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Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 2
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 55: Following up on our first "Responding to Crazy Talk" episode last month, we decided to publish a second edition this week. Again, Lisa...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 21:11
Responding to "Crazy Talk" Vol. 1
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 50: For our 50th episode, we're trying something new: Lisa and I respond to three common claims made by opponents of community owned networ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 12:40
Dewayne Hendricks Vol. 3 - Explaining National Information Infrastructure
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 34: Have you heard of the National Information Infrastructure, or the NII? Most of us either haven't, or have forgotten we once knew what i...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 30:34
Dewayne Hendricks Vol. 2
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 25: Dewayne Hendricks has returned for his second appearance on the Community Broadband Bits Podcast, continuing our discussion about the ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 24:07
Dewayne Hendricks Vol. 1
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
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Episode 18: Dewayne Hendricks is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, and wireless expert. Wired magazine labeled him a broadband cowboy back in 2001...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 26:34
The Real Threats from Monopoly
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 83: When we think about the threat of monopoly, we almost always focus on how monopolies can raise prices beyond what is reasonable. But th...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:42
Water Pressure 5: Water Businesses Need a "Moment of Truth"
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
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There are plenty of entrepreneurs coming up with solutions to the many problems with water. But they're not getting enough interested investors.

Bought by WABE and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Water Pressure 4: Water's Taking it Back
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
Caption: Melting Alaskan glacier, Credit: Rupa Shenoy
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 1
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 2: When It Rains, It Floods -- and Pollutes
From: Rupa Shenoy
Series: Water Pressure
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Our progress on cleaning up waterways has stalled, and scientists are blaming... everyone.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 2
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
Life of the Law Episode #59: The Trauma Room
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
Improving the Relationship Between Citizens and Police
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We asked a number of different stakeholders for their top ideas about improving the relationship between citizens and their law enforcement officer...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KSFR, KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNIJ and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Colorado Ready for Hillary
From: Kenneth Flowe
Caption: Contemplating, Credit: Google Imiages
This is a voxpop of Producer Kenneth Flowe talking to Colorado Voters. It is fashioned in the "Man On The Street" style of programing.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2015
  • Length: 04:02
Ending Extreme Inequality
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, Credit: Host, Senior Producer
Show #80 Hour 1 April 11, 2015 | Guest: Scott J. Myers-Lipton, Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State Unive...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
  • Purchases: 1
Doctors Medical Center San Pablo closing down on April 21
From: Gabriel J Sanchez
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Doctors Medical Center is the biggest public hospital and is closing on April 21, 2015.

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:46
CAPS bridges the gap for Fremont seniors
From: KALW
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The main prayer hall at Gurdwara Sahib Fremont, the Fremont Sikh temple, is a cavernous room. A beautiful marble center aisle leads to an altar, wh...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
Political Junkie Minisode 2-18-15
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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While Republicans in Congress remain furious with President Obama and his planned executive orders to alter immigration policy, the respective Sena...

Bought by KCCU Radio, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
Cannabis Radio News #26
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In this edition we study a year of legal marijuana in Colorado and more. We hear from Marco Vasquez, Chief of Police in Erie, Colorado and Marijua...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jan 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Prison fellowship aids in recovery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Breaking the Fever
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Ophelia Dahl just back from Liberia and Sierra Leone, Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and poverty guru, and Dr. Jim Cunningham, the virus detecti...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Cannabis Radio News #15
From: Cannabis Radio News
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Bob Eschino, co-founder of the Boulder-based Medically Correct and member of Colorado's marijuana edibles work group tells us about the negotiation...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Marijuana Investor News Weekly Update #5
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Marijuana Investor News Weekly
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Publisher of the Marijuana Investor News, David Friedman, discusses the latest cannabis business news with CRN’s Brian Bahouth … this week David Fr...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:34
Cannabis Radio News #9
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In CRN 9, Jim Gierach, former prosecutor in Chicago and an executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP responds to the Gl...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 11, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
What's Next In Ferguson, MO? - One Degree of Separation
From: Nick Jaworski
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What's Next in Ferguson, MO? After the shooting of Michael Brown, many are left wondering what are the best ways to move forward. Nick Jaworski ta...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:23