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"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...
- Added: Aug 20, 2015
- Length: 03:21:46
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...
Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 2
New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 17:53
- Purchases: 1
Students at Lewiston High launched a town wide dialogue about race after the principal ordered to students to take down posters proclaiming “Black ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 3
Journalist and MPR host Cathy Wurzer and educator Bruce Kramer embarked on a series of broadcast conversations as Bruce dealt with ALS, about how f...
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 24:03
This is a story that compares the Baby Boomer's inability to let go of stuff to the same problem when removing old buildings in Thief River Falls, ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Chris Schumacher may be serving a life sentence, but when he runs, he feels a sense of freedom. Once an addict, he now finds that exercise can curb...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 04:30
In the most recent election, San Francisco voters approved a $500-million transportation bond for projects like BART escalators, traffic signals, b...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 07:56
- Purchases: 1
One in four homeless people are veterans. There are approximately 800 homeless veterans on San Francisco’s streets.Experts in the field believe the...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 09:07
Every morning in the Tenderloin, when people all around San Francisco are starting to wake up, around 30 people gather at St. Boniface Church, wait...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 08:07
We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2015
- Length: 13:13
Two young men from Cape Cod make a documentary about heroin addiction in Massachusetts -- as a way of coping with their own recovery.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Ben Todd restores guitars for The Trading Musician in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. And he's become deeply embedded in the local music scene. B...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 12:56
- Purchases: 1
A new study connects football in younger players to possible behavioral changes. And one high school cancels the rest of the football season becaus...
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 10:03
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
The best of the latest offerings in the realms of Electronica, House, Chill Out, Electro House, Techno, and Psy-Trance!
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 58:57
In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 56:03
- Purchases: 5
Protests against the tech industry’s impact on housing have grown in number and variety. They’ve been personal, with individual tech executives bei...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 05:23
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 1
While many schools across the country are facing budget cuts and teacher layoffs, students at highly reputable universities are signing up in drove...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WXDU
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:18
- Purchases: 2
When it comes to what society finds attractive many factors play a role. Evolutionarily speaking we tend to be attracted to symmetry, and markers t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 07:20
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:54
What's the answer?
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 03:25
What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 05:14
- Purchases: 3
A 60 second quake, wreaked complete, long term havoc over the country of Haiti
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 26:50
