Thanks, Michael, I appreciate your kind words! I’m thinking about what directions to take Destabilized in 2023 and I’m curious: what did you particularly like about this edition? And, more generally, what tends to distinguish the ones you like more from the ones you like less? Thanks for sharing (if you’re up for it) and happy holidays!
I absolutely loved the deep dive on the water crisis here out west. I didn't like the number of tweets not because they weren't interesting- each and every one was well chosen, but because the number of them on my Android smartphone forced me to click on a "expand to see full message" which reformats the page and makes it harder to read and comment on. I liked the questions you posed and they were the same ones bothering me. Where does the fed control end and the states' begin? I loved the concept of defensive water policy. Can Colorado, for example, sequester all of the water flowing through it? So who resupplies the upper basin reservoirs? Here in Oregon there are a huge numbers of issues around the Klamath water with all manner of competing claims. It's a very timely issue now. My uncle Walter Turnbull who was the AG of post war Guam I believe, when he heard I was going to law school, suggested that I focus on a career in riparian law,. I didn't get a JD and chose another career, but given the destabilization of the water allocation system, my putative Denver law firm would have had no lack of clients.
Thanks, Michael, this is really great feedback! I appreciate your clarity and candor. I worked for Senator Feinstein for a short stretch in my mid-20s and her CoS at the time was an older guy whose original expertise was in California water resources. I have a vague memory of him briefly describing some of the complexity around competing claims, conflicting law, jurisdictional issues, etc. I expect the next 50 years in the West will be quite rocky as states with growing populations (for now) fight over shrinking quantities of water. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
Well I looked up my uncle Walter and he wasn't the AG in post WWII Guam. He was the Assistant AG. He retired to San Diego. Congrats for working with Senator Weinstein and her CoS. Our backyard here has two houses whose back decks come up against our fence line and one of them housed the CoS for our Governor. It was fun to see the Governor kick back when she visited Pat:s house and the get-together spilled out on to the deck.
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Thanks, Michael, I appreciate your kind words! I’m thinking about what directions to take Destabilized in 2023 and I’m curious: what did you particularly like about this edition? And, more generally, what tends to distinguish the ones you like more from the ones you like less? Thanks for sharing (if you’re up for it) and happy holidays!
I absolutely loved the deep dive on the water crisis here out west. I didn't like the number of tweets not because they weren't interesting- each and every one was well chosen, but because the number of them on my Android smartphone forced me to click on a "expand to see full message" which reformats the page and makes it harder to read and comment on. I liked the questions you posed and they were the same ones bothering me. Where does the fed control end and the states' begin? I loved the concept of defensive water policy. Can Colorado, for example, sequester all of the water flowing through it? So who resupplies the upper basin reservoirs? Here in Oregon there are a huge numbers of issues around the Klamath water with all manner of competing claims. It's a very timely issue now. My uncle Walter Turnbull who was the AG of post war Guam I believe, when he heard I was going to law school, suggested that I focus on a career in riparian law,. I didn't get a JD and chose another career, but given the destabilization of the water allocation system, my putative Denver law firm would have had no lack of clients.
Thanks, Michael, this is really great feedback! I appreciate your clarity and candor. I worked for Senator Feinstein for a short stretch in my mid-20s and her CoS at the time was an older guy whose original expertise was in California water resources. I have a vague memory of him briefly describing some of the complexity around competing claims, conflicting law, jurisdictional issues, etc. I expect the next 50 years in the West will be quite rocky as states with growing populations (for now) fight over shrinking quantities of water. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
Well I looked up my uncle Walter and he wasn't the AG in post WWII Guam. He was the Assistant AG. He retired to San Diego. Congrats for working with Senator Weinstein and her CoS. Our backyard here has two houses whose back decks come up against our fence line and one of them housed the CoS for our Governor. It was fun to see the Governor kick back when she visited Pat:s house and the get-together spilled out on to the deck.