Cover Story
Blog or be blogged
Blog (weblog) n : a shared online journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies. In the last two years the media has been fixated on blogs and the image of the pajama-wearing writer obsessively posting his or her personal punditry on the Internet. Throughout the presidential election we…
Rose-colored classes
Loriana Moffitt informs me that most people are scared of roses, and I think, “Oh yeah, those sharp little thorns are kind of nasty.” But this isn’t what she’s talking about. What she means is that roses need to be trimmed back just so each winter in order to bloom the following spring and summer.…
High crimes
Grover Beach resident Joe Cupit is no stranger to the dangers of marijuana use. The diabetic veteran had his first run-in with the law 13 years ago when he was living in Salem, Ore. Local cops raided his crops, and he was convicted of felony cultivation. But with a little help from progressive medical marijuana…
Letters
Skip the music and the rodeo Regarding your article “Be Fair… nah” (Strictly Starkey, July 21-28), there are many in our community who would be delighted if the Mid-State Fair did away with one of its grandstand events, namely rodeo. When the rodeo comes to the fair, it brings with it unnecessary animal suffering. Rodeos…
Molski loses three cases
I n a move that some are heralding as a “climate change” in the courts, federal judges have ruled in favor of Central Coast businesses and against Jarek Molski in three separate disability-access cases this month. In his cases against the businesses – The Galley restaurant in Morro Bay, EOS Winery in Paso Robles, and…
Old and in the way
Word on Capitol Hill is that the our representatives, in their infinite sense of fiduciary wisdom, are preparing to take Medicaid – our national medical welfare system, equivalent to MediCal in California – to the “chopping block.” But before they start slashing health benefits for the indigent to save money for our more urgent needs…
What the county is talking about this week
Protest Unrest The California State University Employees Union, which has been in negotiation for several months with the CSU system for a 2.5-percent pay raise, held a spirited rally outside a bargaining session July 26 at Cal Poly. Union members from as far away as Bakersfield banded together outside the Cal Poly administration building with…
No Headline
Here goes nothing I’ve been saying it all along, but does anyone listen to me? Well, yes. Usually. But they didn’t in this case, and now they’re saying what I’ve been saying all along, only they’re pretending like they said it first because they think they thought it up in the first place. Jarek Molski…
