PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Frontline: The Pension Gamble investigates the role of state governments and Wall Street in driving America’s public pensions into a multi-trillion-dollar hole. Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith, and Nick Verbitsky go inside the volatile fight over pensions playing out in Kentucky, and examine the broader consequences for teachers, police, firefighters and other public employees everywhere.
Glaciers of the Winds is a one-hour documentary on the scientific exploration and retreat of the glaciers in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. WyomingPBS will look at the big picture of how receding alpine glaciers will affect the ecosystem, municipalities, farmers, and ranchers downstream. SDPB2: Thursday, January 24, 8pm (7 MT)
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Learn. Dream. Grow.
Photo: Jeremy M. Lange
Photo: Thirteen.org
SDPB2: Wednesday, January 9, 8pm (7 MT)
Photo: racingtherez.com
Photo: pbs.org
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Raising Bertie Set in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in eastern North Carolina, Raising Bertie takes audiences deep into the emotional lives of three boys – Reginald “Junior” Askew, David “Bud” Perry, and Davonte “Dada” Harrell – over six-years as they come of age. SDPB2: Sunday, January 20, 9pm (8 MT)
Pyne Point In Camden, NJ, America’s poorest and most dangerous city, the crack of a bat and the laughter of children for a moment replace the sounds of gunfire and the calls of drug dealers. Between a set of drug corridors known as Heroin Highway, exconvicts are teaching the young men and women of the North Camden Little League to navigate the hazards of the drug trade in order to play baseball. SDPB2: Tuesday, January 22, 7 & 11pm (6 & 10 MT) Saturday, January 26, 9pm (8 MT)
