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The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
The Searsville Dam is causing big trouble on the peninsula. The 122-year-old, 65-foot-tall dam is closed to the public, hidden away on 1,200 acres ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:41
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 2
In 2012, Barnali Ghosh began the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour with her husband, Anirvan Chatterjee.
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 08:08
Rosa Santos is leaning over a pile of forms and documents in the corner of the San Jose’s new DMV. I meet her along with her friend. They’re both a...
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 06:44
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 05:21
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...
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- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 04:34
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A girl and her mother talk about being bullied by internet, a school security officer talks about posing as a 14 year old online.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 04:21
Bullying is a complex problem with many different causes. It’s defined as aggression that is habitual and that involves a power imbalance. Today th...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 04:08
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2014
- Length: 06:14
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Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
There are many ways to handle neighborhood flooding, beyond pumping stations and sewers. Some cities have realized that skate parks, of all places,...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 04:39
Students from the Radio Department of Columbia College Chicago dig deep into the growing tragedy of heroin abuse among young adults. In this half-h...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 28:58
They’re called bunker up north, and Pogies here in the South, and are sometimes referred to as “The Most Important Fish In the Sea”. These are the ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Episcopal Church of Louisiana spent the past year making plans for a new ministry, aiming to address its history of racism, as well as other fo...
- Added: Feb 04, 2014
- Length: 05:23
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
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
Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 03:58
