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On Valley Edition: Calif. & Valley Politics; Oct. 1 & the Affordable Care Act; Spanspek Festival

http://spanspekfestival.com/

This week on Valley Editionwe take a look at issues that have an impact both in Central California and the rest of the state. Starting off the program host Joe Moore speaks with Fresno Bee Editorial Page Editor Bill McEwen about the state of politics in the region. 

Later in the program, our reporting team takes a look at the Affordable Care Act. Reporter Rebecca Plevin tells the story of a group of Californians eligible for the state's expanded Medi-Cal program. These young immigrants were undocumented until last summer when President Obama announced a new policy, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. 

In the same vein, Moore interviews California Health and Human Services Secretary Diana Dooley about what the Affordable Care Act means for Californians. 

Ending the program, Moore highlights a music and art festival that takes place in an unlikely place, Orosi, Calif. The Spanspek Music and Arts Festival will be held Friday Oct. 4.  

For more info visit - http://spanspekfestival.com/

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).
Rebecca Plevin was a reporter for Valley Public Radio from 2013-2014. Before joining the station, she was the community health reporter for Vida en el Valle, the McClatchy Company's bilingual newspaper in California's San Joaquin Valley. She earned the George F. Gruner Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism and the McClatchy President's Award for her work at Vida, as well as honors from the National Association of Hispanic Publications and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Plevin grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is also a fluent Spanish speaker, a certified yoga teacher, and an avid rock-climber.
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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