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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Where does the first couple of Cali Ag get all its water?

    Depending on whom you ask, billionaire mega-farmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick are either sinners or saints.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 15, 2016 • 1 min read

    Depending on whom you ask, billionaire mega-farmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick are either sinners or saints. They are either two of the most progressive, philanthropically minded people in California, or they’re rapacious users of the state’s limited water supply who have used their political influence to collect more water for their crops than is used by every home in the entire city of Los Angeles. Or perhaps the Resnicks are all of the above.

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    Inside the $1B deal to detain Central American asylum seekers
    1. 0:30Trump proposes ideological test for immigrants
    2. 10:26Inside the no-bid deal to detain Central American asylum seekers
    3. 13:51Where does the first couple of Cali Ag get all its water?You’re reading this
    4. 17:29'Hard Knocks:' Behind the scenes at LA Rams' training camp
    5. 42:00Japan's obsession with LA, circa 1976, is back
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