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A $25 million federal grant has been awarded to improve math achievement in low-income middle schools across the nation. Ground zero for the progra...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 53:59
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
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
A weekly look at humanitarian issues affecting the people of our planet
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 2
CASPER, Wyo. - A federal study of the use of silica in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in oil and gas fields found that workers are sometimes ov...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 02:07
CHINOOK, Mont. - Border control powers under the Department of Homeland Security would be expanded under a bill approved by the U.S. House of Repre...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 02:09
CONCORD, N.H. - The risks to water and wildlife if tar sands from Alberta are sent through an existing, aging pipeline across Vermont, New Hampshir...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:34
DENVER - A group of Front Range water providers is worried that the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of potential water use by oil shale compa...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:01
New York, NY - The Cuomo administration appears to have a new "fracking plan" that would place geographic limitations on shale gas drilling in New ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:55
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The fast-moving High Park Fire sent a plume of choking smoke over the Front Range urban corridor on Tuesday morning - the mos...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:52
DES MOINES, Iowa – Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) save energy and last longer than incandescent bulbs, but when they do burn out, disposing...
- Added: Jun 08, 2012
- Length: 01:13
ALBANY, N.Y. - A number of union workers from New York State are in Wisconsin, where they've been helping in an effort to recall that state's gover...
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 01:47
NEW CASSEL, N.Y. - A New York law that keeps details of internal police investigations and disciplinary actions sealed is being criticized, especia...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 02:29
DENVER – El paisaje natural de Colorado es igual a beneficios económicos, y no sólo en recreación al aire libre y en turismo. Tales son los resulta...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 02:14
Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 02:26
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois lawmakers have less than two weeks in this session to do something about approximately $8 billion in overdue bills. Th...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 02:31
From: Michigan News Connection
LANSING, Mich. - The Violence Against Women Act has been renewed twice with bipartisan support since originally passed in 1994, but this year's rea...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 02:02
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee takes up the new defense budget on Tuesday, and an issue that's sure to come up is the Navy's...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 01:35
AUSTIN, Texas - A treasure trove for true-crime fans is being touted as near-proof that the state of Texas executed an innocent man. Available onli...
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 02:25
BISMARCK, N.D. - Poverty rates in the Midwest and Great Plains, including North Dakota, are generally higher in rural counties than in the urban ce...
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 01:34
When one in six Arizonans is on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), it's big news when a congressi...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 02:16
Episode #11 includes: Kindergarteners With Guns, A Brief History of End Times, In The Constitution Game Show, Apple's iBall, Homage to the Wealthy,...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 27:02
Alzheimer’s is the incurable disease that destroys memory, speech and function. Scientists say the number of Americans with Alzheimer's may triple...
Bought by KOSU, WNYC, KQED, KZYX, and Maine Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 5
