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A Year After Indiana's Historic HIV Outbreak, Addiction Treatment Options Lag
From: Side Effects Public Media
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It’s been a year since Governor Mike Pence declared a public health emergency in response to the historic HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana. Th...

Bought by WABE and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
New Access To Federal Funds For Syringe Exchange Is Welcome Support For Rural Areas Facing Addiction
From: Side Effects Public Media
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Fayette County is like a lot of other rural counties these days, where rates of injection drug abuse and of hepatitis C are on the rise, but fundin...

Bought by WABE and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 2
Indiana ACLU Sues To Demand Medicaid Reimburse For Hepatitis C Drugs
From: Side Effects Public Media
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In the last few years, new medications have come on the market that can cure hepatitis C with a more than 90 percent success rate, but for some peo...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2015
  • Length: 03:27
Water Pressure 3: Water Isn't Just Running Out In California
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Swansea Water Manager Robert Marquis
Our biggest source of freshwater is running out -- everywhere.

Bought by WABE, WLPR , and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 3
Water Pressure 1: New England Stole California's Snow
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
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Our relationship with water is changing, and we can’t ignore that water’s moods are getting a lot more dramatic.

Bought by WLPR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 2
Sunsetting the Patriot Act with NSA Whistle-Blower, Kirk Wiebe
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Kirk Wiebe
Unspun talks over the illegal surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency with NSA retiree and whistle-blower, Kirk Wiebe. Next Monda...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 59:50
  • Purchases: 1
Part Five: Counting The Invisible
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Joe Fox is a resident of Safe Haven in Kennett, Mo., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:24
Part Two: Desperately Seeking Doctors
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Judith Haggard is one of two nurse practitioners at the Otto Bean Medical Center in Kennett, Mo. The clinic has no full-time doctor so Haggard works with a collaborating physician outside of the SEMO Health Network, which runs Otto Bean., Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
One night with the SF Homeless Outreach Team
From: KALW
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When most people are on their way to sleep, San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team, or SF HOT, is just beginning its graveyard shift.

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Supreme Court hears state judicial campaign financing case
From: Free Speech Radio News
Caption: U.S. Supreme Court building, Credit: Adam Groffman via Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons
A news report from Nell Abram in Tampa on Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
After a fatal heroin overdose, the grief lingers for a family
From: WITF
Caption: Stephen Mercado (Anthony's stepfather), Jesse Perez and Stacy Emminger (Anthony's mother), Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
NOTE: This piece pairs best with a companion piece called Heroin addiction robs family of son. This traces the Emminger family's grief since they...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Heroin addiction robs Lancaster County family of son
From: WITF
Caption: Anthony Perez and his son Gage., Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:07
Unspun Touches Bases With Heidi Hall, Congressional Candidate District 1
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Heidi Hall
Unspun talks with Heidi Hall about the important issues that face us and her exciting and demanding campaign.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:03
Learning to Live Together - Problems facing the Peace-builders
From: Mike Hally
Series: Learning to Live Together - Conflict and Peace-building Northern Ireland
Caption: A paramilitary mural in a loyalist housing estate, Credit: Mike Hally
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:53
Physician Assisted Death in Colorado
From: Vero Balderas Iglesias
Caption: Reporter Veronica Balderas Iglesias interviewing Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosing physician assisted death.
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
How one Bay Area city is causing national controversy with local gun control
From: Liz Pfeffer
Caption: Former Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri leading a City Council meeting last January when the new gun ordinance went into effect., Credit: Liz Pfeffer
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
How Could Plastic Surgery Alleviate Migraines? And Why Are Some Neurologists Wary?
From: Michael Miller
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Some plastic surgeons are touting an unexpected benefit of cosmetic surgery: it may help alleviate migraine pain. But neurologists are skeptical a...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
  • Purchases: 1
Russians Buckle Up
From: Julia Barton
Caption: The NGO "Road Safety Russia" has been using photos like this to promote child car seat use., Credit: Road Safety Russia
A lot of people die on Russian roads. But things are getting better thanks to better enforcement and a clever public service ad campaign.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
Question 1
From: Ben Buddig
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On November 5th the city of Portland, Maine legalized small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Ben Buddig brings you this story of how this wil...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
Guns and Suicide: The Hidden Toll (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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The gun control debate often centers around homicides and the fear of someone else with a gun. However, attention is rarely paid to the link betwee...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUER, WXDU, PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 7
Insult to Injury?: American Indian Sports Mascots
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Long segment for 1-3-14
From: Middle Ground
Series: Middle Ground
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Mr. Midwest joins us to talk about early polling for the Iowa caucus, pot in Colorado and stiff competition between states to lure a new Boeing pla...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Aftermath of an Ellis Act Eviction
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: San Francisco's North Beach where Marla Knight has lived for 48 years, Credit: Daniel Schwen
Marla Knight is packing up her home of 48 years. She’s been evicted from her North Beach apartment because the owners are converting it to tenancie...

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
Dozens in Albany homeless encampment prepare for clearout
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Dan Paul with his sculpture. Paul and the other Bulb residents face eviction soon, Credit: Mary Rees
On the west side of the city of Albany, there’s a peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay. It’s beautiful there, right on the water, with hiking t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
Middle Ground Long Segment for 12-13-13
From: Celeste Headlee
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Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma

  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 09:58