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In an age of big data, even police departments are getting in on the action. In Los Angeles, the LAPD are using software for what they call “predic...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Hark!, WTIP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KQED
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 5
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 06:50
Pam McKissick and her three guests uncover the dirty truth about horse slaughter and give voice to "the other side" on behalf of 80 percent of the ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:43
- Purchases: 2
In Ohio, some of the best pockets of oil and gas in the East run right under Amish country. Reid Frazier found the drilling boom is confronting the...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 06:37
A fence separates Hamden, a Connecticut suburb, from three public housing projects in the neighboring city of New Haven.
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 07:26
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
Alternative economic strategies are growing--go Kickstart your Cash Mob into the TimeBank.
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 28:35
Complicated commercial development can have as many layers of financing as Turkish pastry has layers of phyllo.
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 28:31
When life gives you sludge, old medical equipment and poop...make nature preserves, life saving supplies and energy.
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:31
The emergency room at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital sees its fair share of gun shot victims, both teenagers and adults. Y-Press visited Wishard to...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 04:18
The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:42
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...
- Added: Mar 16, 2012
- Length: 03:38
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
Members of the Parkside community and Vernon triangle met on Feb. 29 to discuss the future of the former Fairfield public library. The building, de...
- Added: Mar 01, 2012
- Length: 04:09
For the past twenty years, Shepherd's Clinic in Baltimore has provided comprehensive health care to the uninsured -- without any government funding...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
It’s called a gang injunction. A controversial crime tool strategy that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last reso...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 13:36
This 90-second short feature briefly explores whether the often frantic reporting on a severe weather event mirrored the reality of those who exper...
- Added: Aug 28, 2011
- Length: 01:24
The outgoing FDIC commissioner gives her final speech at the National Press Club. She discusses the financial crisis that occured during her time a...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 53:57
Until very recently Philadelphians recycled a dismal five-percent of their trash. But all that began to change a few years ago when the city steppe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WTIP
- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 2
We need to move forward to find a cause for Autism without fear to question and innovate and just maybe get closer to understanding what we're deal...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 12:41
Cannon Point is a one-block stretch in Broward County, Florida, with the highest concentration of mental health assisted-living facilities in the s...
Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUT, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 07:51
- Purchases: 5
John Mark Scott and special guest Robert Dodge interview Joshua Stacker and Andrew Tabler both W & J Alums who have spent time in the Middle East
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 36:48
One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
