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Peter O'Dowd @odowdpeter

Arizona-based senior editor, reporter, and guest host @HereandNow a co-production of @WBUR and @NPR.

Joined July 2010
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I'm coming out of Twitter retirement (X?) to say, thank you @crowmedicine & Ketch Secor for spending some time with us.
Old Crow Medicine Show@crowmedicine
31 Aug 2023
Ketch got the opportunity to talk with @odowdpeter & @WBUR about 25 years of #OCMS & #Jubilee....enjoy! wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/08/…
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We need news that makes us smile. Thanks for offering up some slow-mo joy.
Arizona Game & Fish@azgfd
7 Apr 2023
🐢 A big thanks to @odowdpeter & @NPR's @hereandnow for visiting our wildlife center to meet the team & help spread the word about the adoptable tortoises who need forever homes! Great story - don't miss the part about Thanos, the doggiest tortoise 😆 vpm.org/npr-news/2023-04-03/…
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Cool to see it from that perspective. Always admired that church as I walked underneath the steeple.
Dorchester Reporter@DotNews
5 Apr 2023
Historic steeple taken down for repairs on Second Church in Codman Sq. #Dorchester dotnews.com/2023/historic-st…
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OK, a few things: 1. Congrats! Tortie is a peach. 2. Ugh. How many times did I regret not asking if it was Tortie with an "i-e" or a "y"? 3. So many reasons to be in the news. 🤣
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When all the beauty around us is gone, at least we’ll still have these screens to sustain us. “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.” nytimes.com/2023/03/25/opini…

Opinion | I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake (Published 2023)

The Latter-day Saints church has the moral authority and political sway to save the Great Salt Lake.

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Today’s @hereandnow co-host is hard at work. @deepafern she’s got some good ideas for the politics roundtable. (Yes, my studio is basically in the bathroom.)
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Alaska has Fat Bear Week. Can Arizona and @azgfd please start Slow Tortoise Week? Here's one vote for 8 yr old Shelly! 🐢
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Jimmy Jenkins@JimmyJenkins
16 Mar 2023
NEW: Bombshell internal investigation conducted by Arizona's new prisons director reveals "State is in no position to conduct an execution" azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Arizona lacks knowledge and expertise to conduct execution, governor and prisons chief say

No records exist from the previous administration on where Arizona’s death penalty drugs came from or who prepared them, prisons director said.

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I'll never get enough of this video. Two powerful dudes remembering what it's like to be in middle school. (Also, why don't more people do this to members of Congress?) washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Teamsters president calls GOP senator a ‘greedy CEO’ in heated exchange

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and Teamsters leader Sean O’Brien verbally attacked each other in a Senate hearing focused on the right of workers to organize unions.

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12 Mar 2023
Brief thread about...snow. As of this weekend, the Southern Sierra now appears to have largest snowpack in recorded history (as measured by snow water equivalent, or SWE). Not just for the calendar date, but for *any* date! #CAwx #CAwater [1/n]
SWE time series trace from DWR for the major California Sierra basins. The Southern Sierra trace depicts an all-time record-high snow water equivalent.

ALT SWE time series trace from DWR for the major California Sierra basins. The Southern Sierra trace depicts an all-time record-high snow water equivalent.

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Eyder Peralta@eyderp
11 Mar 2023
Amid a lot of despair in Matamoros, here’s a scene of jubilation. At the big migrant camp, every morning everyone gets on their cellphones for a chance at a appointment to cross the border to the USA. Today, a Venezuelan family that’s been roaming for 5 years got their chance.
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Eric Marrapodi@EricMarrapodi
9 Mar 2023
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NPR's Michel Martin heads to ‘Morning Edition’ with a focus on ‘the stories that we don’t want to...

As the veteran journalist prepares to host the flagship morning show, she reflects on how journalism has evolved on everything from how it covers racism to how it treats mothers.

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Two saguaros grow in my front yard. I'd say they are my prized possessions but they don't belong to me. Who am I to touch them? 1/ azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Controversial removal of saguaro from golf course highlights cactus' revered status

The removal of a saguaro by landscapers was caught on video at a golf course in Marana.

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When one lost an arm in a storm it was too swollen and heavy to move. 2/
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Soon they will blossom and the bats will come. It will still stand here when you're gone - I hope.
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I don't care what it was for. How could they do this?
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I’m 41, and lately there’s been a heart monitor glued to my chest. Which could mean something — or not. I took the day off (you should try it!) and went into this holy desert alone.
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I spent the day scrambling over boulders, stopping to toss logs into the current, like a little boy, trying to guess where they would go. I slapped the mud with my bare hands. What a satisfying thud it makes! I ate lunch with a lizard on the banks of an ephemeral river.
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…and occasionally, alone with the silence of this great place, I felt the pulse of my heart beating against my chest.
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