This week on Valley Edition Reporter Jeffrey Hess reports on how Fresno is leveraging big data to improve city functions. Later, Reporter Ezra David Romero goes on a Central Valley tour to find the ugly food that'll be found in a CSA-style home delivered box.
Also on the show, VE Host Joe Moore speaks with Nathaniel Johnson of Grist about his latest Op-Ed in the LA Times saying it's time for the state to move beyond the blame game in California's drought.
Ending the program Moore speaks with Comedian Paula Poundstone is a regular guest on NPR's news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me. Now local audiences can see her perform live on stage at Fresno's historic Tower Theatre on Saturday May 30th. She joined us on Valley Edition to talk about her career, her housekeeper and her kindergarten teacher.