Headlines From The Times - Colorado River in Crisis, Pt. 5: The Valley

California’s Imperial Valley has some of the lowest rainfall in the state, yet uses the largest allotment of Colorado River water. Why is such an arid part of the state an agricultural powerhouse?

Today, we look into how the region secured its rights. Read the full transcript here.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: L.A. Times water reporter Ian James

More reading:

In California’s Imperial Valley, farmers brace for a future with less Colorado River water

Colorado River in Crisis: A Times series on the Southwest’s shrinking water lifeline

California is isolated and alone in battle over Colorado River water cuts

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - 75 Years Since The Chicago Sun-Times First Hit Newsstands

The Sun-Times is celebrating its 75 years of informing Chicago-area readers this week. Since January 2022, it has been part of Chicago Public Media alongside WBEZ and Vocalo. Reset talks with Sun-Times staffers Neil Steinberg and Stefano Esposito about the paper’s past, present and future.

The Intelligence from The Economist - Bold eagle: America’s industrial evolution

As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent looks at the Biden administration’s audacious industrial plans. Russia’s media outlets have been relentlessly squeezed, so many have set up newsrooms in exile; we examine the rise of “offshore journalism”. And reflecting on the life of Gina Lollobrigida, a remarkable, irrepressible, impenitent Italian actress.


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The Best One Yet - BONUS #2 🍺 The Knight of Non-Alcoholic Beer: Bill Shufelt, Athletic Brewing Co-Founder & CEO

First, he was in finance. Then he got rejected by 100 investors. But now he’s raised $175M… and opened breweries on both coasts. We just popped open cans from the largest non-alcoholic brewery in the US. CEO Bill Shufelt and his co-founder pioneered a non-alcoholic beer you’d actually want to drink — and it now controls over 50% of the alcohol-free craft beer market.  Bill sat down with us, over a few of his own non-alcohol beers, to tell his story in our 2nd Interview Pod. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.3.23

Alabama

  • Senate committee assignments are in for AL's 2 senators
  • Covid emergency money for SNAP program to end by this March
  • Cold case in Tuscaloosa now linked to dead music teacher in New Mexico
  • Opelika Narcotics unit makes 10 arrests re: drugs and gambling
  • Montgomery police officer on admin leave for domestic violence charges
  • 23rd St. in Birmingham back open after film production on Thursday

National

  • 86 Democrats refuse to condemn socialism in US House resolution
  • WH economic adviser Brian Deese announces he is leaving
  • Republicans vote to not confirm Ilhan Omar to Foreign Affairs committee
  • 11th circuit court rules against a prohibition on "conversion" therapy
  • Cochrane Institute study says masks do very little to stop Covid

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Teapot Dome Scandal

In the early 1920s, what was considered to be the largest political scandal in American history became public.

Despite the enormous amount of attention given to it in the press at the time, both the scandal and the president that was attached to it, have both been largely forgotten.

Yet, the legacy of this scandal can still be found in the laws today, as well as in how the media and the public respond to political scandals.

Learn more about the Teapot Dome Scandal and how it affected the administration of President Warren G. Harding on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Amy S. Bruckman, “Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge” (Cambridge UP, 2022)

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them as sources of information? In other words, should we believe Wikipedia? 

Should You Believe Wikipedia?: Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge (Cambridge UP, 2022) explores what community is, what knowledge is, how the internet facilitates new kinds of community, and how knowledge is shaped through online collaboration and conversation. Along the way the author tackles issues such as how we represent ourselves online and how this shapes how we interact, why there is so much bad behavior online and what we can do about it. And the most important question of all: What can we as internet users and designers do to help the internet to bring out the best in us all?

Amy Bruckman is Regents’ Professor and Senior Associate Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on social computing, with interests in collaboration, social movements, content moderation, and internet research ethics. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM CHI Academy. Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab's Epistemology and Learning group in 1997, and a B.A. in physics from Harvard University in 1987.

Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature.

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Opening Arguments - OA687: Trump Sues Woodward, Gets Close to Making a Valid Legal Argument

A new record for him! Today Liz Dye has two stories for us. First, Trump has sued Bob Woodward for profiting off of his voice in his new book. Does he have a case? Well, almost assuredly not. But he happens to come close to a real argument, and you know, that's like really impressive! Then, Liz breaks down new news on Hunter Biden's laptop. It's still so confusing but Liz helps us make sense of it!