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Here in the Bay Area, rents are rising, and housing inventory is shrinking. It’s forcing many here to decide -- either you have to leave the area c...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 1
Buena Vista is a diverse community, made up of seniors, families, people with disabilities. The majority of residents are low income, and Latino. P...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 08:08
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...
Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 2
Three hours north of San Francisco, just east of the ocean, rise the steep, green hills of Cazadero. It’s an idyllic setting: open space with farms...
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 07:57
Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second instal...
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 24:25
In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
Hundreds of New England towns honor their oldest resident with a cane when the previous town elder dies. Some recipients celebrate; others feel cur...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:18
- Purchases: 1
In one of America's most expensive cities, there's a fringe political party whose name sums up their concerns: The Rent is Too Damn High. That city...
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- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
There are at least 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco each night, and only enough shelter space to house a small fraction of them. This is one ...
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- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 1
Alyssa Arian has worked in San Francisco restaurants for a decade and, like most servers, she got into it for the tips.
“Some nights you leave wit...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 09:06
When President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014, he said he hoped it would help boys and young men of color find success. ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 06:59
Derrick Holloway grew up in a Christian family, but chose to sell drugs and participate in a lifestyle that resulted in him committing a murder. Af...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 06:43
Chris Schumacher may be serving a life sentence, but when he runs, he feels a sense of freedom. Once an addict, he now finds that exercise can curb...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 04:30
If you have walked the streets of the Bay Area recently -- you might have seen posters featuring the names and faces of Oscar Grant, Renisha McBrid...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
n the dining room of her San Francisco home, Maria Eitz shows off her priestly attire -- a beautiful red, embroidered stole...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 10:58
- Purchases: 1
How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 07:06
One in four homeless people are veterans. There are approximately 800 homeless veterans on San Francisco’s streets.Experts in the field believe the...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 09:07
Getting around sprawling Santa Clara County is a trick for anyone, but for those without housing, getting to and from services and opportunities is...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
Imagine eating at your favorite restaurant and being told that the salad on your plate was harvested from the cracks in the sidewalk in West Oaklan...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, WABE, and KUOW
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
California leads the nation in its population of senior citizens. The ratio of working-age adults to those over 65 is projected to plunge in the ne...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 08:45
Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 08:07
At a full-service restaurant you know the drill. You eat your food, you get your bill, and then you calculate the tip. But not at Sous Beurre Kitch...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:06
We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2015
- Length: 13:13
Oakland schools have a dropout rate that’s higher than the state average. So, the district made solving the problem a priority. Officials started t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 06:18
