The Salt Lake Times Case Analysis

The State of Colorado has suffered from a water shortage in recent years; a difficult situation which is easily visible when viewing the quickly shortening length of the Colorado River. Lake Mead, for example, is roughly 130 feet lower than it once was, marked by the stained rock which towers above the current water level. “The river has become a perfect symbol of what happens when we ask too much of a limited resource: it disappears. In fact, the Colorado no longer regularly reaches the sea” (Zielinski, 2010). Legislation was implemented early on to address this issue, though the results were (perhaps not surprisingly) rather unanticipated, regarding

The Dred Scott case came at a very turbulent time in American history. It came

When a law enforcement officer or other public employee is accused of potentially criminal conduct, they may face three different kinds of interviews or interrogations. If an officer is interviewed as a criminal suspect, they have the absolute right to decline to answer any questions, or to insist that they have a lawyer of their choosing to attend the interview. The first is type is during a criminal investigation; the second is during a disciplinary investigation and finally during the course of civil litigation where there has been damages. During a criminal interview, there is no professional, ethical or moral duty to participate especially without the assistance of an attorney to represent the officer under investigation. It has come to a surprise that many experienced officers will waive their right to silence and give the investigators an audio recorded statement. Some of the inexperienced criminals do not make incriminating statements. The motive for cooperation is to avoid unfavorable publicity.

Yet, humans have limited control on natural events, so this only reinforces the importance of managing water wisely. Recently California’s government has begun to focus more on sustaining and restoring the water supply. Dale Kasler (2016) articulates in his article some of the steps they have decided to make to solve this serious issue. The government has made the following investments: “$415 million for watershed restoration and other environmental aid for Lake Tahoe; up to $335 million for two proposed reservoirs in California, including the Sites reservoir north of Sacramento; $880 million for flood-control projects on the American and Sacramento rivers in Sacramento; and $780 million for flood-control projects in West Sacramento” (para. 10). This could be the first step to restoring the water to California. But these

The agriculture industry lost around 1.7 billion dollars, due to not having the proper water allocations for the fields. On the west wide of the valley, half of their 600,000 acres of farmland went fallow, because they didn’t have enough water to farm them. And about 14,500 farm workers in the Central Valley lost their jobs. Without the proper water allocations, farmers will have to continue to pump ground water at extremely high costs, which will force people out of the industry and raise the price of the products produced by the those who can stay in. The impact of the fight over water ripples far beyond those just in agriculture, it affects all of

“For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we are rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it,” said Marcus Samuelsson. According to the Des Moines Register, “The federal Environmental Protection Agency is adding $12.3 million to a loan fund that will help pay for drinking water systems or improve efficiency.” There are obvious water quality issues in Iowa, and people around the state including farmers and the governor are trying to help.

Texas, with its abundances of natural resources, is facing a new demon, one that doesn’t even seem possible, a shortage of water. Water, without it nothing can survive. Texas is the second largest state for landmass in the nation and ninth for water square miles. Within the borders of Texas are more than 100 lakes, 14 major rivers, and 23 aquifers, so why has water become such an important issue for the state? Politicians and conservationists all agree that without a new working water plan, the state could be facing one of the most damaging environmental disasters they have ever seen. The issues that shape the states positions are population growth, current drought conditions, and who actually owns the water.

On March 27, 2014, Wade Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle reported “The Water Revolution California needs.” California is having a severe drought. Wade Graham tells his readers that California is in a serious water crisis. The state of California needs to make strict changes to how water is being distributed amongst farmers and residents. Before all of California’s ecological system is destroyed. Wade Graham believes that water should be priced higher; that way people aren’t wasting water. Water is a limited resource that should never be wasted, and is probably California’s most valuable resource. Unfortunately, many people waste water; instead of conserve water especially when we live in the state of California where we are subject to

