BY MATT FOUNTAIN
If you’re a registered voter in the city of San Luis Obispo, then by the time you read this, there may be a ballot for the June 18 special election sitting in your mailbox.
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BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
Templeton’s Twin Cities Community Hospital landed in the Sacramento spotlight May 14 with the release of a report by a nurses union pushing health-care reform. The Californi...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
The District Attorney’s Office’s star witness in the prosecution of co-defendants Rhonda Wisto and Frank York has followed through with his plea deal and pleaded guilty—...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
They call it “community civility,” and it’s part of the city’s Neighborhood Wellness efforts, but the latest decision by the San Luis Obispo City Council to work more ...
BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
The winning bid for the Paso Robles sewer upgrade came in $3.1 million under budget, but city staff warned that developers shouldn’t expect a major break on connection fees....
BY PATRICK M. KLEMZ
The Central Coast’s first major wildfire this season lasted almost a week and burned 4,346 acres in and around the Los Padres National Forest southeast of the Carrizo Plain....
BY AMY ASMAN
Former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado recently made a stop in his hometown of Santa Maria to ask Californians to help him “end this crazy thing called A.B. 109.”
Enacted in Octo...
• A recent article (“Arroyo Grande hates on charter-bashing bill,” May 16) confused two South County municipalities’ interests in becoming charter cities. Grover Beach...
BY CHRIS WHITE-SANBORN
As someone who once sort of learned how to give CPR—or at least was supposed to—I know all about medical stuff and how bodies do things. As a result, I’ve been poking a ...
BY MAEVA CONSIDINE
If you’ve ever woken up in a rose bush, covered in glitter and wearing a banana suit, tequila was probably to blame. If you’ve ever found yourself in your living room watc...
BY NICK POWELL
Four years ago, I stumbled into journalism almost on accident. Several drives—namely, my hopelessly egotistical dreams of writing the ninth Great American Novel,* my empty b...
BY PAUL RINZLER
There is a group of Christian fundamentalists who have embarked on an extensive and well-organized mission to evangelize elementary school children in SLO County and around th...
Andrea Devitt
With Cuesta College’s graduation soon to take place, it’s important for all of us to remind ourselves how lucky we are for the California Community College System. The imp...
Ed Thoma
We’ve been sustaining Chinese cyber attacks on our companies for years, and more recently our government institutions. They have been traced back to the People’s Liberatio...
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Remember when those lunatics in spandex sped through town, cutting off access to your house and making that coffeehouse in Avila Beach so mad the owner pissed lattes for a wee...
What is the hardest musical instrument to learn?
BY LAREINA GAMBOA
Can you ever say it’s not a gorgeous day out in the vineyards when you’re wine tasting? Whether you’re trying to stay dry from the rain or cool from the heat, sitting ba...
BY BRYCE WILSON
If you want to be a filmmaker with a name like Cassavetes, you have a serious legacy to live up to. But Xan Cassavetes, daughter of independent film legend John Cassavetes, ha...
BY ANNA WELTNER
It wasn’t Michelangelo’s David that struck choreographer Diana Stanton on her honeymoon in Florence, but his unfinished masterpieces, known as the Prisoners.
These marble...
BY GLEN STARKEY
It’s Saturday, May 18, 2013, but as I look around, it could just as easily be 1945—an America buoyed by winning World War II, increased economic prosperity, and a new sens...
BY ANNA WELTNER
Remember when I told you about local artist Jeff Claassen’s Kickstarter campaign, the Puzzle Painting? Well, it’s only fair to mention Santa Maria photographer Mark Velasq...
BY GLEN STARKEY
What does it mean to let go? Does it mean throwing off the shackles of the rat race and disappearing into nature? Embracing your dream? Surrendering to love?
For Moon...
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Director J.J. Abrams helms the follow-up to his 2009 reboot of Star Trek. This time around, the crew of the Enterprise discovers evil within their midst, and Captain Kir...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
Are you macho enough to say you love pink wine? I am. If you’re also answering yes, you won’t want to miss this outstanding new Central Coast wine festival devoted to Paso...
This estate-grown wine from winemaker Gary Burk is delicious and inviting. A tasty blend of plums, blackberries, and spice, it’s beautifully balanced and easy drinking...
Cactuses, like pet rocks, can seem hard to love. After all, a cactus does everything in its power to … uh … keep you at arm’s length. But cactuses and succulents are oft...
They say life is what you want to make of it. If that’s true, this New Times writer would be living in an earthquake-proof glass container filled with chinchillas and those ...
Lots of folks move to the Central Coast to be near our scenic and natural beauty. I personally moved here because I saw an episode of Oprah that said this was the happiest pla...
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