Jul 16 Watch California’s ‘water cop’ urges residents to take drought seriously with mandatory restrictions By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch Could Brooklyn hipsters help save the middle class? By PBS News Hour Frozen ginger slushies, tea-based pro-biotic drinks, a bed bug-killing steam machine -- these are just a few of the locally-grown products coming out of Brooklyn’s burgeoning artisan economy. But as popular as these start-ups may be, are they generating more… Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch Costly copper: Scrap metal thieves put public in danger By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Dead and online: What happens to your digital estate when you die? By PBS News Hour There are nearly four billion registered e-mail accounts and more than one billion Facebook accounts worldwide. But what happens to all of that online information after we're gone? Entrepreneurs and legislative groups are trying to offer solutions and build awareness… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch Coaching parents on toddler talk to address low-income word gap By PBS News Hour By age four, toddlers in low-income families hear 30 million fewer words than those in high-income families, according to researchers. As a result, these children tend to have smaller vocabularies and fall behind in reading. Special correspondent John Tulenko of… Continue watching
Jul 10 Watch Graffiti artists take to the streets of Brazil to combat violence against women By PBS News Hour Brazilian street artists used the spotlight of the World Cup to highlight a problem close to home. Special correspondent Sophia Kruz of Detroit Public Television reports on a movement in Brazil to spread awareness of domestic violence through the art… Continue watching
Jul 09 Watch Why has Russia toned down its rhetoric on Ukraine? By PBS News Hour Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner joins Judy Woodruff to discuss recent victories of the Ukrainian military over pro-Russian separatists, the obstacles to reclaiming military control of the city of Donetsk and the chances that President Obama will impose further… Continue watching
Jul 08 Watch Why ‘Doctor Zhivago’ was dangerous By PBS News Hour When Boris Pasternak finished his novel “Dr. Zhivago” in 1956, Soviet authorities refused to publish the tale of an individual’s struggle amid the Russian Revolution. A new book, “The Zhivago Affair,” tells the story of how Pasternak’s novel came to… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Is GI Bill benefitting for-profit colleges instead of helping veterans? By PBS News Hour Veterans can receive the full cost of a college education under the GI Bill, but recently funds from the bill have flowed mostly to for-profit schools, even though veterans’ prospects are often not appreciably better after attending them. Aaron Glantz… Continue watching