Joe Moore
President & General ManagerJoe Moore is the President and General Manager of KVPR / Valley Public Radio. From 2010-2018 he served as the station's Director of Program Content. In that role, he launched the station's local news department, hosted the program Valley Edition, and represented the station in the design-build process for KVPR's new broadcast center.
Since becoming President and General Manager in 2019, he has led the station through major programming changes, the launch of KVPR Classical and the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership the station was named California Non-Profit of the Year by Senator Melissa Hurtado (2019), and won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting (2022).
He is a Fresno native and a graduate of California State University, Fresno.
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Before antibiotics, doctors treated TB with sunlight and fresh air at facilities in the foothills. -
While the bulk of the California Gold Rush took place from Mariposa north, the Central California foothills to the south also had a great deal of mining activity. -
These Valley roadways mark important "grid correction" lines that date back to a system devised by Thomas Jefferson. -
A planned mega-development along the river in the late 1980s spurred three women to start the San Joaquin River Parkway & Conservation Trust. -
In a heated exchange, Senator Kennedy told the sheriff to "read the Constitution" after he testified his deputies had arrested people who had not broken the law. -
Mariposa County's courthouse was completed in 1854 and has been in service ever since. -
John C. Fremont got lucky when he mistakenly purchased the Las Mariposas ranch. -
The last grizzly bear in California was seen in the 1920s in Sequoia National Park. -
When it was created in 1850, Mariposa covered 30,000 square miles, or about 1/5th of the entire state. -
The Central Valley's love affair with the automobile has helped influence American culture.
