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Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, May 1, 2021. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
Regular readers will not be surprised when I say this: At best, today’s Republican Party is a dwindling reactionary faction bereft of workable ideas; at worst, it is a nationalist, race-baiting, Trumpist sect that threatens American democracy. Evidence for the sorry and dangerous state of what was the Party of Lincoln abounds in California and Washington.
(Before I go any further, let me say that everything the GOP is doing is legal, but that’s a remarkably low bar when the topic is public service.)
California has entered another drought. But depending on who you ask, the last one may have never really ended.
However, some growers say they are now facing a convergence of forces that is all but insurmountable a seemingly endless loop of hot, dry weather, new environmental protections and cutbacks in water allotments.
John Guthrie pumps water from a 3,000-gallon cistern into a water trailer to haul back to his ranch’s headquarters in Porterville, Calif. Guthrie will use the water for dust control at the corals.
(Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)
“I’m proud of our family’s history in this part of the state,” said John Guthrie, president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. “If not for that, I would seriously consider bowing out of this business.”