Laura Starecheski

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  • Username: lauras
  • teacher/producer
  • Role: Producer Group Staff

Recent Pieces from Laura Starecheski

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Leadership from the Bottom Up: A Black History Month Special (53:53)
From: Al Letson

Usually during Black History Month, we remember Civil Rights icons and reflect on their legacy. But over the past couple of years, SOTRU has met a new generation of African ...
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Coming Home: Stories of Veterans Returning from War (53:53)
From: Al Letson

More than two million veterans have come home so far from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For returning veterans, reintegrating into society can be a challenge. How do you ...
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Jacksonville, FL: Grinding the Gears (53:53)
From: Al Letson

Jacksonville, Florida, is a lot of things: a military town. A church town. A beach town. And it can be all those things because Jacksonville is the largest city in the whole ...
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Tucson, AZ: Borderlands (53:52)
From: Al Letson

Tucson sits in the borderlands, the desert landscape where America and Mexico meet. This place is crisscrossed by boundaries, visible and invisible—from the US border wall ...
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Ozarks: Full Circle (53:53)
From: Al Letson

The Ozarks have long been an isolated part of the country. Steep mountains break up the landscape into hills and hollows, making each little town into its own microcosm in ...
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Vermont: The Small Town State (53:53)
From: Al Letson

Quaint storefronts along Main streets, covered bridges over clear streams, cows from dairy farms dotting green valleys: across the state, these are the iconic images of ...
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SOTRU Short: Kids Behind Bars (10:07)
From: Al Letson

When we were researching our Wyoming episode in the summer of 2011, we came across a striking statistic: Wyoming has the nation's second highest rate of juvenile ...
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Sacramento, CA: All Hands on Deck (53:53)
From: Al Letson

A company town, where the company is government. In a city where one in four households contain a government employee, the crippling state budget deficit, police layoffs, ...