Yosemite Radio Updates
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Yosemite Arts and Crafts Artists Reception Saturday, Sept. 19
Staff Report – There will be a new artists show and party on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 6-8 p.m. at 5014 Main Street in Coulterville, California. Come one, come all.
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Northern California Residents Could See Power Cuts Due to Fire Risk
Staff Report – Residents across the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Valley are bracing for possible shutoffs this weekend due to high winds and dry conditions. Large areas of Northern California could have their electricity turned off over the weekend as the region is hit with critical fire weather conditions, according to the power company PG&E. The utility said that…
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Trump Administration Threatens Billions in California Welfare Funding in Drive to ID Unauthorized Immigrants
Staff Report – California is at risk of losing nearly $12 billion in federal funding for public assistance programs after the Trump administration threatened to cut off grants to states unless they report every known unauthorized immigrant to immigration authorities, according to reporting from KQED in San Francisco. The threat came in the form of a…
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Trump’s Plans for Major Changes to How National Parks Are Managed is Leaked
Staff Report – The Trump administration is planning a significant reorganization of the National Park Service and other bureaus with the Department of Interior, the second major shake-up of the nationâs public lands infrastructure in less than two years, according to a breaking news scoop from NOTUS, a new D.C. news outfit started by Publisher…
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Elon Musk Proves Great Wealth Does Not Make You Happy
Take the Pledge of Altruism to Find Happiness – By Glynn Wilson – Elon Musk is living proof that great wealth does not make for great happiness. He’s the richest man in the world, the first trillionaire. Yet a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, set to make its world premiere this week at…
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California Legislators Demand A Halt to Plans to Give Part of Yosemite National Park to a Private Developer
Staff Report – A bipartisan coalition of California legislators demanded Wednesday that the Trump administration âhalt and rejectâ a proposed sale of part of Yosemite National Park to a private developer in a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. The letter comes after YosemiteRadio.Org revealed National Park Service staff in California and Washington, D.C., have…
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Haze Over Northern California From Wildfires to the South
Staff Report – Haze hanging over the California Central Valley this week drifted in from more than 100 miles south, where two large wildfires burning in Monterey County are pushing smoke across a wide swath of Northern California. Winds carried smoke from the Timber Fire, which has burned more than 24,000 acres, and the Plaskett…
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Update on Yosemite Land Deal
Staff Report – Conservationists are calling it something that has never happened in Yosemiteâs history: a piece of the national park handed over to a private developer. The Trump administration is weighing a land swap that would transfer a quarter mile strip inside the parkâs western boundary to a Las Vegas real estate firm that…
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Two Men Die After a Midnight Canoe Trip to See the Glowing Water of Tomales Bay
Staff Report – The glowing water that draws paddlers to Tomales Bay on dark summer nights turned deadly over the weekend, when two men in their 30s set out by canoe around midnight and never made it back to camp. The pair launched from a group campsite late Saturday night, August 29, hoping to see…
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Chatbots, Data Centers and Surveillance: 5 Silicon Valley Bills Land on Newsomâs Desk
California lawmakers took on data centers, addictive social media features and AI-powered workplace monitoring with this legislative sessionâs bills. Which will Newsom sign into law? By Rachael Myrow, KQED The state Capitol building in Sacramento, California, shortly before sunset. Historic California bills regulating artificial intelligence and frontier technologies cleared the state Legislature, and are now…
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Record-High 89 Percent of People in the U.S. Say Government Corruption is Widespread
The Big Picture âBy Glynn Wilson â A record high percentage the people of the United States, 89 percent, now say government corruption is widespread, a number that is up 10 percentage points from 2025 and well above readings in the 72 to 79 percent range researchers found in surveys between 2010 and 2025. Democratsâ perceptions…
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Report: The World Will Soon Overshoot Global Warming Goal and Must Change Course
The Big Picture âBy Glynn Wilson â The world has failed in its goal of limiting the average global temperature to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit and must take fast action to limit the âovershootâ or face even more cataclysmic consequences from climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transportation.…