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Caption: U.S. Supreme Court building, Credit: Adam Groffman via Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons
A news report from Nell Abram in Tampa on Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
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Home prices are higher than ever before in the Bay Area. So it begs the question: are we in a housing bubble or a housing crisis?

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
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Host Doug Storm offers selections from two previous shows on the state of public education in Indiana and the nation.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:11
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A group of citizens continues to work to delay a measure adopted by the Bloomington City Council to thin out the deer population at Griffy Lake – t...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
Caption: Heidi Hall
Unspun talks with Heidi Hall about the important issues that face us and her exciting and demanding campaign.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:03
Caption: The police in Gary, Ind., 1908, Credit: Library of Congress
Producer Nina Earnest explores how the professionalization of the Los Angeles Police Department -intended to free the police from municipal corrupt...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 10:46
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A paramilitary mural in a loyalist housing estate, Credit: Mike Hally
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
Caption: Reporter Veronica Balderas Iglesias interviewing Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosing physician assisted death.
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
Caption: Community worker at the Skegoneill interface, Credit: Mike Hally 2014
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
Caption: Former Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri leading a City Council meeting last January when the new gun ordinance went into effect., Credit: Liz Pfeffer
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
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On November 5th the city of Portland, Maine legalized small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Ben Buddig brings you this story of how this wil...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 06:39
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Like everywhere in the Bay Area, home prices in Oakland have recently gone through the roof. The price of a house there is up almost 70 percent in ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:00
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San Francisco has some of the country’s highest reports of human trafficking. It’s one of the top 10 cities in the U.S where trafficking is the worst.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Bay Area Bike Share station in front of San Francisco City Hall, Credit: Isabel Angell
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 07:24
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Mr. Midwest joins us to talk about early polling for the Iowa caucus, pot in Colorado and stiff competition between states to lure a new Boeing pla...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Dan Paul with his sculpture. Paul and the other Bulb residents face eviction soon, Credit: Mary Rees
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
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The name Andy Lopez probably didn’t ring a bell before October 22, 2013. On that afternoon, the 13-year-old Lopez was just a kid playing with a BB ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:35
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Stories from South Dakota, Michigan and Oklahoma

  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 09:58
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If you walk upstairs from the kitchen at Mother Brown’s drop-in center in the evening, you’ll find dozens of people sleeping in chairs. During the ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: Ricardo Orozco, Area 3 Captain, OPD, Credit: Oakland Police Department
Oakland Police Captain Ricardo Orozco says he’s living his dream of being a cop. “Ever since I was a small boy, the show that I always liked to wa...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:20
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Background Music: Serious, deep thought, with groove

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
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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
Caption: Mike Parker reviewing his energy bill, Credit: Laura Flynn
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
Caption: OPD officers engage with local community members during their annual open house, Credit: Kyung Jin Lee
Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:59