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Josh Friedman             102 more here.

SLO County policy changes under fire

Arroyo Grande commissioner accused of conflict of interest

Is SLO prepared for possible loss of Measure Y money?

Karen Velie             100 more here.

Wallace’s continuing costs to South County residents

State Bar temporarily disbars Paso Robles attorney

Covello quitting the DA’s office

Daniel Blackburn             80 more here.

Here’s a vote for public comment

County pension liability tops $346 million

Supervisors waffle on support for Paso Robles water bill

Lisa Rizzo             62 more here.

Genius behind delivery of high speed “Hobbit” in SLO

Governor Brown approves whistleblower protection, military reform

Air quality district internal emails expose manipulations

Dennis Eamon Young             46 more here.

More 29th Central Coast Writers’ Conference event photos

29th Central Coast Writers’ Conference, event photos

Broadway by the Sea 2013, event photos

Colin Jones             36 more here.

Train rolls into the Mid-State Fair

A Chumash Christmas with Brian Setzer

Alice Cooper to perform at the Chumash

Dave Congalton             33 more here.

Dennis & Me: Remembering Dennis Farina

Why is there no justice for Valerie Lane?

Come home Sam—We need you

Julie Tacker             24 more here.

Open letter to San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisor’s Chairman Bruce Gibson

Gibson picks and chooses public comment

Why would Paavo Ogren leave SLO County?

Miranda Foresman             23 more here.

Movie review: Mud

Movie review: Oz the Great and Powerful

Movie review: Warm Bodies

Peter Scheer             17 more here.

Blame Jerry Brown for no decision on constitutionality of gay marriage

California Public Record Act threatened by stealth amendments

First Amendment case threatens public employee unions

Roger Freberg             16 more here.

Sometimes the good guys win

Discrimination at Cal Poly? Say it isn’t so

Does Ann Coulter make you hot?

Gary Nemeth             14 more here.

Paso Robles mayor candidate asks for unity

Roads, who do we believe?

Write in Gary Nemeth for Mayor of Paso Robles

Gary Foresman             13 more here.

How we can thrive

What is Integrative Medicine?

Marketing of Fear and Disease in America

Leticia Rodriguez             12 more here.

Spotlight: What’s happening this weekend

Spotlight: What’s happening this weekend

Opponents battle over Prado Road extension

John Salisbury             11 more here.

Local farm laborers, NAFTA, and child labor laws

Cost of Sacramento Delta water woes

Protecting our water rights

Nick Altamirano             11 more here.

Wine, Waves and Beyond 2012 bikini fashion show, event photos

The Big Laugh 2012, event photos

Karmic Pizza at the Cliff’s Resort, event photos

Karlee Prazak             11 more here.

Weekend spotlight: Creston Classic Rodeo

Weekend spotlight: Celebrate California wines

Weekend spotlight: Stone Soup Music Faire

C.L. Alexander             7 more here.

Theatre Review: “Taking Leave”

Theatre Review: Looking for “Love” at the Melodrama

Theatre Review: PCPA’s “Macbeth” Is a Must-See

Lois Capps             7 more here.

Lois Capps questions cuts to Social Security

Stop student loan rate hikes

Capps on the Republican budget

Stacey Warde             7 more here.

Trampling the First Amendment in Cayucos

Crazy comes to Cayucos, pretends to have a gun

Greed: The real American dream

Matt Kokkonen             7 more here.

We need to protect against localized terrorist attacks

Misrepresentations in the Affordable Care Act

Illegals living in the United States should not practice law

Kevin Rice             5 more here.

Is it unethical for Mike Byrd to take positions on issues?

Rice announces candidacy for SLO City Council

SLO city salary cuts: $0.00

Gordon Mullin             5 more here.

Saving for retirement, affordability or priority

The minimum wage charade

Mom and Medi-Cal

Stew Jenkins             5 more here.

Has the Supreme Court already held SLO City’s Low Campaign Contribution Limits Unconstitutional?

Welcome in Obama Care

Supervisors consider ordinance to jail their opponents

Thomas Dawson             5 more here.

Open letter to the second district

ICLEI’s agenda

Resilient Communities and our Supervisors

Tom Salmon             5 more here.

Bruce Gibson’s record of failures

Los Osos officials playing games

Wastewater project wastes water

Cindy Steinbeck             5 more here.

Steinbeck: Looking deeper into EMWD’s thirst

POWR IS “belligerent” defending North County

Export power is still on the table

David Broadwater             4 more here.

Wal-Mart bait and switch

Atascadero’s liars and thieves $7.5 million rip off

Atascadero City Council shuts off dialog with public

Becky Jorgeson             4 more here.

