Daily Briefs

Lawsuit filed in Pismo Beach Toyota accident
Lawsuit filed in Pismo Beach Toyota accident

A Bakersfield man is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against a Pismo Beach restaurant and the Japanese automaker Toyota, stemming from an accident in 2007. As...

Three Assembly members come out against Maldonado
Three Assembly members come out against Maldonado

Three Democratic members of the state Assembly held a press conference Monday to voice their opposition to Abel Maldonado’s appointment as lieutenant governor. [Capitol Alert] Pedro...

Fourth District candidates debate issues at first forum
Fourth District candidates debate issues at first forum

The three candidates for 4th District county supervisor gathered Saturday morning for the first public forum in the race to replace incumbent Katcho Achadjian. [Nipomo...

Marin County tries to bypass PG&E
Marin County tries to bypass PG&E

Marin County is poised to become California’s first to set up its own public power agency–unless Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) can block them in...

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Discovered

Theatre Review: “Mousetrap” merits more applause
Theatre Review: “Mousetrap” merits more applause

By C.L. ALEXANDER So . . . it’s terribly, terribly hard to cast a community theatre production in which all of the actors seem perfectly suited...

Theatre Review: Cambria gets “Finishing Touches”
Theatre Review: Cambria gets “Finishing Touches”

By C.L. ALEXANDER So . . . it’s perplexing to contemplate that only three decades later the 1970s may already represent a bygone era in modern...

Alan Arkin coming to SLO Film Festival
Alan Arkin coming to SLO Film Festival

Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin will receive this year’s King Vidor Award at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. The actor comes to town Saturday,...

AG's Zac Efron makes all the right moves
AG’s Zac Efron makes all the right moves

Arroyo Grande native-turned-Hollywood-star Zac Efron is ready for his Hollywood close-up with a pair of new movie projects, designed to shake up his Disney-fied teen...

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Horoscopes

HUMAN WEATHER REPORT Horoscopes February 5 – 19

Aries (March 21-April 19) As I predicted in your 2010 overview last month, your own ruler Mars is in a retrograde pattern in Leo and...

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Uncovered SLO

Cardiology monopoly: a lucrative game
Cardiology monopoly: a lucrative game

Second in a series: Profit share versus patient care on the Central Coast On Jan. 20, Barbara Williams, a retired civilian Army nurse who was born...

Superintendent skips class to spend time with teenage girlfriend
Superintendent skips class to spend time with teenage girlfriend

Last week, taxpayers paid for the San Miguel Joint Union School District superintendent to attend a symposium in Monterey. However, Supt. Dean Smith apparently skipped...

Are patients dying while hospitals battle over profits?
Are patients dying while hospitals battle over profits?

While San Luis Obispo County hospitals are devoting major marketing dollars to the battle over who is in the best position to treat trauma cases,...

Is Sheriff Hedges missing in action?
Is Sheriff Hedges missing in action?

Is San Luis Obispo County Sheriff-Coroner Pat Hedges actively running the sheriff's department, or is he allowing a temporary employee to cover his repeated absences? Following...

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Opinion

The Tea Party meets the Republican Party
The Tea Party meets the Republican Party

BY MATT KOKKONEN The modern Tea Party movement hearkens back to the efforts of the Sons of Liberty more than 230 years ago. In 1773, the...

Voting No on Maldonado

BY PEDRO NAVA I will be voting NO to confirm Senator Abel Maldonado to the second highest constitutional office in the State of California, a heartbeat...

Every war is a war against a child

BY DAWN ORTIZ-LEGG “Every war is a war against children.”  The elegant simplicity and hard truth of that statement is what made Howard Zinn a remarkable...

Certainly not California

BY GREG KUDLICK It just amazes me that nobody in power, nobody in the “know,” actually understands what is going on. This is an enormous economic shift,...

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Screening Room

Steve Moss Interview
Steve Moss Interview

Steve Moss interview Part 1. Steve Moss was the editor, publisher, and founder of New Times. He also created the 55 Fiction short story contest, which developed...

Cheech and Chong on Fox News
Cheech and Chong on Fox News

A Fox host defends Republicans’ right to smoke pot (bonus videos below). “Even Republicans should be able to get stoned, according to  Fox News anchor Gretchen...

Some Gumby Adventures
Some Gumby Adventures

We were sad to learn of the passing of Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and resident of Los Osos. So for you we present...

Poly Goats Open House 09
Poly Goats Open House 09

Poly Goats Open House 2009 Teaser from Eric A on Vimeo. Not all of the local off-roading is on the Oceano Dunes (In there own words)...

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