But this is not a comprehensive plan that involves all the gateway communities. This is a plan that picks one winner out of many losers.

A few weeks after I met with Supervisor Cann I was invited to a community meeting in Mariposa attended by several hundred Mariposa residents who raised the issue during a question and answer session, and expressed strong opposition to the…

Of all the unresolved issues surrounding this, it is crystal clear that a consensus has not yet emerged locally.

The ultimate goal is to remove as many vestiges of human activity from the park as possible.

I had the opportunity to meet with a group of county officials and business leaders earlier this year in Mariposa who were pursuing this project as a gateway to Yosemite.

Wind does not come environmentally without cost.

It is estimated to produce 800 megawatts of the cleanest and cheapest electricity on the planet.

About 15 years ago I asked the California Energy Commission for its estimate of the cost of various sources of power for electricity generation.

I would start by suggesting that we ought to count the damn hatchery fish.

I think we have run a follow of McClintock's first law of political physics which is the more we invest in our mistakes the less willing we are to admit them.

I specifically asked the head of their sovereign debt division if the budget adopted by the House last year, the so-called Ryan budget, would have preserved the AAA credit rating of the United States government. His answer was it would…