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PG&E could help discover the origin of the universe
Science asks, PG&E says no. What Bob Echols really wants is a hole in the ground. And not just Echols, his co-professors at Cal Poly; scientists up at Livermore Berkeley Labs; physicists at MIT, Stanford, and around the world all want the same thing. They all want PG&E to say yes to them digging a…
Morro Bay budget is an ‘ongoing problem’
The city of Morro Bay has lost money for two consecutive years, and continues to do so at a rate of $200,000 per month. It appears that the solution lies in either raising taxes and/or laying off one-third of our city employees. It was stated at the Feb. 14 City Council meeting that the past…
Gays’ reverse discrimination is shameful
Yesterday a good friend told me an astonishing story. Recently two former gay friends of hers coldly walked up to her one evening and told her point blank that they no longer could be friends because she was “thoughtâ€? to be a Republican. Mind you, thought to be a Republican! She had known and supported…
Starkey’s motives revealed
Glen: You killed Sandra Dee. Bastard. You should be ashamed of yourself. And don’t give me any crap about not knowing she was going to die, either. Not only that, you paint perverted art and are a member of a scooter gang. Brett Cross brettcross@charter.net
What the County’s talking about this week
Grinning Zavala gets 16 months for bomb threat Wednesday morning, 18-year-old Jesus Zavala was sentenced to 16 months in state prison by a San Luis Obispo Superior Court judge for making bomb threats to Nipomo High School. He will also have to pay about $28,000 in restitution to the school to defray the costs and…
What happened to the pain docs?
A little more than one year ago, three local doctors — and their lawyers — made a settlement with the state’s medical board: The doctors would pay $20,000 each, attend more than 40 hours of training programs, and all would receive a “public reprimandâ€? from the board. In return, the board would drop the almost…
Smoke gets in your ayes
Doug Shaw has owned The Sanctuary Tobacco Shop on Chorro Street in downtown San Luis Obispo since 1992, and he’s grateful for the more than a decade of success. “Business has been very, very good for me, and I’m very fortunate,â€? Shaw said of his thriving cigar shop. “I don’t mind not being politically correct.â€?…
Recall redux
Three decades after being mandated by the state to build a wastewater treatment plant, the community of Los Osos is now closer than ever to breaking ground on its fabled sewer system. And this could only mean one thing: The people of Los Osos are now closer than ever to scrapping the entire project and…
Catholics and Mardi Gras … I don’t think so
I’d like to thank DJ CH405 for his insightful letter from the Feb. 10-17 issue (“Mardi Gras oppression unconstitutionalâ€?). It brought back a flood of wonderful memories of the years I spent attending Catholic schools and all those crazy celebrations we had in that wacky week before Lent, when the priests would get sloppy drunk…
MB can’t afford to borrow money
On Feb. 14, the Morro Bay City Council voted down (3-2) a call for an emergency freeze on discretionary spending, citing the budget problem is not an emergency, and Mr. Peirce added that it is not an “ongoing problem.â€? A copy of the city’s 2004-05 budget is available in the library and City Hall. A…
I’m not buying sheriff’s euphemisms
In the article on the sheriff’s department a few weeks ago (“Clearing the air,â€? Jan. 27-Feb. 3), concerning Keith Yecny: It was stated that jail staff was cleared of any wrongdoing by the district attorney’s office. The fact is that jail staff was cleared of any “prosecutableâ€? crime. Secondly, it was stated that Keith Yecny…
Wake-up call to PG&E!
Between our everyday lives and events that dominate our news, it is easy for other topics, such as a neutrino project, to be missed. Recently there has been publicity highlighting a “neutrino telescopeâ€? at Diablo Canyon. This is a project worthy of our consideration, and yet it hasn’t been given a fair shake. Let me…
Kudos to Sam Blakeslee
We applaud Sam Blakeslee’s recognition that nuclear energy and its highly radioactive waste byproduct is a no-win situation for people living on the Central Coast … or on the planet earth, for that matter. As members of the next generation, we hope Mr. Blakeslee’s transitionary energy bill will look beyond fossil fuel dependency. Now is…
Bello’s bows out
Bello’s Sporting Goods, a downtown San Luis Obispo institution since 1945, will soon close. Owner Tom Bello said that starting this week he’ll sell off the rest of his inventory and will then sell the Monterey Street building. “You just reach a place where you want to spend as much time with your family while…
The LOCSD must be stopped
Regarding your News section story (Feb. 17-24) on “Contractors bid on sewer despite suspension threatâ€?: If anyone in Los Osos is puzzling over whether or not to sign recall papers on the three seated CSD board members, they might want to pay attention to the upcoming vote by those three board members to not only…
Use your head, Mayor Dave
Well, it’s nice to see the mayor will stand up for what he believes in (Commentary, Feb. 17-24). On Mayor Romero’s watch, one of SLO’s best and favorite traditions was killed, at a reported cost of $500,000. He is proud to tell us he was skiing while the execution was underway. I suppose he was…
Art makes the world go ’round
Maybe Starkey is just Mal-arkey I must have said once upon a time Then Glen Starkey found the art key and light he’s shed on the SLO sublime art in public places reflect in public faces the joy of being where people passing stop and stare and ponder and wonder and SLO-down …
Much ado about nothing
I couldn’t sleep last night, and when I can’t sleep, I stay awake. It’s a bad habit, I know, but I haven’t figured out anything else to do when I’m not sleeping. When I stay awake, I also have the tendency to think, which is also a bad habit, I know, because life’s a lot…
