PRX - Pieces for Topic: Public Affairs
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Getting around sprawling Santa Clara County is a trick for anyone, but for those without housing, getting to and from services and opportunities is...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
The main prayer hall at Gurdwara Sahib Fremont, the Fremont Sikh temple, is a cavernous room. A beautiful marble center aisle leads to an altar, wh...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 08:22
Last year, when the St. Paul Public Library vacated a building in East St. Paul, another venture moved in—and its dynamic focus is spelled out in i...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 2
The Minnesota state flag has a history that dates back more than 120 years. Throughout that time, the flag has received both praise and criticism f...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 03:28
Every year, over the course of a weekend, San Francisco’s Civic Center is transformed into a giant playground.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:59
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is one of the state's most iconic entities, renowned worldwide for its top-quality healthcare. KFAI produc...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 28, 2015
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Kayla Sargent reports on EarthCorps International, a program that brings young international students to the Seattle area for preservation efforts
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:04
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
In Monte Rio, a rural community on the Russian River a few miles south of Guerneville, volunteer Fire Chief Steve Baxman is on-call 24 hours a day....
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Usually, people who emerge from the 16th Street BART Station in San Francisco are greeted by men and women slumped over shopping carts, by panhandl...
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 2
I’m here at Pick-n-Pull to sell my beat-up 1998 Subaru Outback Legacy to the State of California under the Consumer Assistance Program, or CAP.
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 12:51
To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. And yet for people of color who enjoy the outdoors, exploring Minnesota's wilderness spaces can be ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Mosaic artist Daud Abdullah up-cycles pieces of trashed pottery, tile, mirror, and glass to make public art on garbage cans in Oakland and Richmond.
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Jesse Moss talks recapturing cinematic freedom, finding common ground, and surrendering to the moment.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 16:58
- Purchases: 1
Kevin Gordon talks risk, impatience, and why form must follow function.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 12:49
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin talk loopholes, dark money, and unexpected ironies.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 25:20
Rob Reiner talks redefining conservative, continuing education, and looking someone in the eye.
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 11:41
I met Ben Rivers in 2011. Though only 41 years old, he had Parkinson’s disease for 10 years. At that point in time, most any kind of movement was h...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 12:44
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
Betsy. Buttercup. Bambi. Those are not Disney characters but three of the eight female bison that live at the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park. Sa...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 1
In a quiet spot, just west of the bustle of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, sits a garden dedicated to English literature’s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
At 49 years of age, Michael Santos is getting his first taste of college. He's walking through the main quad at San Francisco State, beaming like a...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 09:35
