Sarah Jane Tribble is a journalist with Kaiser Health News who grew up an hour away from Fort Scott, Kan. Not even 20 years after the opening of a gleaming new hospital there, it closed. People in Fort Scott lost healthcare, workers lost jobs a

Chinese Adoptees | Prairie Public in North Dakota

Jan 26th, 2022 22m 47s

Asians make up just 3½ percent of the population in Fargo, N.D., and people of Chinese descent are a smaller slice of that. Annie Prafcke is a native of China adopted as an infant by a single white woman in Fargo. From an early age, Prafcke was

Seizing Freedom | Virginia Public Media

Jan 14th, 2022 22m 55s

The popular narrative about the Civil War is white men in the North freed enslaved people in the South. But a podcast from Virginia Public Media tells a deeper story. “Seizing Freedom,” which has just launched its second season, spotlights Blac

Port of Entry | KPBS San Diego

1 Jan 14th, 2022 28m 32s

Think about the U.S.-Mexico border. What comes to mind? Your thoughts are likely different than those from the people who produce the “Port of Entry” podcast from KPBS in San Diego. They think about the personal stories that connect both sides—

On Something | Colorado Public Radio

Jan 14th, 2022 23m 29s

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Since then, 16 more states have legalized it. But Ann Marie Awad, a producer with Colorado Public Radio and our guest today, noticed that le

Jolted | Vermont Public Radio

Jan 14th, 2022 26m 39s

Here's a stunning and sobering statistic: In 2021, there were 249 school shootings in the U.S. That’s more than twice the highest total in any previous year going back to the first tracking of school shootings in 1970. All of these incidents ma

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