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Trying to Game the System, Missouri Legislature Proposes Ballot Question Rule Changes to Head Off Reproductive Rights Question in November
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Trying to Game the System, Missouri Legislature Proposes Ballot Question Rule Changes to Head Off Reproductive Rights Question in November

Bought by Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Vets who were exposed to chemicals in the Panama Canal Zone want to be included in the PACT Act
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Steven Price served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. He says he was exposed to Agent Orange, DDT, and other toxins. He later developed chronic B-cell leukemia., Credit: Courtesy Steven Price
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Bought by WRFA-LP, KTEP, and WHRV


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Nonpartisan Report Recommends Ways Local Officials Can Expand Voter Participation and Recruit Election Workers Using Public/Private Partnerships
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Nonpartisan Report Recommends Ways Local Officials Can Expand Voter Participation and Recruit Election Workers Using Public/Private Partnerships

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
True the Vote’s Claim of Evidence of 2020 Ballot Stuffing in Georgia Were . . . Not True
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
True the Vote’s Claim of Evidence of 2020 Ballot Stuffing in Georgia Were . . . Not True

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
The Marine Corps says its pandemic-related uniform shortage is easing and should end by mid-summer
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Marine Corps recruits get sized during their first uniform fitting at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 11, 2023., Credit: Jacob Hutchinson / U.S. Marine Corps
The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of inflation and COVID-related labor shortages.

Bought by KPBS, KUT, WRFA-LP, and KTEP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 4
In April 2 Presidential Primaries, Wisconsin Voters Approve Restraints on Running Elections; Large Numbers of Voters Unhappy With Nominees
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
In April 2 Presidential Primaries, Wisconsin Voters Approve Restraints on Running Elections; Large Numbers of Voters Unhappy With Nominees

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Despite the Salacious Details, Trump’s Alleged NY ‘Hush Money’ Actions Covered Up Serious Campaign Finance Violations
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Despite the Salacious Details, Trump’s Alleged NY ‘Hush Money’ Actions Covered Up Serious Campaign Finance Violations

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for Antoinette
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This is a sonnet written for Antoinette, the school receptionist at the school in Georgia where a man stood outside, then fired a high powered wea...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
2024-03-29 Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disru...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, WGCU, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
240329: Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation, 3/29/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disru...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:55
Have You Been Purged? States Have Stepped Up Removals of Inactive Voters - Sometimes for Partisan Advantage – and It’s Time to Check Your Registration
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Have You Been Purged? States Have Stepped Up Removals of Inactive Voters - Sometimes for Partisan Advantage. It’s Time to Check Your Registration

Bought by Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Five States Are Considering Conspiracy-Fueled Legislation Which Bans Ballot Tabulators. But Fed-Up Voters are Pushing Back.
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Five States Are Considering Conspiracy-Fueled Legislation Which Bans Ballot Tabulators. But Fed-Up Voters are Pushing Back.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On an orange background, six black line illustrations depicting: a COVID-19 virus, a face mask, a lung filled with COVID viruses, a person's head tilted back with a nose swab, a swab in a test tube, and a rapid antigen test. In between these illustrations, Credit: Original image by jKartak from Pixabay. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to tak...

Bought by WUWM, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
April 2nd Wisconsin Ballot Measures Would Prohibit Outside Help & Funding, Hampering Small Town Elections
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report, Credit: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
April 2nd Wisconsin Ballot Measures Would Prohibit Outside Help & Funding, Hampering Small Town Elections

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
How the Changing Social Media Landscape Could Hamper the Fight Against Disinformation from Both Foreign and Domestic Bad Actors
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
How the Changing Social Media Landscape Could Hamper the Fight Against Disinformation from Both Foreign and Domestic Bad Actors

Bought by WUTC and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Eco Report – March 15, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week’s Eco Report feature we hear from Elisa Pokral, Community Outreach Coordinator of the newly rebranded Waste Reduction District of Monr...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:09
The American-Made Cuban Crisis
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Crisis to Normalization – and Back Again

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Artists with Disabilities Rebel in Joy
From: KRCL
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An interview with Stan Clawson of Art Access, a nonprofit that increases accessibility in the arts through opportunities for artists with disabilit...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 05:26
Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?
From: Tradeoffs
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17

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