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How does Measure J measure up?
It’s a 52-page document that everyone’s talking about but almost no one has read. As the campaigns for and against Measure J shift into high gear, # voters and opinion-makers are talking about potential transformations to the community if Ernie Dalidio’s development proposal successfully finds its way through the initiative process. Both sides have made…
Let the calendar be your menu
Don’t be fooled by the misleading weather. Autumn is here, and with it come the familiar sights of the season: Orange pumpkins swelling in fields and decorating roadside stands. Fresh apple cider served in a steaming mug or, if the fickle weather stays warm, chilled in a frosty glass. Thick stew bubbling in a pot…
If at first you don’t succeed …
Mothers for Peace, a local group that filed and won a lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in June, pitched another motion on Sept. 18, demanding that the federal body abide by the previous ruling. That decision, issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on June 2, ordered the NRC to conduct further reports…
County to adopt Bob Jones
While various nonprofit and municipal forces eye up patches of land to finally make the Bob Jones “City to the Sea” bike trail a completed route, stretches of the existing path already sit in disrepair. In several segments along the path’s meandering route through the Avila Valley around San Luis Obispo Creek, tree roots have…
Two new players step up in the SLO County art world
Two of the county’s most significant arts venues are undergoing management shifts. Tim Anderson, who’s been curator of the San Luis Obispo Art Center for nearly seven years, will be leaving to direct Cuesta College’s gallery and teach two art classes as of Jan. 9. Anderson is the Art Center’s first full-time, paid curator. #…
When all else fails, delegate
I was never good at geography. I spent my formative years thinking that we had two different Earths a big, flat one like the map on my elementary school classroom’s wall, and a spinning, round one like the globe near my desk. I wasn’t sure which one I was on, but I knew that whichever…
Burning forests, burning chaparral, burning money
Recent mountain snow showers and leeward rains helped forestry officials corral a pair of wildfires in south-central Montana that claimed more than 250,000 acres since late August. With those blazes extinguished, national attention turned to the closer Day Fire, which exploded from 20,000 acres to more than 85,000 in its third weekend of activity. Most…
The path of least resistance
Restaurateur Larry Haro remembers when downtown Guadalupe hosted a vibrant scene. “It was a very prosperous community,” Haro said. “We had restaurants, movie theaters, pool halls there was a lot to do.” A vintage snapshot of Guadalupe’s main drag from the 1950s or # ’60s typically reveals a bounty of pedestrian and vehicular traffic flowing…
Letters
Taxpayers would pick up bill for elderly ex-consKaren Velie was inaccurate in her article “Look behind the bars” (Sept. 7), when she stated that the healthcare of elderly prisoners would no longer fall to the taxpayers if they were released. Those who have managed to work at jobs that paid into Social Security are eligible…
LAFCO’s advice: No dissolution for the CSD
County taxpayers can breathe a sigh of relief. A staff report released by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) on the afternoon of Sept. 17 advised the organization’s board to not dissolve the Los Osos Community Services District (CSD). Law stipulates that, if a district goes insolvent or dissolves, all assets and liabilities pass on…
Clear Channel is making changes
Radio, like most mainstream media outlets, is suffering the effects of an ever-changing market. The New York Times reported on Sept. 15 that Clear Channel Communications America’s biggest radio operator, boasting more than 1,200 stations in upwards of 250 markets is considering selling out some of its radio stations located in smaller markets. # San…
Watch your vegetables
Unless Popeye gets his spinach from the local co-op, it might be up to Wimpy to save Olive Oyl the next time around. On Sept. 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the warning regarding the presence of E. coli in spinach from prepackaged to all supermarket spinach. That decision came after learning that…
Ukrainian visitors explore the county
Citizens of San Luis Obispo County, it’s time to brush up on your Ukrainian, stand up straight, and look democratic. The SLO County Chapter of the League of Women Voters (which is not exclusive to women and hasn’t been since the 1970s) is hosting a delegation of five Ukrainian government officials Oct. 14 through 22…
FAST FACTS
Local anesthesiologist and past president of the San Luis Obispo County Medical Society, Stephen Mulder, recently founded a nonprofit organization called New Choices Integrative Health. Dedicated to educating people about the significance of nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices in an integrative approach to health, Mulder hopes that this organization will help people identify the link…
