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This is a special edition of The Closer, a series from Project Brazen and PRX that shares the inside story of the deals that changed the world. In ...
Bought by WILL, WRKF, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 52:29
- Purchases: 19
California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:48
During the pandemic, Cleveland officials and local health care providers took too long to get translators for Spanish speaking COVID-19 patients. T...
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 19:19
Our collaborator at Cicero Independiente investigates active measures being taken by local government there to suppress Latinos' freedom of speech.
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 20:05
We go back to Schuyler, Nebraska to learn whether educational equity is being achieved there. We found that while changes are happening, more is ne...
- Added: May 29, 2022
- Length: 15:35
In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 27:08
Republicans say they hate debt. So why did they push for a tax bill that would add almost two trillion dollars to the country’s tab? Only one Repub...
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 42:50
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
Who is Steven Mnuchin? He somehow manages to fly under the radar, but as Treasury Secretary he has tremendous power. How did a man with no record o...
- Added: Sep 24, 2020
- Length: 35:39
"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio.
The Women's Med Center is ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 04:08
Rows of silver and pink plastic packages sit on the bathroom counter inside Bean, a Louisville coffee shop. Each package carries these words: emerg...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
When José moved his family to the U.S. from Mexico nearly two decades ago, he had hopes of giving his children a better life.
But now he worries a...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
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
Sea level rise is a global concern, and on the whole, policy and funding for mitigation aren’t keeping pace. Today on Gen Anthro, producer Isha Sal...
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 10:52
- Purchases: 2
If you have the money, getting out of jail can be straightforward. If you don't, you're going to need some help.
Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 3
It’s been a year since Governor Mike Pence declared a public health emergency in response to the historic HIV outbreak in Scott County, Indiana. Th...
Bought by WABE and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE
- Added: Jan 25, 2016
- Length: 09:13
- Purchases: 2
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
Laws that required cops to live in the cities they patrolled were common in the early 1900’s and still exist in the United States today. However, s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 28:08
- Purchases: 1
Water is claiming more coastal land, everywhere. So, do we prepare for that, or protect against it?
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 06:07
- Purchases: 1
Resources are pretty sparse down here in the Bootheel. No single town has every service to meet the homeless community’s needs. The apartments at S...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:24
The Missouri Bootheel is a region emblematic of the social and medical problems facing rural Missouri, and really, all of rural America. Life expec...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WABE
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 2
Outspent 3 to 1 by multinational seed companies, the citizens of Jackson County, Oregon successfully campaigned to ban GMO crops.
- Added: Jun 09, 2014
- Length: 07:42
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
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
