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Feature Report - Homlessness and Mental Illness in Bloomington
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:50
  • Purchases: 1
Feature Report - Plotting Section 5 of I-69
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The development of Interstate 69 through Indiana is divided into six sections from the Indiana/Kentucky boarder up to Indianapolis. This week, the ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
Teens and Illegal Guns: Attitudes and Uses
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira, Y-Press
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
Teens and Illegal Guns: Access
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira
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
Teens and Illegal Guns: Overview
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
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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
Corruption in International Adoption
From: Tiny Spark
Series: Tiny Spark
Caption: Jennifer Hemsley with daughter, Pearl and Hazel (R), 2007, Credit: Jennifer Hemsley
Tiny Spark takes a look at a seemingly good idea - international adoption - and explores its unintended consequences: corruption, fraud and child t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
We Were All Incarcerated
From: Geoff Storm
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An examination of Steve Barnes' wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 1
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Mind on the Brain
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A personal look at Traumatic Brain Injury.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 4
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Major Neill Frankin of LEAP - Deborah Jacobs ACLU-NJ
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Major Neill Franklin, Credit: C. David Freitag
Deborah Jacobs of the ACLU-NJ on privacy issues with teenagers. Major Neill Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaks at the NORML ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio Special- New Jersey Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
Inauguration at Independence Mall in Philadelphia: Street Interviews, Ambient Sounds
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Philly, Independence Mall, Credit: Chris Goldstein
Interviews with members of the public attending the Presidential Inauguration on Philadelphia's Independence Mall.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 13:50
Washington Execution: The Mechanics of an Execution
From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution
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Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:58
Washington Execution: Capital Cases and the Law
From: KUOW
Series: State of Execution
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Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:41
Peace Talks Radio: 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three people who lost family members in the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. talk about turning their grief into action for peace. The...

Bought by KVNF, KRZA, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Affordable Housing Changes in central Pennsylvania
From: ComRadio
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Mobile home renters worry affordable housing options just don't exist for them in central Pennsylvania anymore

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Woman's Touch
From: Voices of Our World
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Getting an education does not only happen in school. What positive or negative messages did you receive from your family and community? How did the...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
9/11's Hidden Toll
From: WFUV
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Five years after the 9/11 attacks, the death toll among first responders is still climbing.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2006
  • Length: 05:27
Saving baby; another harrowing tale of escape and evacuation.
From: Laura Ziegler
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One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer g...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 04:20
I Wanna Die
From: Long Haul Productions
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Excerpts of New Orlean's Mayor Ray Nagin's 'rant' against the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina mixed with Jolie Holland's song "I Wanna D...

Bought by WMPG, KGLT, and KVNF


  • Added: Sep 04, 2005
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 3
Mississippi Civil Rights Murders, 41 Years Later
From: Voices of Our World
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With the upcomming re-trial of Reverend Edgar Ray Killen, we discuss American civil progress and setbacks with Marc Potok, director of the Intelli...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
Santa Fe Community Reacts to Beatings of Gay Men
From: Jim Williams
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Two gay men were beaten early Sunday morning in Santa Fe, New Mexico; one remains in critical condition; the community is reacting.

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2005
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 1
Movin' Out the Bricks
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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A year in the life of Catherine "Coco" Means, as she leaves her long-time home in a Chicago public housing development and moves to her first priva...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KGNU Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 8
PART 3: A Patroitic, Non-Questioning Population
From: Claes Andreasson
Series: Downwinder Diaries
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Downwinder talks about how her brother died from nuclear fallout

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, WYSO, and WMPG


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 4