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More visitors, less waiting: Yosemite survey shows strong peak-season visitor experience
With visitation up, preliminary survey finds 96% of visitors rated their Yosemite experience good or excellent National Park Service News Release More people are visiting Yosemite National Park this year, but they aren’t spending more time waiting. Preliminary results from a new peak-season visitor survey found 96% of visitors rated their recreational experience in Yosemite…
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Globe accused of ‘Hit Piece’ over exposé of CA assemblyman who sent $6 million to his own nonprofit from state budget
Taxpayers did not volunteer to underwrite Assemblyman Jackson’s nonprofit By Katy Grimes (Republished from The California Globe – california globe.com) California Assemblyman Dr. Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley), who received his Masters in Social Work, founded and directs the nonprofit Center Against Racism and Trauma (CART), which has only been tax-exempt since February 2022. Earlier this year, he named CART his legislative…
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How the Smithsonian quietly erased America’s founders
By Jerry Newcombe, CP Op-Ed Contributor (Republished from The Christian Post – christianpost.com) Fireworks in Washington, D.C. were not reserved only for the 4th of July. Just last week, there were fireworks in some Capitol hearings related to controversy at the museum. • Is there “woke nonsense” at America’s prestigious Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.,…
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Mariposa County Supervisors to consider visitor center RFP, DA appointment, and service actions
The Mariposa County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 9 a.m. in the Board Chambers at the Mariposa County Government Center, 5100 Bullion Street. Meeting Overview The meeting will open with the call to order and roll call, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, introductions, and approval of the…
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Is ChatGPT making us lonelier than ever?
(Republished from The Christian Post – christianpost.com) By Hannah Lape, Op-ed contributor By the end of the 1980s, American poet and novelist Wendell Berry faced peer pressure to give up writing by hand and get a computer, so much so that he published an essay titled “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer.” In it,…
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‘Prayer is a mighty thing’: Church networks offer hope to communities that ‘lost everything’ in Nepal
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter (Republished from The Christian Post – christianpost.com) Days after catastrophic landslide flooding in Nepal left more than 1,000 people dead, Christian organizations and church networks are mobilizing for what they anticipate will be a years-long effort to aid survivors who’ve lost “everything,” including countless children who’ve lost parents and are now living…
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From Bootjack to breast cancer and back home: Mariposa native brings story of resilience to County Fair
For Erin Bressler (née Begley), bringing her book Mindful Companion and her small business, Bootjack Girl, to the Mariposa County Fair is more than an opportunity to share something she created. It is a homecoming. Born and raised in Mariposa, Bressler grew up in Bootjack as Erin Begley, a name that may be familiar to longtime local residents.…
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Fair board veterans inducted into Western Fairs Hall of Fame, Munn to be recognized
Two longtime members of the Mariposa County Fair Board, Tom Williams and Lowell Munn, were inducted in January into the Western Fairs Association (wFA) Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Reno, Nev. “This is the greatest honor of my life,” Williams said. “I have always tried to do what was best for the fairgrounds…
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Mariposa County Fair ready to welcome community home
Four-day Labor Day weekend celebration features free family entertainment, livestock traditions, rodeo action and the annual destruction derby. The Mariposa County Fair and Homecoming will return for its 88th this Friday, Sept. 4, opening a four-day Labor Day weekend celebration built around the theme “Red, White, Blue and Ewe.” Admission is $10 for adults ages…
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Wildfire liability bill dies without a vote on final day of session
BY LEVI SUMAGAYSAY (This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.) After nearly a month of intense closed-door negotiations, California lawmakers on the last day of session killed a compromise bill that failed to insulate utilities when they cause catastrophic wildfires. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the utilities had fought to significantly reduce what utility companies…
