I suppose I should shut up and finish out my days but from time to
time screw ball things occur in Mariposa County that I feel the need
to comment on. This addition of Agra Tourism to the General Plan in
the form that is being considered is not at all as important as the
time and money that [...]

I have been privileged to know many interesting characters who came
to Mariposa during my almost 70 years of residence. Being the son of
the village pharmacist I spent most of my youth downtown, sweeping
out the Drug Store and sidewalks etc. But none of this class of
visitors was more intelligent or at times inserted themselves into
the daily [...]

Government as we know it has made many changes during the last 40 years. Perhaps the greatest change that occurred was when Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann got together in Southern California and formed a committee of apartment owners which sponsored a ballot measure called the Jarvis/Gann intuitive. This measure changed California even more than [...]

Planning
Land use planning is one of those items that the framers of the
constitution left out, probably intentionally. The Constitution of
the United States does leave a few areas of life to the States, and
thus to the local governments. While we do adopt a land use General
Plan, it is designed along lines dictated by the State government.
The [...]