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While many schools across the country are facing budget cuts and teacher layoffs, students at highly reputable universities are signing up in drove...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WXDU
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:18
- Purchases: 2
More than eight years after it flooded and closed due to Hurricane Katrina, the Circle Food Store on the corner of Claiborne and St Bernard Avenues...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 3
Dr. Cary Cherniss is currently the director and co-chair (with Daniel Goleman) of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organiza...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 34:39
Personal Audio LLC owns a patent that it says covers the entire concept of podcasting. Podcasters are being asked to pay licensing fees for the rig...
Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 2
The mid-Market district of San Francisco is undergoing tremendous change. Construction cranes literally cast shadows over the businesses and charit...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 11:15
Worried about retirement? Worried about your future? Worried about your investments? What if there was a way to minimize your risk while offering a...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 45:04
Gas prices in California are always a big problem. And this year, the average price per gallon is set to hit four dollars – the highest average eve...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 05:10
Hailing a taxi in San Francisco can be nearly impossible if you’re not downtown. Calling ahead isn’t a guarantee either – often, the cab is late an...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
Mead Avenue is a single block in West Oakland in the triangle where San Pablo Avenue and Market Street meet. Like streets in a lot of low-income co...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 09:53
Spending too much time on Facebook or compulsively checking your smartphone might seem innocuous. But, as more people find it difficult to put the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 07:57
KALW's Angela Johnston goes fishing for answers about varying costs of seafood.
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 05:59
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 03:30
I interviewed John Caparella, President of the award winning Venetian and Palazzo Resorts and the Sands Expo and Convention center in Las Vegas. Jo...
- Added: May 03, 2012
- Length: 56:41
TOMS shoes promises that if you buy a pair of its canvas slip-ons, they'll give a pair to a child in need. The company's "Buy One, Give One" busine...
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 3
The Occupy Wall Street protests have started a national conversation about how capitalism should work – or if it can work at all. But for all the t...
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 06:57
Kentucky's signature distilled spirit--bourbon--is surging in popularity in the U.S. and abroad.
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 03:21
The outgoing FDIC commissioner gives her final speech at the National Press Club. She discusses the financial crisis that occured during her time a...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 53:57
Since the banking crisis of 2008, major lenders have become much more cautious about giving out loans. That’s left many people who have low or no c...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
May 11 marked the two-month anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The 9.0 quake set off a devastating tsunami, taking the lives of more t...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 10:08
They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 04:17
Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 17:01
In Detroit, the price of water is so high that for some, it’s out of reach. In response, citizens have come together to form the Detroit People’s ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2010
- Length: 09:03
The local food movement is beginning to threaten global agricultural brands like the iconic Idaho potato.
- Added: Sep 08, 2010
- Length: 06:12
Last week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled to Fort Collins to underscore what he says is a startling statistic. Over the past three deca...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2010
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
