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On Valley Edition: Particulate Pollution; TBI Football Policy; Valley Education; Peter Buffett

C. Taylor Crothers

This week on Valley Edition, Rebecca Plevin reports on the California Air Resources Board's approval of a plan intended to bring the Valley's particulate pollution into compliance with federal standards. But residents and health advocates expressed concern that the plan doesn't act quickly enough to protect public health.

In other Valley news, 89.3’s Ezra Romero explores the measures Fresno schools are taking to stop head trauma caused by football among the city’s youth. With the Super Bowl just around the corner the topic of terminal brain injuries from football has become a concern across the nation, especially with head injuries making the news. Jim Crichlow, commissioner with the CIF Central Section, and Dr. Robert Cantu, co-director of the Center of Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, join the conversation.

In the second segment of this week’s Valley Edition we speak with Charles Manock, a Bullard High School parent and member of Bullard Pride, about the reasons why the Bullard High community is rallying to demand changes to schools in the area. The question we pose is whether the issues at hand are Bullard High School centric or a problem that all Valley schools are facing.

We close our program with an interview with Emmy Award-winning musician Peter Buffett. For more than 

  30 years Buffett has entertained around the nation and globe. Buffett plans to bring the message of his book, “Life Is What You Make It,” alive in a musical event titled “Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation with Peter Buffett.” In our conversation with Buffet he comments on life under his famous father – billionaire investor Warren Buffett, how he began his career and what to expect in the upcoming show.

Show info: Life is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation with Peter Buffett”, February 2, 6:30 p.m., Fresno City College Old Administration Building Auditorium, Tickets: $100 – orchestral level; $65 balcony; $45 – general admission. For tickets visit http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/concert.html.

Juanita Stevenson has lived and worked in Fresno for the past 24 years. She is perhaps best known to Valley residents as a longtime reporter and news anchor with local television station ABC30, and has also worked at stations KJWL, KYNO and ValleyPBS. She is the recipient of the 2001 Associated Press Award for Best Reporting, and the 1997 Radio & Television News Directors Association Regional Edward R. Murrow award for Best Reporting.
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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