outside of Oakla...
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 07:45
Many foster children live in several homes during a short span of time. All of the disruption has been correlated to poor academic performance.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:26
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
