BY MATT FOUNTAIN
When it comes to the often contentious battle over off-roading at the Oceano Dunes, residents of the Nipomo Mesa and recreational riders rarel...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Lt. Governor Abel Maldonado’s family business reluctantly paid a $111,146 tax lien to the Internal Revenue Service on July 26 to avoid furthe...
BY ROBERT A. MCDONALD
Raise every city fee. Install red light cameras. Raise parking rates. Allow advertising on city buildings. Sell off municipal property. Charge inco...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
After a year-long search, San Luis Obispo County officials selected Jason Giffen of San Diego to be the new director of SLO County Planning and Bui...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
In an effort to preserve one of the few forms of affordable housing in San Luis Obispo County, county staffers will begin to craft a new zoning pol...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
On July 22, the Los Osos Community Advisory Council (LOCAC), a volunteer body that advises the SLO County Board of Supervisors, voted 8-1 to recomm...
BY ROBERT A. MCDONALD
Two employee unions sued San Luis Obispo County on July 14. The SLO Deputy County Counsel Assoc...
BY KATHY JOHNSTON
From the top of a steep chaparral-covered mountain a couple of miles outside Santa Margarita, eye-level with a soaring vulture, you can see a ...
BY ROBERT A. McDONALD
Next to U.S. Highway 101 on Oak Park Boulevard, on a scruffy plot at the junction of Pismo Beach and Arroyo Grande, a self-taught artist is bu...
BY DAN GALPERN
Californians must steel themselves against the Texas oil companies and other dirty energy sirens that have underwritten the campaign for Propositio...
Dan De Vaul and Becky Jorgeson
We’d like to thank our SLO County Board of Supervisors and the Planning Department for accepting building plans for our new 14-bedroom ranch ...
Kyle Berlin
Summer is a word universally loved by people under the age of 18, who love the season of warm days filled with sun, water, freedom, and fun. It&rsq...
Karen Swift
In June 2009, in San Francisco, a law was signed requiring all residences and businesses to compost their organic waste. Two thirds of all garbage ...
Roy Berger
In April, seven Congress members from southwestern states demanded the president immediately increase Mexican border security, stating “viole...
Connie Anderson
Water has been an issue for as long as I can remember, stretching as for back as the mid 1970s. But it seems to make no difference to the land deve...
Troy Spindler
This is from the Energy Savvy website: The average home in the U.S. wastes about 30 percent more energy than an efficient one. The amount of energy...
Katie E. Lichtig, City Manager
The City of San Luis Obispo has received several inquiries regarding fencing along the railroad tracks following the tragic loss of life that occur...
Jonathan Douglas
During my first week in California, I was taken by its striking beauty, having had no idea the mountains, always looming in sight, would prov...
Craig Schmidt
Social Security belongs to the American people, who pay for it every day. More than 50 million Americans, including mor...
|
Why is it that whenever I wake up from a really good dream—where I’m, say, making out with a certain celebrity—I can never fall b...
How should police behave?
BY DYLAN BAUMANN
A new vegan restaurant in Baywood Park, Be Love Café, serves fresh organic meals prepared with locally grown ingredients, and there are...
BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
Lynn Rathbun is not what you’d expect of a Cambrian recluse with a compulsion to paint. She’s worked as a goat farmer, nurseryman,...
BY ASHLEY SCHWELLENBACH
Troy Knox moved from New York to Los Osos one year ago, and promptly began painting his own interpretation of local land and seascapes. When h...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Choreographer Suzy Miller is smart. I’m on the phone with her to talk about her show at SLO Little Theatre—Shimmy, Shake, Shine!&m...
Baxter Moerman: 1118 Morro 305-8118. Featuring Elaine Hyde’s perfume bottles and silver luster glassware, gracefully incorporating blown glas...
BY GLEN STARKEY
Donna Lynn Caskey was born in east Virginia into a family of talented musicians. Can you imagine the freaking pressure?!?
“The younge...
.jpg)
The Millennium Trilogy written by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson has been an international phenomenon, and in this second installation, Noom...
BY KATHY MARCKS HARDESTY
Stopping for dinner at the new Kilt in San Luis Obispo, I wasn’t surprised to find the eclectic menu offered many excellent choices. Mos...
This deep, layered Pinot is ripe, rich, full-bodied, and perfectly balanced. An array of blackberries, earthy plums, and exotic spice ar...
I loved this delightful Riesling at first sip. It’s a refreshing white with great balance between the slightly sweet pear and nectarine flavo...
Just Imagine takes place on Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. The show, which is affiliated with the program Friendship Through Dance is presented by American Dance...
By popular demand, Irene Flores, the illustrator of the series Mark of the Succubus, returns to the Atascadero Library for a Manga Drawing Workshop...
A surfer since the 1960s, The Captain, who’s a Cambria resident, entices movie-goers with a unique surf film – focusing on local shredd...
|
