Photo by Hilary Stohs-Krause
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO – Lying on sidewalks in Whiteclay, passed out against storefronts day and night, are some Native Americans who come here every day to drink. The town has just one central road, a grocery, a couple of abandoned buildings and four liquor stores. Each year, those four stores sell what amounts to 4 million cans of beer.
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO – Pieces of twisted metal and scrap wood left behind by a massive tornado that tore through Joplin, Mo., are now sitting in a gallery in Kansas City. The sculptures and paintings from the wreckage are to be sold at auction Saturday.
The Theye children’s separation from their mother illustrates the brokenness of Nebraska’s child welfare system. Photo by Robyn Murray.
KVNO NEWS – The child welfare system in Nebraska is incredibly complex. But for the families in the system, it’s incredibly personal. In part one of our series: Child Welfare: Navigating a Fractured System, we examine why child welfare in the state has been so notoriously splintered, and how some families feel lost in it.
MEDILL REPORTS CHICAGO – On a late afternoon in Altgeld Gardens, the neighborhood is quiet and still.
Snow-packed sidewalks muffle the air as one of Chicago’s major snowstorms of the season gets underway. The snow keeps falling as students enter a classroom at Larry Hawkins, a charter school that is the only high school in this Far South Side community. Altgeld Gardens is a sprawling public housing complex – hemmed in by the polluted Calumet River and a sewage treatment plant, in which the average income is less than $10,000 per year.
Robyn Murray 