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East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 08:31
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
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
On the west side of the city of Albany, there’s a peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay. It’s beautiful there, right on the water, with hiking t...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 08:25
Martha Shane and Lana Wilson talk fear, safety, and putting people before politics.
- Added: Nov 09, 2013
- Length: 13:41
Soup kitchens in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District feed thousands of homeless and low-income people every day. These free meal sites serve as a v...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 17:19
The cost of living in the Bay Area has risen sharply, especially in the past few years, but the federal benefits that many seniors rely on are ofte...
- Added: Sep 02, 2013
- Length: 07:53
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
Every day, millions of people who take medications also drink grapefruit juice. I do. But most don’t realize the combination can be toxic and even ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 02:00
Immediately after the bombings on Marathon Monday in Boston, media reported that a Saudi man was being being questioned by authorities. Some state...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 19:56
Is college really worth it? Student producers delve into this issue in a half-hour program about the student debt crisis. Radio Documentary student...
Bought by KUT
- Added: May 18, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
This week on War News Radio, “Peace News in Wartime”, we discuss the role of Morocco in the Arab Spring. Then, we learn about the process of establ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 30:01
Filmmaker Peter Nicks talks access, compassion, and letting the audience think for itself.
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 21:01
Complicated commercial development can have as many layers of financing as Turkish pastry has layers of phyllo.
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 28:31
Everybody talks jobs, but where do they really come from?
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 28:40
Learn more about the Civic Commons, a citizen engagement effort underway in Northeast Ohio.
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 28:34
Host Phalana Tiller talks with author Tom Rieger about his new book, Breaking the Fear Barrier. She also interviews Thomas Tighe, president and CEO...
- Added: Dec 09, 2011
- Length: 58:59
Werner Herzog on respect, justice, and the Culture of Death.
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 12:52
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 28:21
In another story KALW brought you the story of the so-called Chess Cinderella, Dyhemia Young. The foster child won a college scholarship at a prest...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 1
37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)
Bought by WMUU-LP, WTIP, KWIT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 26, 2011
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
One of California’s greatest assets is its natural environment. Nearly every landscape imaginable is within a day’s trip from here. To the east you...
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 05:14
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross and Scott Keller of McKinsey & Co. about management challenges across divers...
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 58:59
How people are finding the strength and situations
that get them through economic hard times.
Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 14
A generational discussion on the issues revolving around public trasportation
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 56:00
