Yosemite Radio Updates
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An Update on the Inevitability of Change in Society
Tales From the MoJo Road âBy Glynn Wilson â COULTERVILLE, Calif. â Man have we seen changes come in our time or what? As I was reading The New York Times on Thursday morning the last day of April, 2026, and sharing some headlines on Facebook, I was reading another long screed about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence…
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Gold Rush Motion Picture About to Film in Northern California
Staff Report – A major motion picture about the California Gold Rush is about to start filming in Northern California. An open casting call over the weekend for âGold Mountain,â a Gold Rush-era film directed by Ang Lee, pulled a massive crowd in Sacramento. Casting director Sarah Kliban said the line stretched down the block…
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Seven Tribes Win the Right to Gather Plants Inside Yosemite National Park
Staff Report – Seven tribes with deep roots in Yosemite Valley are one step closer to reclaiming a practice that predates the park itself, gathering plants from within the boundaries of Yosemite National Park. An Environmental Assessment allowing members of seven federally recognized tribes to gather plants and plant parts within park boundaries for traditional…
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Yosemite Radio Now Has a Facebook Page to Follow News and Music Updates
The non-profit Yosemite Radio now has a Facebook business page where you can follow our news and music updates. Click on the link to see and follow here: Facebook/YosemiteRadio.Org
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California Billionaire Tax A Step Closer to Making the November Ballot
Health care workers and other supporters with the Billionaire Tax Now coalition hold placards during a media briefing in Los Angeles on April 27, 2026. If passed by voters, the 5% tax on Californiaâs billionaires would go toward funding health care. But opponents are preparing a poison-pill measure designed to kill it. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP…
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Priced Out of Water: Rising Rates in the American West Are Forcing Seniors From Their Homes
By Art Inverness – Staff Writer – COULTERVILLE, Calif. â In the American West, water has long been scarce. Whatâs new is the price. Across California, Arizona, Nevada and beyond, a collision of drought, climate change and aging infrastructure is driving water bills sharply upward â pushing some of the regionâs most vulnerable residents, particularly…
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On the Subject of Small Town News
Tales From the MoJo Road âBy Glynn Wilson â COULTERVILLE, Calif. â So in the interest of being âhonestâ and âunmercifulâ as a writer â the sage advice to a young rock journalist from Philip Seymour Hoffman as Cream magazine editor Lester Bangs in the film âAlmost Famousâ â let me just say here that this is not…
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Banderitas Days Brings Vietnam Veterans Traveling Wall to Coulterville for a Memorial Day Weekend of Remembrance
By Art Inverness – Staff Writer – Photos by Al Golub COULTERVILLE, Calif. â Over Memorial Day weekend, the quiet Sierra foothill town of Coulterville will once again become a gathering place for remembrance, music and community as Banderitas Days returns with a powerful centerpiece: the Vietnam Veterans Traveling Memorial Wall. Set against the historic…
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Meeting Canceled Saturday April 25 on Proposed Mariposa County Water and Sewer Rate Hikes
Staff Report – There a proposal from Mariposa County that could raise water and sewer rates in Coulterville and sewer rates in Don Pedro. We are looking into the facts of the situation for a news report to come soon. There was to be a brief presentation on the county’s proposed water and sewer rate…
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California Marks Earth Day With Plan to Open Three New State Parks
Staff Report – The great Golden State of California marked Earth Day on Wednesday by announcing a plan to open three new state parks and expand several others, a move officials say represents the largest growth of the state parks system in decades. The proposed parks are Feather River in Yuba County, San Joaquin River…
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It’s Earth Day, and California Just Experienced its Hottest, Driest March in History
By Glynn Wilson – It’s Earth Day on April 22, 2026, 56 years after the first Earth Day in 1970. Much progress was made in preserving the Earth’s environment in that half a century. But it seems like for every two steps we take forward, we fall one step back as American politics sometimes gets…
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Firefighters Issue Open Letter Opposing Federal Plan to End the âRoadless Ruleâ in National Forests
Staff Report â EUGENE, Ore.â About 120 current and former wildland firefighters issued an open letter Tuesday calling on members of Congress to oppose the Trump administrationâs proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in National Forests. The rollback of the âRoadless Ruleâ would remove protections across 45 million acres of national forestlands, opening…