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Unspun was honored to talk with Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff for Colin Powell for the hour.
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 01:00:10
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
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 05, 2014
- Length: 07:47
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
The United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of inc...
Bought by KRZA, XRAY.fm, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 30, 2013
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
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
Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 03:58
When people get into trouble with the law, they normally don’t have a chance to have a conversation with their victims. To explain what happened. H...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
You might have heard about CleanPowerSF. It’s a program that would allow San Franciscans to choose where their electricity comes from. This model o...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 10:39
If you walked along the San Francisco waterfront recently, you may have noticed giant catamarans -- specialized, 72-foot long sailboats that whizz ...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 05:44
To secure the border, the Senate committee says we need more drones. But it has been widely reported that drones on the border are ineffective.
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 04:12
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 26:32
One of the areas hit hardest by state budget cuts is California’s judicial branch. Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature cut $350 million from t...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:56
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss the New York Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and their exemplary five-point st...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Nov 28, 2012
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 1
For the past 39 years, the California’s 15th Congressional District has been represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by 81-year-old Pete S...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: 04:42
In February, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of an existing ban on plastic, single-use bags to apply to restaurants, ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Richmond voters will decide on November 6 whether to authorize an extra cent tax on sugary beverages like soda. KALW's Isaac Silk talked with local...
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 04:21
Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, two things shaped the Oakland Police Department. The city had one of the highest crime rates in Cal...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 10:07
A string of incidents that have pushed the Oakland Police Department closer and closer to a federal takeover. But to understand how the OPD got to ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 08:12
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
The Oakland Unified School District is in debt to the state. It owes $6 million a year until 2026 and needs every dollar it can save. But over the ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 08:09
The city of Oakland considers a risky wager to cover pension debt.
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 05:54
Alternative economic strategies are growing--go Kickstart your Cash Mob into the TimeBank.
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 28:35
