Thanks for checking out our latest podcast episode. This story was produced by seventeen-year-old Alex Soto. Cougar Miller is your host. Please subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. We love reviews and comments! Sound effects were provided by Alex Soto and freesound.org. Thanks to Tucson musician Gabrielle Pietrangelo (with Sister Solace) for permission to use the music featured in this episode. All songs are in the public domain and were arranged and directed by Gabrielle Pietrangelo.

Sixteen-year-old Geronimo has a lot of fears, and his friends seem so tough. So he decides to ask them, "What is your greatest fear?"

Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is going to become a ghost town soon. So Paloma asks the experts: how worried, exactly, should she be about her desert home?

This story features interviews with Sharon Megdal, a scientist at the University of Arizona and the Director of The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center; Joaquin Murrieta-Salvidar, a cultural ecologist at Tucson Watershed Management, and James MacAdam, a supervisor at Tucson Water.

When Samantha asked her mom why so many people in her family have been incarcerated, her mom said it was "poor choices." But Sam wanted to know why. Why do people make bad choices? And does prison teach people to make good choices?

A shorter version of this story was selected as a winner in the 2019 New York Times Student Podcast Contest. See Sam's story in the NYT here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/learning/winners-of-our-second-annual-student-podcast-contest.html

Geronimo Sanchez is your host.

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*Note: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was published in 1904 and is in the public domain.

When Samantha asked her mom why so many people in her family have been incarcerated, her mom said it was "poor choices." But Sam wanted to know why. Why do people make bad choices? And does prison teach people to make good choices? This story was selected as a winner in the 2019 New York Times Student Podcast Contest. See Sam's story in the NYT here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/learning/winners-of-our-second-annual-student-podcast-contest.html

Geronimo Sanchez is your host.

A longer version of this story can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/user-564923358/my-incarcerated-family

To hear more stories like this one, subscribe to the City High Radio podcast, available on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.

*Note: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was published in 1904 and is in the public domain.

Geronimo has read that teenagers make bad decisions because their brains aren't fully developed yet. He wonders if that's really true, so he decides to ask his classmates about the most dangerous things they've ever done, and whether they told their parents.

Seventeen-year-old Sean doesn't consider himself a romantic guy, but he knows girls like romance, and he likes girls, so he sets out to figure out what romance really is.

Thanks to Rook1e, Daniel Johnston, and Jose Alfredo Jimenez for providing the music. Samantha Zazuete is your host.

To hear more stories from City High Radio, visit our PRX page at www.prx.org/group_accounts/54388-cityhighradio. Or, to learn more about our school, go to www.cityhighschool.org.

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Paloma used to love Christmas, but lately, she feels a little disenchanted. Christmas seems like it’s become all about stuff and stress. But when she asks her fellow classmates “What’s your favorite thing about Christmas?” their answers inspire her to bring some of magic of Christmas back to her family.

Thanks to Dan Lurch, Doctor Turtle, and the United States Marine Band for providing the music. Geronimo Sanchez is your host.

To hear more stories from City High Radio, visit our PRX page at www.prx.org/group_accounts/54388-cityhighradio. Or, to learn more about our school, go to www.cityhighschool.org.

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Sometimes it's hard for teenage boys and their mothers to see eye-to-eye. That's why, when Trent Good was a freshman, he decided to skip school and run away from home for the day. He wanted to do some thinking and decide his future for himself. In this month's episode, Trent interviews his mother about how she felt on that day. This story was selected by PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, as one of the best youth-produced stories of 2012. https://exchange.prx.org/playlists/285164 It also won an honorable mention from the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association's state-wide journalism contest.

Thanks to Andrew Jackson Jihad and to the Mountain Goats for giving us permission to use their music. Thanks also to Neutral Milk Hotel. Samantha Zazueta is your host.

To hear more stories from City High Radio, visit our PRX page at www.prx.org/group_accounts/54388-cityhighradio. Or, to learn more about our school, go to www.cityhighschool.org. Thanks for listening!

When you're a teenager, it's hard to understand how "the economy" has anything to do with your life. But when Makele's dad lost his job and their home was foreclosed on, it got personal. This story about the 2008 financial crisis won the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association’s highest honors, and was featured on Phoenix’s NPR station, KJZZ. Recently, Makele and her family were interviewed by Peter O’Dowd on NPR’s Here and Now. Check out this link to see how Makele is doing now: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/09/12/home-foreclosure-housing-crisis-white-family

Thanks to Radical Face and to Makele’s dad, Milo, for giving us permission to use their music. Sean Thomson is your host.

To hear more stories from City High Radio, visit our PRX page at www.prx.org/group_accounts/54388-cityhighradio. Or, to learn more about our school, go to www.cityhighschool.org. Thanks for listening!