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Sonnet for Wink, Wink
-Susan Cook-
There are places here on earth where a wink
at the wro...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: :52
- Purchases: 1
Poems are solace in times of not knowing.
Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well.
"There are events that narrowly avoid
crossing our paths, eve...
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- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 20:54
Without phones, people who need housing and services have less of a chance of getting help. In Missoula, Montana, two programs that aim to close th...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 02:52
Trader Joe's president creates a new non-profit grocery store that solves major American problems: wasted food and food desserts.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Styrofoam has long been the bane of environmentalists. In San Francisco, this harmful material is finally getting banned.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Thousands of abandoned bikes from Burning Man Festival are put to good use.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A safe place to sleep for the homeless, on buses, designed as sleeping pods.
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:22
From America's Sonnet, "This sonnet's yours America, but you
will not take all my loves, turn my Black, brown, blue."
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: :57
Some years back The House of Representatives' healthcare bill denied maternity care and denied health insurance to 18 to 25 year olds. Back then...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 01:07
- Purchases: 1
Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a loca...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 33:34
“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:22
This week on Minnesota Native News, a new team is in place to help tribal members heal from addictions and the Indigenous Students Association at A...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KVSC, KMSU, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 11
Some people rely on Medicaid to access health care. Or they use other federal benefits, like food stamps and housing assistance, to build the found...
- Added: Jan 27, 2019
- Length: 05:52
On today’s program:
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson explains why London thinks Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on a forme...
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 58:59
Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 16:26
A great entity with chapters in 14 states and Washington .D.C. Pride helps find employment for people with disabilities. A must hear newscast.
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- Added: Dec 03, 2017
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 02:43
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 02:54
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 02:57
The Senate Intelligence Committee hearings about Russian meddling in the 2016 election are Scurrilous one especially important testifier said.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 02:00