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Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames turned the Minneapolis Police Department into the most powerful crime ring the city had ever seen.
- Added: Mar 30, 2023
- Length: 35:20
Two stories about local government.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 52:00
- Purchases: 2
Educator Rachel and engineer Pius introduce Season 4 and brainstorm about what interests us in K-12 engineering education today. We talk about scho...
- Added: Feb 19, 2019
- Length: 31:25
Ruminations from the rust-belt revival in Canada's Steel Town--Hamilton, Ontario--on whether artists are "the footsoldiers of gentrification."
- Added: Mar 16, 2017
- Length: 46:04
Election-related scams are way, way up this year - - here's how to stay safe, at least until you vote. And there's some good news about a mega-frau...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 04:03
Episode 130:
Given all the horrible experiences people have had over the telephone with massive cable companies, it isn't clear that one can design...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 15:02
Public infrastructure – parks, libraries, roads, and sidewalks – surrounds us. But have you ever wondered how any of it actually came into being? A...
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 07:44
Writer Marc Estrin shares his pearls of wisdom from school. There were only three.
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 04:22
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
Republicans now control both houses for the first time since 2006. Paul Kane of the Washington Post joins us to talk about the attempted rebellion...
Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, KUER, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 08, 2015
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 5
In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 40:07
Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, a few miles from Muir Woods, lies Muir Beach. The beautiful and peaceful waterfront is a favorite...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 06:13
In CRN #8 we hear back to school thoughts from Betty Aldworth, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Jane West owns and operates...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Robert Platshorn once spent thirty years in prison for smuggling marijuana, and in a sign of changing times, over the past weekend, Platshorn organ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 17:00
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 08:07
I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 02:17
I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:29
Another vote -- this time on raising the debt ceiling -- and other fissure exposed inside the GOP. Carl Hulse of the New York Times talks to Polit...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and WRKF
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
In celebration of May Day, The Artsy Fartsy Show covered art in immigrant communities, activism and the artistic influences within the Occupy Wall ...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 52:11
The military has reached PR honor overload. Simply put, they’re receiving too many slices of the honor pie and in the process the public is gettin...
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 06:50
Politics and Civility--natural allies or unlikely partners? You decide
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 28:31
Pilot episode: what does it mean to be fully transparent, politically speaking?
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 28:30
Tired of the usual pundits? This program provides a unique
"take" on The State of the Union events--the seating, the speech by the President and th...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 49:38
A Vox Pop musical piece from polling places around the Bay Area
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 03:21
Does Barack Obama really have a "Jewish Problem"?
Bought by Interfaith Voices, KFAI Minneapolis, and Remix Radio
- Added: Sep 11, 2008
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 3
