Cover Story
One is the loneliest number?
As Valentine’s Day approaches, singles in SLO County and throughout the nation are reminded that they don’t conform to societal standards. # Coupling up is the natural order of things or so our culture tells us via endless articles, advertising, and more subtle and insidious means. Couples tend to pay less per person than singles…
Correction
Last week’s Citizen’s Alert carried incorrect meeting dates for various local councils and other bodies. This week’s shows the correct dates for those meetings.
Want a view with that haircut?
Coco Body Lounge occupies a modest space with polished wood floors and a spectacular view, upstairs from Avila’s promenade “across from the ocean,” owner Terez Autrand chimes. A line of shoes arranged neatly outside the door signals that it’s time to relax and stay awhile. Fresh air and delicate essential oils mingle with natural light…
Six-story buildings in downtown SLO get three thumbs up
Two San Luis Obispo city councilmembers Christine Mulholland and Allen Settle found themselves on the short end of a vote over tall buildings downtown at a Feb. 6 City Council meeting. New height standards were approved 3-2. # Concerns over the loss of views and sunshine from downtown sidewalks, non-affordable housing in new higher-rise buildings,…
Letters
Tom Tomorrow says ‘You’re welcome’ Wow. Thank goodness This Modern World was on the same page (“Here’s why we must prevail in Iraq,” Feb. 1). Rather than bang my head against a wall, I can only hope Otis and all his family have the honor of supporting Bush by going to Iraq and prevailing in…
Washington turns pink
In the final days of January, 11 members of SLO Code Pink packed up all of their pink accoutrements and headed to Washington, D.C. to join throngs of other peace activists as they marched in protest against the war. # For more than two years, the local chapter of the women-initiated grassroots peace organization has…
Locals continue to feel effects of the freeze
The frost may have melted, but the icy after-effects of the statewide mid-January freeze continue to chill farmworkers, business owners, and others around the state and county. On Feb. 7, Congresswoman Lois Capps announced that she had joined with other members of the California delegation to introduce a disaster relief bill to provide emergency assistance…
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Are you here already? Fine. Uno momento por favor while I slide this Coco Rosie back into my Freitag attache. Oh, you like that? Yeah, it’s the new iPod Zero. It fits snugly on the head of a pin, plays a chord, and retails for roughly the gross domestic product of the country it was…
Fast facts:
Steaming Bean in Shell Beach is giving back to its customers with three days of delicious food and drink. Enjoy complimentary appetizers with local wine Feb. 9 and 10 from 5 to 8 p.m. and all-American barbecue on Feb. 11 from 2 to 5 p.m. For more info, call 773-2222. Old Country Deli has been…
Lucia Mar labor talks produce tentative agreement
Almost a year of negotiations concluded late in the day Jan. 31 with a tentative agreement between district officials and the Lucia Mar Unified Teachers Association. The settlement gives South County educators a base salary increase of 10.5 percent over two years, more money for the newest teachers, and an additional 10 percent in stipends…
Has power corrupted the water boards?
As a Libertarian, I go on record frequently opposing taxation as legalized theft. Now we have both a regional and state agency dictating to a relatively small community such that homeowners are at risk of losing their homes entirely. This really is untenable. Regardless of my Libertarian position on taxes, I have to speak to…
‘Not so fast,’ says anti-nuclear group
The political action group that successfully challenged PG&E’s government-approved permits to construct a uranium storage facility on the Central Coast warned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week not to rush through its court-ordered terrorism review. Last year in San Francisco, Mothers for Peace won a bid to invalidate the permits to load two decades’ worth…
Court puts the plug in water fee scheme
Barring appeal, many local water rights holders may soon receive a refund on three years’ worth of fees paid to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). In a Jan. 17 ruling, a Sacramento appeals court found the agency’s funding scheme unconstitutional and ordered the refund of up to $20 million in collected fees to…