Support housing the homeless, not a giant shelter

Thanks from Hopes Village of San Luis Obispo

A home for the homeless

Walter Heer             4 more here.

Plan B for Paso Robles water shortage

Paso Robles city government has real problems

Blindly support Paso Robles or else

Pete Evans             4 more here.

Love letter to the NRA

San Luis Obispo management needs to be accountable

I Blame the San Luis Obispo City Council

Lauren Sharabianlou             4 more here.

Cal Poly students’ legitimate excuse to dance until 4 a.m.

SLOSocial Seen, Frog and Peach

Cal Poly Valentine stories, video

Adi Jones             3 more here.

Movie review: Sherlock Holmes

Movie review: Avatar

Twilight sucks — let me count the ways

Alex Alexiev             3 more here.

SLO Water Politics vs. The Geopolitics of Food and Water`

Huasna Valley and California’s war on oil and gas

Jim Patterson and the California Valley solar ranch

Karen Reed             3 more here.

Paso Robles water plan is just not working

The fight over water continues in Paso Robles

The issue is water in Paso Robles

Mike Brennler             3 more here.

Atascadero Little Leaguers have character

Democracy in Atascadero should amount to more

Who’s to blame for the abolition of California’s redevelopment agencies?

Don Regan             3 more here.

Taxation with representation

Time to wake up the giant

The candidate and the TV commercial

Piper Reilly             3 more here.

Something smells in Los Osos

Looking for transparency in Los Osos

Something smells in Los Osos

Jack McCurdy             3 more here.

Diablo Nuclear Plant: Disaster Waiting to Happen?

How Sam Blakeslee misleads the voters

Historic proposed state policy against use of sea water

Bill Denneen             3 more here.

Thoughts on the winter solstice

Tips on living from “Octo-Man”

Thankful for Planned Parenthood

John Laird             3 more here.

Let’s get prison healthcare out of the Intensive Care Unit

Closed state parks cost Central Coast jobs

It’s time to stand up for public education

Jeff Bliss             3 more here.

Saving for a rainy day

The Legacy of Warren Baker

Let’s do launch: A new approach to the old business of news

Louis Bishop             3 more here.

Restaurant Review: Urbane Cafe makes a dubious Splash

Restaurant review: Raku rocks us all night long

Restaurant review: Robin’s a smashing success

Bob Jacobs             3 more here.

Season of the Beast, chapter 4

Season of the Beast, chapter 3

Season of the Beast, chapter 2

Gary Kirkland             3 more here.

Diablo Canyon is safe

Water conservation does not work

Welfare in the Roman Empire

Jerry Reaugh             3 more here.

Water district supporters criticize POWR and PR-WIN

PRAAGS and PRO Water Equity don’t see future water banking

A California water district: the best approach to manage our water crisis

CCN Staff             3 more here.

Cal Poly radio station at risk after sexually explicit fundraiser

CAPSLO demotes Dee Torres

Sheriff revamps report of drug bust

Sally Reynolds             2 more here.

Paso Robles is the Taj Mahal and taxpayers are paying dearly

Clean up Paso Robles

Robert Thomas             2 more here.

Answering the eyeglass critics

California Men’s Colony accused of gross negligence

Robert Sachs             2 more here.

Local family’s story of the ether rapist on Dr. Phil

Our Story with Robert Howard Bruce: The Ether Rapist

Paso Robles Police Officers’ Association             2 more here.

Paso Robles Police officers’ fight for public safety

PR police union demands safe work environment

Javier Duran             2 more here.

Protect soldiers’ benefits

San Luis Obispo soldier on 9/11, family and deployment

Jeff Edwards             2 more here.

Oceano needs to replace questionable board member

County failing to protect Oceano from flooding?

Sam Blakeslee             2 more here.

Run Away Prison Costs Hurting Our State

Fix California

Marilyn Armstrong             2 more here.

Following the corporate pied piper

Vote to protect our coastline on June 22

Joe Cortez             2 more here.

Cortez speaks out against deputies transgressions

Jail pink slips should send up a public safety S.O.S

Jane Swanson             2 more here.

Time to close down Diablo Canyon

What to do about Diablo Canyon?

Noel Foerst             2 more here.

People not being heard on Paso water issue

Our constitutional responsibility

SLO Surfrider Foundation             2 more here.

Coastal conservation in Morro Bay

Sanitation district needs an independent investigation

Dawn Ortiz-Legg             2 more here.

Every war is a war against a child

Afghanistan 2010

Al Brill             2 more here.

Mind your own business – Succession planning

Mind your own business

Lin Hill             2 more here.

Coincidence? You be the judge

Oceano needs to put residents first

Paso Robles Public Educators             2 more here.

Paso Robles teachers demand superintendent tell the truth

Paso Robles educators and administrators at impasse

Richard Schmidt             2 more here.

