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Frank “the Bear” Abramovitz lost his wife to cancer. That’s when he took over her business, and became a bounty hunter.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 10:21
America's first African American female millionaire.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBEM, KSKA, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM and more
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 8
Amy O'Leary, a former producer for This American Life, is our reader here, contributing author of the book, Should I Go To Grad School: 41 Answers ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
A mother, her son, and the food that keeps them together.
- Added: Dec 02, 2013
- Length: 06:12
This is a rare insider story about a man who immigrated to this country at the age of 12, went to the grocery store and had an incident that would ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2013
- Length: 16:29
In Maine, Bass fishing on West Grand Lake is a destination respite for many, including Mr. Nouriel Roubini, the legendary economist who was almost ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 03:18
Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters of the century...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 2
During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 03:54
"Make it. That's it. It's not gonna happen the first time you do it and you cannot become discouraged that it didn't work because all it is is just...
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 19:25
"I don't want to make you feel small. I want to make you feel like you can do whatever you want to do, because people like you are doing it." - Dan...
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 17:29
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:39
How much money does marijuana actually bring into Humboldt county, California?
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Feb 10, 2012
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 1
A lobsterman and his girlfriend try to build the market for locally caught and processed lobster, in an increasingly global industry.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix, KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2011
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 5
Delayed gratification has changed. Social science experiments often mirror cultural values and our best learners absorb them well. They do what th...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 02:57
When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 05:42
Joe Carraro discusses his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, and how he was the only true small businessman in the then-governor's small business ro...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:28
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 01:42
- Added: Dec 12, 2010
- Length: 01:15
- Added: Nov 28, 2010
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
You can learn things that will make you uncomfortable
- Added: Nov 25, 2010
- Length: 02:53
Time to rethink a forgotten business mandate and increase business profitability...
- Added: Sep 18, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 01:48
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: :36
- Purchases: 1
We are told that there is status in skin color
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 01:14
