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New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
Without ever knowing it, you may have driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today’s human trafficking n...
Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 07:26
- Purchases: 5
Yesterday we brought you a story about a small town 50 miles North of Memphis. A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 2
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Across the nation in dozens of communities, veterans are being diverted to special courts for crimes they've committed after and in large measure b...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 03:43
Ashley and Jason talk a lot about money, but this week they hit the streets to talk folks in Bloomington, IN about their holiday spending habits an...
- Added: Dec 14, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Host Rich Fish tells you what you need to know about Green Dot MoneyPak, a popular new way to pay bills and recharge prepaid debit cards. But when ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 04:37
Kashawna Williams, an administrative justice major at Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif., and a former foster youth, discusses her drive to fix the ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: :43
As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
Host Richard Fish crashes your wedding party with a warning about the artificially inflated costs of getting married. If you’re gonna say "I Do" ma...
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 04:59
It’s common practice for a person developing his or her property to hire an engineering firm. An engineer typically plays a role in designing plans...
- Added: Jun 20, 2012
- Length: 08:33
If you're planning a summer getaway, make sure you don't get TAKEN. Host watchdog Rich Fish is busting travel scams on a new edition of Bloomington...
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 04:57
Eva Miller was a high school teacher in an inner city high school when she noticed her students needed something more in their lives, so she create...
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 04:12
Joe Hunter is a former gang member from the mean streets of Detroit. He's created a non-profit to support his efforts to stop gang violence in Mem...
- Added: May 17, 2012
- Length: 06:20
This week's edition of Bloomington Beware! is anything but SWEET as host Rich Fish warns of scams preying on Hoosiers with diabetes.
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 04:59
Host Rich Fish runs us through the most common complaints received by the office of the Indiana Attorney General. That's on a new edition of our co...
- Added: Apr 18, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Host Rich Fish says the tornadoes that ripped through Southern Indiana last Friday are sure to bring a wave of storm chasing scams. That's on a new...
- Added: Mar 07, 2012
- Length: 04:53
Host Rich Fish says home financing is sometimes a house of cards but the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can help you stack the deck.
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Added: Dec 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Changing Gears reporters spent a week on the road, traveling to places throughout the Midwest where local economies and town cultures revolve aroun...
- Added: Dec 14, 2011
- Length: 20:12
This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 06:55
Tiny Spark takes a look at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and explores its unintended consequences: corruption, fraud and child t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 1
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WBEZ, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 3
