The conversation going on at this time about the county finances based on our principal economic generator, needs a little fresh air. I hope you will read this because I will not repeat myself. I am told it is of little value to understand the truth. I suppose, but here goes. There are two primary [...]
The article about cigarette sales being low and thus there is less revenue from tobacco for various jurisdictions to spend, points out the good and bad of legislating so called “sin”. Perhaps it is the result of the millions spent by drug companies on nostrums to stop smoking. Maybe it really does work. Then I saw [...]
The citizens of the United States, and yes the rest of the world who visits Mariposa, Madera and Tuolumne Counties, are being short changed by the National Park Service in Yosemite. The time will come when those of us who experienced and worked in Yosemite during the last century, and a little in this, will [...]
In 1996, working with my partner Scott Pinkerton, and our great friend and colleague Shirley Sargent, Mariposa Heritage Press edited and reissued Shirley’s book, Mother Lode Narratives. The chapters were made up of letters Jessie B. Fremont wrote or short stories that she provided to a national paper as a series called Far West Sketches. [...]
Dec 182011
We came into Mariposa with the purchase of the Mariposa Drug Company in 1943. We were located in the Odd Fellows Building, had a soda fountain and little business because of World War Two. But this was Dad’s dream and who were we to complain. Coming to Mariposa was simply delightful. Old gold mines, old [...]
Item number one: Superintendent Don Neubacher’s letter in the Sierra Star about the closure of the Upper and Lower River Campgrounds after the flood of 1997, I am afraid, departs from the facts. ( Yosemite after the flood of 1997 by Yosemite National Park Superintendent Don L. Neubacher and a response letter Another perspective on Yosemite flooding aftermath.) [...]
Leroy Radanovich’s Mariposa Life – Thank You For Your Comments
I appreciate the dialog that has been stimulated by my comments. I will not apologize for trying to keep the discussion civil, but I can go the other way also, but won’t. Doesn’t do any good. As far as the quality of candidates for various offices. Look around folks. Our state and national offices are [...]