So García and four others came to the Supreme Court case hearing: Chris Alderete and James de Anda of the American G.I. Forum and John J. Herrera and Carlos Cadena from the League of United Latin American Citizens. The Supreme Court heard the Hernández V. The State of Texas case in 1954. There was two sides for this case, Hernández’ and The State of Texas. García fought for Hernández and argued that the 14th amendment not only protected the rights of races like white and black but also class. He said that those citizens in the jury selection process were being discrediting and excluding people based on class and that’s why there hasn’t been a Mexican-American citizen on a Texas jury in over 25 years. This affected all the minorities and lower classes especially Mexican-Americans and made it unfair to them in court cases. On the other hand The State of Texas said that the 14th amendment only protected the rights of whites and blacks and that Mexican-Americans fall under the white class. Furthermore, The State of Texas verified that no Mexican-American had served on the jury in over 25 years but proposed that it was just a coincidence and not because of discrimination. I believe The State of Texas was worried about having minorities and separate classes in juries because they might not make the same decisions that the average white man would make. Thus Texas was hesitant to promote the electing of any Mexican-American to a jury

The options we have available to alleviate this situation are few. One option, considered by many is simply to do nothing. This is advanced by many who believe that since we can treat the water we should not be placing any more burden upon our farmers. Most Republicans in the state legislature believe this is the best idea, because it is better to have the Des Moines Water Works to have to pay to fix the water than to place costly measure upon farmers and hurt out economy. However, this option does not fix our increasingly polluted water, and does not help fix the increasing Dead Zone.

Taking it back a bit- Unbeknownst to most residents; for well over ten years now, the water pipe infrastructure North of 50 has been leaking an upwards of 1.1 BILLION gallons of water ANNUALLY. (Roughly 3,500 Acre Square Feet- which ironically is exactly what’s needed to supply South of 50) So, in violation of Measure W. City leaders struck a deal with SO50 landowners charging them $90,000,000 to fix North of 50 pipe only to allocate the “saved” water South of 50 (saving them $260,000,000 by not requiring a dedicated water source as initially required) The options could have been to sell this “saved” water (which shouldn’t be leaking in the first place) for fair market value or conserve it, either way not giving away the farm to SO50 landowners at the expense of Folsom residents. REQUIRING them to comply with Measure W as voted and approved on by Folsom residents. Folsom’s water use is less that the actual evaporation which occurs daily on Folsom lake and I’m certain the drought will end at some point. The bigger issue is the lack of transparency and outside influenced deals our elected officials are making, selling Folsom

Art Cullen, 59, is co-owner of The Storm Lake Times and received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing that challenged big corporate agriculture businesses in a small town in Iowa. In “Wrong Assumptions”, Art Cullen claims that Gov. Terry Branstad $4.7 billion plan to promote water quality in Iowa is totally unnecessary and also believes that skimming sales taxes from school is just the government wasting valuable money that could be used for somewhere else. Cullen supports his claim that Gov. Terry Branstad plan isn’t the best option by explaining that the actually plan would actually cost “more like 15 billion when you factor in federal and private cost-shares - to clean up our nitrate problem” (Cullen). He also explain a idea in

Economists are often asked to prepare reports with objective analyses balancing the cost and potential damage to the water sources against economic benefits to the local and national communities. These requests for analysis can provide interesting ethical questions for those

You could argue that the water is fine, it will raise the unemployment rate, and the raise in gas prices will be terrible. The truth is that we are experiencing a drought in the United States

Salt Lake City, June 2014, a child went missing resulting in a search by local police. An officer enters the fenced back yard of a residence only to be confronted by the owners Weimaraner Geist, the officer stated that he felt threatened and shot the dog in the head. The missing child had difficulty communicating and the officers felt he would not respond if they called out his name resulting in the search of owner Kendall’s back yard. The officer stated that no one responded to him when he went to the front door and felt it necessary to check the backyard. The child was later found in his home hiding. An investigation into the incident is being conducted by Internal Affairs. Local attorney Robert Sykes stated “it’s obvious the officer