Letters

Not that long ago, the grocery store bagged your food in paper. Then we were told plastic was the responsible choice. It would save the trees. Now we know plastic doesn’t break down. It sits in landfills for centuries or ends up in the ocean, where it tangles and chokes wildlife. So what did the…

By Stanley Bissmeyer, Candidate for District 1 Supervisor Between 1969 and 1971, Mariposa County assumed responsibility for water and sewer systems serving Coulterville and Lake Don Pedro. They also accepted responsibility for Mariposa Pines and Yosemite West. The purpose was to protect public health, support community development and provide reliable management of essential infrastructure. In…

By Stanley Bissmeyer (Candidate for District 1 Supervisor) Protecting citizens from fire is one of local government’s most fundamental responsibilities. Yet Mariposa County’s rural fire protection has been allowed to deteriorate as stations lose volunteers, engines and staffing. This is not an argument against CAL FIRE, Firewise, defensible space or home hardening. All are valuable.…

By Lou Segal (Opinion – Republished from California Current) Prop 39 Deserves your YES Vote Santa Barbara Current publisher James Fenkner has been analyzing the California referendum propositions on the ballot this year. Unlike most of these propositions, SBCurrent strongly recommends you vote YES on Proposition 39, the Voter ID law. Will Proposition 39 cure all that ails us in California…

Proposition 4 Wants You to Pay for Politicians’ Campaigns By James Fenkner, CFA (Republished from California Current – californiacurrent.org) That’s the whole pitch, dressed up as “fair elections.” Fair for whom, exactly? For over five decades California has banned using public money to bankroll candidates. Voters put that rule in place for a very good…

By James Fenkner, CFA (Republished from the California Current – californinacurrent.org) The Boy Who Cried “Temporary!” Prop 3 is not a new school-funding measure. It is the final act in a long confidence game, a tax that began life as temporary, was later extended, and now seeks permanence under the soft lighting of “children’s education…

“Never again should we allow politicians and mad scientists to shut down our mighty economy.” Mark Alexander (Republished from the Patriot Post) This day started with Senate Homeland Security Committee testimony from the mastermind of U.S. lockdowns, a sociopathic little man who, in an unprecedented act of empowerment, was given the keys to the kingdom.…

(Editor’s Note: This November, California’s electorate will decide on 14 new measures packaged as Propositions. Some are straightforward. Most are not. They come wrapped in carefully chosen titles, emotional appeals, and selective details that can make the real trade-offs hard to see. In order to give you better tools with which to understand and influence…

(Republished from California Current – CaliforniaCurrent.org) Leave it to the clowns in Sacramento to turn a simple question of school calendars into another master class in selective pandering. Assembly Bill 2017, rammed through with the eager backing of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Assemblymember Matt Haney, aims to make Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha official…

BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSEN In the #MeToo years, the Left’s signature slogan was “Believe all women!” That directive was used to bolster Christine Blasey Ford’s preposterous and easily refuted 2018 allegations that some 35 years earlier she had been sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, when both were teenagers. Two years later, the…