Thank you, Bradenton Journal readers

You are why the Journal works.

When I launched The Bradenton Journal almost two and a half years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. Yes, I had 32 years of daily newspaper experience — half of that covering Bradenton and Manatee County — but I wasn’t sure how I would use the Substack platform and whether it would provide readers with something worth space in their in boxes or in the…