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Immigration journalist Bekah McNeel speaks on the subtleties of this controversial topic.

Bought by KSTK, WDSE, and WOJB


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Thanksgiving is coming up – and once again turkey will be the star of the show. But there’s always an issue with side dishes. No worries, a busines...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Host Martha Burk
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Hot piece on Sears, Eddie Lampert and workers severance. Hot piece. Preview first- true Money Matters stuff. Controversial for sure.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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Still more blurring of the lines between news and entertainment. Now they've upped the ante by using news programs to promote their own entertainme...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KMXT, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 3
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What we learned from the Senate confirmation hearings for Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense...told through narration, music and soundbites.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:55
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Notes, thoughts and observations from a lifelong NYC biker on the art of cycling ( I have the broken bones to prove it )and what the real lesson is...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 57:53
Caption: Senator Carraro is an Average Joe
We need to change the qualifications for running for President as well as Congress. Obviously the candidates we've had in the past were not the cho...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:29
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Big for-profit corporations are subsidized to earn profit.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2011
  • Length: 12:09
Caption: Derequired?, Credit: Susan Cook
We need a new word for those who think "required" health care coverage is pesky and unconstitutional.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: :57
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Turning off the water pumps in the Central California Valley to protect the smelt is criminal and will destroy our nations agriculture.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Senator Joe Carraro discusses how the economy is being driven to ruin by people who keep screwing up and getting ahead.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro asks: If the Republicans are so sure of their ideas, why are they so afraid to debate them with President Obama and the Democrats?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro proposes that if Congress is really representative of the people, then its members will give up its overpaid salaries and benefits and ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the fall of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street firm he worked for as a stockbroker. He compares the greed and ineptitude of Thain...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:16
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The definition of a Recession has changed from many years ago. It started during George W. Bush's second term and will continue until all the reso...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
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Former U.N. chief nuclear weapons inspector is the "U.N. sleuth slammed by the truth." Ritter was the first high profile public official to tell t...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2009
  • Length: 13:52
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1