Peter O'Dowd
@odowdpeter
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Arizona-based senior editor, reporter, and guest host @HereandNow a co-production of @WBUR and @NPR.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Joined July 2010
I'm coming out of Twitter retirement (X?) to say, thank you @crowmedicine & Ketch Secor for spending some time with us.
Ketch got the opportunity to talk with @odowdpeter & @WBUR about 25 years of #OCMS & #Jubilee....enjoy! https://t.co/Qvvf0BIMjR
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We need news that makes us smile. Thanks for offering up some slow-mo joy.
🐢 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 😆 https://t.co/WX3pa8q83U
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Cool to see it from that perspective. Always admired that church as I walked underneath the steeple.
Historic steeple taken down for repairs on Second Church in Codman Sq. #Dorchester
https://t.co/lwY63Dd2GR
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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
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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NEW: Bombshell internal investigation conducted by Arizona's new prisons director reveals "State is in no position to conduct an execution" https://t.co/oOzoV6KCFH
azcentral.com
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?) https://t.co/TRpBK3Ww4o
washingtonpost.com
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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5 years.
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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Soon they will blossom and the bats will come. It will still stand here when you're gone - I hope.
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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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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/ https://t.co/50JjAtA6Er
azcentral.com
The removal of a saguaro by landscapers was caught on video at a golf course in Marana.
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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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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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The spring rains have swelled the Agua Fria, but in the next season the sun will steal this water away. This place won’t look the same. The cottonwoods will draw their life from what remains below the ground. The beauty and the dangers of the desert change in an instant.
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It surprises some to see the desert pulsing with life. Not that I needed this reminder, but people lived here long before we came to ruin it. In this spot, time and geology make you feel magically insignificant.
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