SLO residents need to band together

SLO water rates to rise again

Laura Morduant             2 more here.

Partisanship is not a crime

Common sense, our elected officials and you

April McLaughlin             2 more here.

How local is your local Farmers’ Market?

Keep Arroyo Grande farmer’s market for local producers

LARRY MCGOURTY             2 more here.

Open letter to Senator Monning,

Who are you kidding Mr. Reaugh?

ERICA EVANS             2 more here.

El Ten Eleven brings a new sound to SLO Brew

An evening at Cal Poly with the Temptations

Dan Carpenter             2 more here.

Traditional homeless shelter vs. permanent housing

Prohibition ended over 80 years ago

Ken Williams             1 more here.

More and more people call the streets home

Steve Kleiwer             1 more here.

Eyes on the Earth 3D

Johnny Kenny             1 more here.

2010 Surf Roots Tour boasts pretty faces and heavyweight talent

The Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC)             1 more here.

Dana Adobe plans disrespects native culture

James C Wood             1 more here.

Diktat or democracy?

Karen Daniels             1 more here.

Paso Robles must learn from history

John Reynolds             1 more here.

An open letter to Paso Robles residents

Rock Zierman             1 more here.

Benefits of Arroyo Grande oil wells outweigh impacts

DJ Jaffe             1 more here.

SLO County Board of Supervisors should implement Laura’s Law

Gerry Manata             1 more here.

Why Am I Running?

Gary Freiberg             1 more here.

Stop the Los Osos sewer

Marilyn Rossa             1 more here.

Oh Cuesta, my Cuesta

Gilbert H. Stork             1 more here.

A bond for Cuesta College; not if but when

Patrick Mullen             1 more here.

A bond for Cuesta College; not if but when

Kerry Wolny             1 more here.

Postal Service needs flexibility to achieve financial stability

John Ashbaugh             1 more here.

Fuzzy math should not obscure real progress by SLO City

Ed Waage             1 more here.

APCD dunes study is flawed

Judythe Guarnera             1 more here.

How will we help our seniors in the future?

Joanne Tarkington             1 more here.

Where is my SLO County midwife?

Richard Salzman             1 more here.

Consider municipal banks

Julian Crocker             1 more here.

Where is the story?

William Pelfrey             1 more here.

SLO County redistricting plans violate laws

Aaron Salmon             1 more here.

Defending San Luis Obispo firefighters

Rob Farino             1 more here.

An Open Letter to the SLO City Council and the Citizens For SLO

Steve Bartowski             1 more here.

Abel Maldonado dividing point among Republicans

Preston Kincaid             1 more here.

Will the real criminal please stand up?

Joe Sparks             1 more here.

What next for Los Osos?

Glen Justice             1 more here.

Remembering George Ramos

Bill Carrick             1 more here.

Karl Rove accused of political amnesia

Wlliam Searcy             1 more here.

Forgive Dan De Vaul

Andy Caldwell             1 more here.

The truth about COLAB

Victor Dricks             1 more here.

NRC inspects Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

Walter Reil             1 more here.

Education call to arms

Jacqueline Delaney             1 more here.

In light of current economic standing, nonprofits find new ways to boost budget

Jim Hill             1 more here.

Hill explains Oceano resignation

John Borst             1 more here.

Stop the rate increase

Roxanne Carr             1 more here.

What Happened to the CalPERS Home Loan Program?

Cindy Sage             1 more here.

An open letter to Sam Blakeslee

SLO Chamber staff             1 more here.

Chamber releases president/CEO salary, benefits data

Bob Neumann             1 more here.

Are you prepared for a disaster?

Richard P. McKee             1 more here.

This open government week is a call to arms

Richard Krumholz             1 more here.

sloRecent U.S. Highway 101 upgrades in SLO County bring corridor needs into focus

Kena Burke             1 more here.

New health insurance options for children

Judy Vick             1 more here.

Letter to Supervisor Hill and the County Board of Supervisors

Kathleen Aragon             1 more here.

Concerned over water rate increase in Atascadero

Peg Pinard             1 more here.

Historic neighborhoods at risk in San Luis Obispo

Mary Golden             1 more here.

Passage of Proposition 21 is crucial

Susan Mullen             1 more here.

When in doubt, just let go

Jim Roberts             1 more here.

Time to help foster youth in California

Woody Goulart             1 more here.

Deciding the future of Cal Poly journalism

Jim Reed             1 more here.

Time to clean house in Paso Robles

Andrew Christie             1 more here.

What Would Proposition 23 Cost Us?

Leslie Ramsey Halls             1 more here.

Singing the San Luis baseball blues

Nell Langford             1 more here.

Political fun and games in Oceano

Jason Tewell             1 more here.

