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Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
What Research Says About a Post-Roe World
From: Tradeoffs
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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 17:37
The Personal and Political Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Michigan 2-Way
From: Tradeoffs
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A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Unstable ice leads to a deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: New York State Police / Snowmobile , Credit: New York State Police
More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 6
N.Y. snowmobilers add to toll in deadly winter
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A sign on Conesus Lake directs sportsmen to an access point., Credit: Veronica Volk
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 5
Where Richard Becomes Bianca: Inside Miss Vera's Crossdressing Academy
From: George Bodarky
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Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to be Girls bills itself as the world’s first crossdressing academy. We spend time with its founder,...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
Syrian Civil War: What are the impacts of displacement on Syrian lives?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The war in Syria, now in its fifth year, has created a refugee crisis. Almost 4 million Syrians have fled the country, and another 7.6 million have...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
In Kentucky, a Prairie Made by Coal
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
Food stamp cuts felt around the Bay Area
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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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
The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 09:38
Are You a Special Person?
From: The humble Farmer
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Some friends can make you feel special

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: :24
  • Purchases: 1
Human Rights in Argentina: Missing witness Julio Lopez
From: Marie Trigona
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Human Rights in Argentina: Witness still missing

  • Added: Sep 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:31