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Caption: Inside the Afghan Cultural Society in Minneapolis, Credit: Mike Moen
More individuals who have fled Afghanistan are trying to make the Twin Cities their home. A resource site in Minneapolis, now nearing its first an...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 04:15
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Protecting forests by turning them into graveyards.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:19
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In Great Britain, the milkman is returning to your door with glass milk bottles.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A laundry mart owner cleans clothes for the homeless for free.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Doreen Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Change - Doreen Bazile is a social worker. She sees many different patients with distinct needs and issues, regarding spirituality and religion, fa...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:24
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An explanation the Uniform Law Commission Act covering guardianship, conservatorship, power of attorney, protective arrangements, and guardianship ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: 11:27
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This week, The RDD is at a coffee shop in Downtown Bowling Green. Since 1989 Grounds for Thought has offered coffee, used books, records and comic...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
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This week we're talking about The Compassion Games! The Games highlight and record compassionate action in the North West Ohio region in friendly c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
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When kids grow up and see their parents going through drug addiction, you’d think they wouldn’t to do it, but instead it just continues. Sadly, aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ciara G. wakes up at dawn on her way to visit her mother who is currently incarcerated., Credit: R.J. Lozada
The Get on the Bus program provides support and free transportation for children and families throughout California to visit their mothers and fath...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Harvard professor and noted academic Robert Putnam about his bestseller, "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."

  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
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“When I was incarcerated, I had no intention of falling in love. I wasn’t looking for it...Then one day our hands touched.”

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
Caption: The Power of Good Enough
Have you ever felt like you had to be perfect? Maybe it was a job interview, a speech, a meeting you were leading, a performance review, a conflict...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 44:21
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Maine has a large population of senior drivers. How do we keep them safe, and what do these seniors have to say about staying on the road?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:26
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 02:14
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Candace Simar is a Pequot Lakes poet who with her sister Angela Foster, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently re...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:15
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Many foster children live in several homes during a short span of time. All of the disruption has been correlated to poor academic performance.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
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A short commentary that gives a serious yet satirical side on opinions and topics about life in general that an audience can relate to.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 11:12
Caption: Scene IV - Tongue, The Tale of a Wedded Life, Credit: by Cassius M. Collidge, 1877
Of course, forgive and forget? Right?

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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When is a gift philanthropy, and when is it coercion?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2