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Valley Edition: April 13 - Fairmead; Nine Armenians; Daniel Ellsberg; High Speed Rail

Ezra David Romero
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Valley Public Radio

On this week's program Reporter Ezra David Romero visits the Central Valley community of Fairmead where dozens of private wells have gone dry.

Also on Valley Edition Reporter Jeffrey Hess looks at a program helping people find jobs along the future high speed rail corridor.

Later in the program, Valley Edition Host Joe Moore speaks with Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers in the 70s. Ellsberg  is the featured speaker at the 29th annual Charles W. Kegeley Memorial Lecture at  Cal State Bakersfield's Dore Theatre at 7 p.m. His presentation is titled "Why the United States Needs More Edward Snowdens."

Ending the program, Moore speaks with Leslie Avvazian who wrote the play Nine Armenians about three generations of Armenian-Americans. The play will appear at theFresno Art Museum on April 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. as well ast April 19 at 2:00 p.m. For more information call 559-435-4478.

 

Joe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. He has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
Ezra David Romero is an award-winning radio reporter and producer. His stories have run on Morning Edition, Morning Edition Saturday, Morning Edition Sunday, All Things Considered, Here & Now, The Salt, Latino USA, KQED, KALW, Harvest Public Radio, etc.
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