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On Valley Edition: Homeless; 3 Strikes Law; 'The Worst Hard Time'; Homegrown Book Club

This week on Valley Edition we discuss the issues of homelessness, prisons and a new book about the legacy of the Dust Bowl.

Valley Public Radio Reporter Rebecca Plevin tells the story of how two women evicted from a Fresno homeless encampment chose entirely different homes after eviction - one an eco-home and the other a field.

Also on the program Valley Edition Host Joe Moore speaks with San Francisco based reporter Michael Montgomery about his piece on California's three strikes sentencing law. 

Moore also speaks with journalist Timothy Egan about his book “The Worst Hard Time,” which won the 2006 American Book Award.  Egan will speak in Fresno on Wednesday morning, as part of the San Joaquin Valley Town Hall Lecture Series.

Ending the program, Moore and FM89 Reporter Rebecca Plevin discuss the next book in Valley Public Radio’s ‘Homegrown’ book club. ‘What You See In The Dark’ is authored by Dinuba native Manuel Munoz. We will discuss the book during Valley Edition on December 3. Plevin will speak with Munoz about his book. We encourage listeners to share their questions and comments about the novel.

You can join the discussion through Facebookor Twitter.

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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