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Rig the System – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

The law isn’t always black and white. Let’s say your neighbor wants to drill for oil in their backyard. It could be loud and it might even pollute the groundwater. You’re worried. Your neighbor feels…

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Rig the System – Part 2: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • April 19, 2016

“I never felt more like a hooker at a bus station than when I ran for the Ohio State Supreme Court.”    — Paul Pfeifer, Associate Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court For many people living…

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Sterilized – Transcript

by Jess Engebretson

  • March 22, 2016

The law can be a tool for justice, and injustice. Starting in 1907, legislators in dozens of states passed laws that made it legal to forcibly sterilize people considered by some doctors and scientists to…

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Revolution in a Cornfield – Part 1: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court

by Ashley Cleek

  • March 8, 2016

Kansas state legislators are locked in a balance-of-power fight with justices on the Kansas Supreme Court over how much of the state’s diminishing tax revenue to spend on educating children. “For me, there’s another decision…

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Revolution in a Cornfield – Transcript

by Ashley Cleek

  • March 8, 2016

It’s probably been awhile since you were in first grade. But some things haven’t changed too much. AMBI MONTINI’S CLASS This is Mrs Montini’s class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas. Seventeen…

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Harris County USA

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • February 23, 2016

“Lowest voter participation in the nation. Lowest voter registration in the nation. We dug a deep deep hole in Texas. And what we’ve gotta do is stop digging.” -Leland Beatty              Voting is a…

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Harris County – Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • February 23, 2016

Voting is a right and it’s some states it’s pretty easy to do. You register, and then you go to the polling place and mark your ballot. But in more than half the states, laws…

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Juggalos

by Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle

  • February 9, 2016
Photo by Jared eberhardt

Juggalos are fans of violent music called horror core rap performed by the band, Insane Clown Posse.  Fans paint their faces to look like clowns and get tattoos with the image of a man running with…

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UnDACAmented Transcript

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • January 30, 2016

It’s been 20 years since Congress has passed comprehensive immigration reform in the US. So, in 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo granting undocumented immigrants who came…

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UnDACAmented

by Jonathan Hirsch

  • January 26, 2016

“And they just told me to sign here and here. Well I signed. And I guess I signed for my deportation.” – Luis Luis crossed the border into the US when he was 8 years…

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