Letters

Editor, I am writing to support Stanley Bissmeyer for our District 1 Supervisor.  He has lived in Mariposa for 55 years, and has celebrated the good times, and suffered through the bad times that long-term residents have lived through in Mariposa. He loves Mariposa County, and those of us who have chosen to live here. …

Editor, We have been seeing a lot of exposure of problems with fraud and waste in government lately.  Billions upon billions in fraud waste and abuse of just about everything government is supposed to do for us. It is time to get these problems solved at every level. We are taxed enough and need our…

  By: Bill O’Reilly (Republished from billoreilly.com) Back in the late 1960s, flower power was blooming in the USA.  Radical leftists like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Jane Fonda believed the anti-Vietnam War sentiment would lead to permanent leftist change in America.  Instead of capitalism, folks would “share the land.” All would be groovy, far…

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.…