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On Valley Edition: Valley Fever in Prisons; Valley Politics; Shakespeare In The Park; Karen Marguth

Ezra Romero
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Valley Public Radio

On this weeks show, Valley Public Radio's Rebecca Plevin reportsthat within 90 days all inmates at risk of catching valley fever in Central California prisons must be relocated. Also on Valley Edition, host Joe Moore chats with Fresno Bee Editorial Page Editor BillMcEwen about local and state politics. Moore also interviews the executive producer of Fresno's Woodward Shakespeare Festival about summer shows. 

Ending the program local musician Karen Marguth talks about her current success as a jazz musician. She performs two songs from her latest CD. 

Guests on this week's program

Valley Fever - Rebecca Plevin, Valley Public Radio 

Valley Politics - ​​Bill McEwen, The Fresno Bee

Shakespeare in the Park - Greg Taber, Executive Producer 

Music - ​​Karen Marguth,Musician & Teacher 

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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