Utica, NY: City with a Warm Heart
A couple of decades ago, Utica, New York, was dying, by even its residents diagnosis: a popular bumper sticker in the ‘90s read “Last One Out of Utica, Please Turn Out the Lights.” Once a bustling textile city perched on…
Los Angeles, CA: Home, Sweet Home
Los Angeles, Lala land, often thought of as the city of movies and money and fame. But that characterization doesn’t get at the heart and soul of this City of Angels. SOTRU will spend the episode telling stories of habitat…
Twin Cities, MN: World Within Two Cities
It isn’t exactly Lake Wobegon anymore… Once known as the home of Midwestern Lutherans and Scandanavian farmers, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are now wildly diverse. They have become cities of immigrants, from Tibetans to Somalis, Iraqis to…
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SOTRU Wins Edward R. Murrow Award for Second Year in a Row
We are thrilled to announce that, for the second year in a row, State of…
Interior Alaska: Frontier Community
Interior Alaska can be a forbidding place. The region is largely wilderness, covered with expansive…
The Sorting of America
The U.S. has been a country shaped by migration, dating back to the days of…
Salt Lake City, UT: Updating Tradition
When Mormon pioneers rolled into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they brought with them…
