Cover Story
Sick no more
It’s a common-sense fact: Every kid should have health insurance. Period. Health professionals have lots of numbers and statistics to back up the argument: Uninsured children have death rates 150 percent higher than kids with insurance. Children without coverage are five times more likely to be treated in an emergency room. Less than half of…
20th fatal
23-year-old Marcel Groesback of Cambria became the 20th person to die on SLO County roads since July 1 when she drove her Lancer SUV off Hi-way 1 near Cayucous at high speed Tuesday night. Groesman’s misshap is the 16th fatal accident in the last two months. -K.H.
Letters
Standardized tests are rubber rulers Thanks so much for the article regarding standardized testing (“This is only a test,” Aug. 11-18), and double thanks to Ivan Simon of the SLOHS English department. Standardized tests may have a place in education, but unless we accept them for the rubber ruler they are, we’re up the educational…
CSD set to start on sewer
The Los Osos CSD announced late Friday afternoon that they had at last completed the permitting process and had received final approval from the California Coastal Commission to proceed with construction on the long-awaited, much-hated, overly debated downtown sewer project. The Coastal Development Permit was issued Friday, Aug. 19, and with the agreement on the…
Owner of moving company charged with felony fraud
The San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s office has indicted Mark Frey, owner of ASAP Movers, on three counts of felony insurance and tax fraud. In court documents, the district attorney says Frey made “knowingly false and fraudulent” statements to the state insurance fund between October 2002 and June 2004. The other two counts accuse…
Cindy Sheehan: Vacaville, Santa Barbara, Crawford
It all started at the national convention of Veterans for Peace in Dallas, when Cindy Sheehan got up to talk, once more, of her pain as a Gold Star Mother. Then, perhaps much to her own surprise, she bolted the hall, taking about half the convention with her, headed for Crawford… and, within days, became…
Give and take
It may seem contradictory to allow some endangered species to be killed or harmed in order to save the species as a whole, but that’s exactly what a habitat conservation plan (HCP) that SLO State Parks is drafting would do. The HCP would allow for a certain amount of “incidental take,” which is the harm…
Pot grove found
More than 550 marijuana plants growing in a creek bed near Highway 227 and Price Canyon Road were discovered on Monday by the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Dept. The plants were hidden by overgrown vegetation. A tip led authorities to the site. No one has been arrested, although officials say there was other evidence…
Molski is back
Less than a month after judges threw three of Jarek Molski’s disability-access lawsuits out of federal court, Molski has refiled two of them in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. The lawsuits target the same businesses that Molski sued in federal court: The Galley restaurant in Morro Bay, and the company that owns EOS winery…
The wheels on the bus
When I was just a little Shredder, I had to walk barefoot in the snow uphill for five miles and endure lots of other made-up things that people never really had to endure just to get to school every morning. When I got there, some bully always stole my lunch money, so I had to…
Crawford or bust, by plane or by bus
As media stirs and attention builds in the small Texas town of Crawford, more and more San Luis Obispoans are packing their sunscreen, candles, and bug spray and heading out to George Bush’s rural ranch to stand in vigil with Cindy Sheehan. The mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year in…
Fish and Game denies request to reduce number of hunting days in Morro Bay
After months of campaigning for tighter hunting rules in Morro Bay, environmental activist Mandy Davis did not receive the response she had hoped for from the Fish and Game Commission. The commission met last week to hear public comments about possibly reducing the number of hunting days in the Morro Bay estuary. Bob Hattoy, Fish…
The Shack under new ownership
Dylan Freiberg closed the deal this month on the purchase of The Shack on Foothill Boulevard in San Luis Obispo. Freiberg bought the popular eating and drinking establishment from Fabrizio Paolozzi, who was asking $199,000 for the business. Paulozzi took over ownership of the restaurant from Scott and Laci Peterson in April 2001. The Shack…
