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Environment
What teachers want: largest ever survey finds out
The Takeaway
March 04, 2010
The largest-ever survey of American teachers was released yesterday. Forty thousand teachers answered questions on how to fix schools and what they need to do a better job.
Arts, Culture & Media
Los Angeles-based lawyer exposes Iranian bands
The World
March 16, 2011
Cyrus Farivar profiles Iranian-American attorney Kia Kamran in Los Angeles who is behind some of the new Iranian-American bands on the music scene in LA and beyond.
Arts, Culture & Media
Philip Levine named as new Poet Laureate
The Takeaway
August 15, 2011
Last week, the Library of Congress named Philip Levine as the next poet laureate, succeeding W.S. Merwin. Levine joins us from his home in Fresno, California and talks about his reputation as a working class poet.
Talking With New Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Part Two
The Takeaway
August 16, 2011
Arts, Culture & Media
Miami Poem Depot
Studio 360
April 27, 2010
In Miami, poets create on-demand verses for passers-by on manual typewriters -- the project is called the "Poem Depot."
Environment
How groundwater is saving California farmers during drought
America Abroad
July 03, 2014
Business, Economics and Jobs
High-speed rail could transform Fresno’s poorest neighborhood. Will Trump get on the train?
The Center for Public Integrity
October 15, 2018
In Fresno, California, a promised but stalled high-speed rail connection has been lauded as a panacea for the region's economic troubles. But some residents fear the imperiled project is just another false promise
Arts, Culture & Media
Photos: Welcome to Tlaxiaco, the small Mexican city where 'Roma' star Yalitza Aparicio grew up
The World
February 20, 2019
Tlaxiaco is a small Mexican city that's in the spotlight for being the hometown of Yalitza Aparicio, the Oscar-nominated star of “Roma.” It’s also home to a rare binational radio program that airs both in Fresno, California, and Tlaxiaco, connecting residents to family members who have migrated north.
Arts, Culture & Media
Radio waves connect Mexicans in remote Tlaxiaco with family in the US
The World
February 22, 2019
Tlaxiaco has been inundated with international attention in recent months because it’s the hometown of Yalitza Aparicio, the star of the movie Roma, who emerged from obscurity to become an Oscar nominee. But Tlaxiaco is already well known in Fresno, California, and other cities throughout the US because of decades of migration from this region of Mexico. Those ties are fortified by La Hora Mixteca, or The Mixtec Hour, a bi-national radio program.
Business, Economics and Jobs
These caregivers work in conditions ‘akin to modern-day slavery.’ In California, wage theft is ‘rampant.’
Reveal
May 22, 2019
Inspection records available online show no indication that licensing officials considered debtors’ outstanding wage theft judgments when they visited the facilities in recent months, Reveal found.