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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 11
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about local government.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 1: America's Urban-Rural Fault Line
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:37
"Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19"
From: Shirley Jahad
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We bring you stories of "Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19." Each story crosses a line ... from before pandemic ... to after. The stories e...

Bought by Valley Public Radio, KCSB-FM, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 11
Picking Up Scraps: Connecting Rural Massachusetts to the World
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Monopole in Savoy, MA, Credit: James Szkobel-Wolff
The Covid-19 Pandemic has changed how we live and work in the modern era. For most, that’s meant going online. But for an estimated 150 million Ame...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 32:00
Cities Declare Climate Emergency
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Two men address their fear of climate change by getting their cities to declare a climate emergency and commit to rapidly lowering emissions.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Healing Power of Trees
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Volunteers planting trees in Louisville
Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Demand for Power
From: Claudine Ebeid McElwain
Series: Broken Ground
Caption: by the Southern Environmental Law Center
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging proje...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:53
Stopping the Gentrification Train
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Evans Station Lofts
Making neighborhoods sustainable makes them desirable and rising prices push old residents out. Community land trusts in Denver CO and Burlington ...

Bought by WFHB, KGNU Community Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Rising Green From the Ashes
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Wildfire victims rebuild all solar, all electric homes with help from their community energy program. Hear one family's story, learn what makes a h...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Scar on the System
From: WNIN
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When Bloomington, Indiana, psychologist Albert Fink crashed his car and confessed to police that he had falsified a mental evaluation in a criminal...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
Life of the Law #109: Unequal Protection - Part 2
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Warren McCleskey's last words, Credit: Sarah Marshall
Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 32:44
Life of the Law #104: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: addiction, alexander kim, canada, cited podcast, Crosstown Clinic, Dave Murray, diacetylmorphine, Dianne Tobin, fentanyl, gordon katic, Health Canada, Helsinki declaration, heroin, heroin addiction treatment, Kevin Thompson, legal heroin, NAOMI, NPA, over, Credit: Travis Lupick
Doctors usually treat heroin addiction with methadone, but it doesn’t work for everyone. So what do you do? At a small clinic in Vancouver BC, they...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 48:30
Soldier Philosophers Part 2: The Morality of War
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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An army whistle-blower returns to combat during the height of the surge in Iraq, now surrounded me hostile comrades. We then look at the morality o...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 46:14
The Wishes of the Dead
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 46:43
Life of the Law #99: Shaken
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Babyland
Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. A jury in Michigan convicted the young mother of second-degree murder and ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 30:58
Episode 1: Life on a million dollar block
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Kelly Cotton walks through the Westmont neighborhood with her kids, Credit: George Lavender
One small neighborhood of Los Angeles accounted for thousands of bookings into county jail over a five year period.

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 3
Ep. 1: The Death of Kollin Elderts
From: Honolulu Civil Beat
Series: Offshore
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Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 36:35
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #91: Death on a Dairy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Arminio Órtiz Pérez, Credit: Eilís O’Neill
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 20:18
Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars
After an abrupt reversal 20 years ago, some prisons and colleges try to maintain college education for prisoners.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, KUER, WSKG and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Schools in Miami and Pasadena ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, WSKG, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Spare the Rod: Reforming School Discipline
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
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A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WSKG, KUER, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Life of the Law #90: Kids Doing Life
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #87: Bail or Bust
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:06
Life of the Law #83: Recuse Yourself
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:36
Life of the Law #82: The Hold Up
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 22:00