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Hiring Illegal Immigrants: the Tyson Story
From: Tanya Ott
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Tyson Foods is accused of surpressing wages by hiring illegal immigants. The lawsuit points out problems in the government's handling of workplace ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRFC


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
Polars Bearing Weight of Global Warming
From: The Environment Report
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Polar bears might be protected by Endangered Species Act because of global warming

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Flex-Fuel Economy Questioned
From: The Environment Report
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Flex-fuel vehicles might only be a stop-gap measure at best.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 04:40
States Pass Feds on Invasives Law
From: The Environment Report
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States are passing restrictions on invasive species where federal government fails.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 03:58
Corporate Campuses Go Green
From: The Environment Report
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Corporations are setting aside wildlife habitat to make investors happy.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 03:56
The Price of Global Warming
From: The Environment Report
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Will carbon offsets actually make a difference?

Bought by KRFC


  • Added: Feb 05, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Seed Bank Hopes to Save Trees in Peril
From: The Environment Report
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Scientists are freezing the seeds of a tree being destroyed by insects in hopes to save it for the future.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
Troopers Slide Behind the Wheel of a Re-Made 1960s Muscle
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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The Dodge Charger is Back as a Hi-Performance Police Car

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
Trash into Cash
From: Charles Lane
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story of Riverhead, New York, a community that's trying to turn its closed landfill into marketable resources

  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 04:54
Holiday Loan-Sharking
From: Charles Lane
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A new lending product offers quick cash for the holidays but comes with a hefty price tag

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
New Doubts About Tuskegee Airmen's Perfect Record
From: Tanya Ott
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America's first black fighter pilots claim they never lost a bomber, but a historian says newly uncovered records prove otherwise.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
Black Belt Poverty
From: Tanya Ott
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The Black Belt of the Deep South stretches from Virginia to Texas. It got its name from the dark, rich soil that made cotton production a highly p...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
Free Press Post 9-11
From: Tanya Ott
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After 9-11, the executive and administrative branches of the U.S. government instituted a series of policies to control access to information, inst...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
U.S. Army turns over Patrol Base Razor to Iraqi Army
From: Eric Pahon
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Package about turnover of American Patrol Base ?Razor? near Samarra, Iraq to Iraqi Army.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:14
Can Your Lunch Kill You?
From: Tanya Ott
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Mad Cow. Avian Flu. Mercury-contaminated fish. Every day there seems to be a new threat to the U-S food supply. But how real is the risk and are co...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
The "New" New South
From: Tanya Ott
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This story explores the trend of african americans moving from the northern US back down south.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX, KCUR, and KSJD


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 3
Selling the Statehouse
From: Tanya Ott
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From 1995 to 2004, companies and special interest groups spent nearly a billion dollars lobbying state legislators, and that number may actually be...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:36
Hair Cut Check Up
From: Tanya Ott
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African American women die of breast cancer at much higher rates than other women, but a unique program is turning African American hair dressers i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 3
World AIDS Day: Kenyan Children
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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The lives of Kenyan Children not improving despite progress in fighting AIDS in Kenya

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
The World's Longest Yard Sale
From: Tanya Ott
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A look at the economics of the World's Longest Yard Sale through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
If Money Grew on Trees: Venture Philanthropy
From: Tanya Ott
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Charitable giving is at an all-time high, but there's also increased scrutiny of how charities use donations. This story is particularly timely aro...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:53
It's the War, Stupid
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KWCW, Raven Radio, KGOU, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
9/11's Hidden Toll
From: WFUV
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Five years after the 9/11 attacks, the death toll among first responders is still climbing.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2006
  • Length: 05:27
The After-Effects of War
From: WFUV
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Soldiers in Iraq are suffering a higher rate of traumatic injuries than soldiers in previous wars.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:29
Returning to Nowhere
From: WFUV
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Some veterans are returning from Iraq homeless.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:43