Why is CALPERS hurting local pharmacies?

Rachel Lynn Scherz             1 more here.

If it takes a village–then you better build a hut for the therapist

Alicia Priske Cashman             1 more here.

My brother decided he wanted to sing

Maggie Urias             1 more here.

Our Farmers Market food fight

Pedro Nava             1 more here.

Voting No on Maldonado

Greg Kudlick             1 more here.

Certainly not California

Ray Weymann             1 more here.

The climate change challenge

Joey Racano             1 more here.

The politics of pollution

Alexi Jenkins             1 more here.

What price glory?

Adam Montiel             1 more here.

Wine review: Sinor-LaVallee is Mr. Pinot

Chris Wren             1 more here.

Frenzied medly of hip-hop and punk-rock hits Pozo Saloon

Hilary Grant             1 more here.

Down the rabbit hole with Golden 1

Joseph Rankin             1 more here.

Zombie Healthcare

Jason Pambrun             1 more here.

Atascadero’s Sunken Gardens rife with crime

David Pecci             1 more here.

Background says a lot about Pismo Beach candidates

Joe Geever             1 more here.

Coastal conservation in Morro Bay

Leslie Halls             1 more here.

Vote no on Proposition 36

Marilyne Cleeves             1 more here.

Baldwin for Cuesta College

Margaret O'Hara Gordon             1 more here.

Vote out the incumbents

Gina Potthoff             1 more here.

Abel Maldonado’s mounting tax troubles

Matt Strzepek             1 more here.

San Luis Obispo City Council candidate promotes change

Jon Tatro             1 more here.

Paso Robles criminalizing homelessness

Mark Buchman             1 more here.

Vote yes on Proposition 38

Joe Schimandle             1 more here.

Legislatures breaking the backs of California businesses

Steve Hoch             1 more here.

Lawsuit challenges Paso Robles groundwater ordinance

Jose’ Freeman             1 more here.

Salinan tribal justice

TIM DONNELLY             1 more here.

Letter by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly to SLO County Social Services Director Lee Collins

Thomas Elias             1 more here.

Junk health insurance lawsuit

Adam Hill             1 more here.

Apology from Supervisor Adam Hill

Kathleen Welles             1 more here.

Our Supervisor Gibson

Allan Cooper             1 more here.

Ian Parkinson does not speak for me

David Brodie             1 more here.

Letter to the editor: Christianson supports a vibrant downtown

Nate Honeycutt             1 more here.

Discrimination at Cal Poly? Say it isn’t so, part two

Kathy Smith             1 more here.

Letter to the editor: Voters beware

Robert Davis             1 more here.

Morro Bay Friends of the Library gives thanks

Alex Harrison             1 more here.

Letter to the editor: State ranking system flawed

Karen Adams             1 more here.

Do not consolidate SLO County financial offices

Kara Blakeslee             1 more here.

Thanks to Wild Cherry Canyon supporters

Leann Seroka             1 more here.

A resident’s open letter to SLO County supervisors

Debbie Arnold             1 more here.

Strategic priorities for San Luis Obispo County

Warren Frankel             1 more here.

Debunking some common local water myths

Jim Griffin             1 more here.

Signs of a Failing Empire

William Frost             1 more here.

Plan for a balanced groundwater district

Bill Welles             1 more here.

Attention Morro Bay voters

Barry Le Bell             1 more here.

County failing to properly re-pave Los Osos

Union of Concerned Scientists             1 more here.

NRC fails to apply standard earthquake protocols to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

Carolee Krieger             1 more here.

Common sense use of water resouces

SAUNDRA MURRAY KING             1 more here.

Rally to free Karen Velie’s grandchildren

JEANNE BLACKWELL             1 more here.

Bruce Gibson orders a gag order on fracking opponents

Ron Crawford             1 more here.

Crowded women’s jail is big lawsuit threat

Susan Harvey             1 more here.

Pro Water Equity’s final days

Alliance For Nuclear Responsibility             1 more here.

Barbara Boxer grills NRC over Diablo Canyon

CAROL ROWLAND             1 more here.

Do not force a water district on Paso Robles

Sue Luft             1 more here.

Water district supporters criticize POWR and PR-WIN

KEVIN PEARSON             1 more here.

Letter to the editor: Setting the record straight

Curt Dubost             1 more here.

Let school administrators craft tenure compromise

STEVE SINTON             1 more here.

Steve Sinton sets the record straight

Andrew Carter             1 more here.

Carter wants SLO council to appeal judge’s decision

LINDA REYNOLDS             1 more here.

Phillips 66 rail project – explosive risks far outweigh the benefits

Leslie Sands             1 more here.

SLO County DA’s Office lacks civility

JODY LANGFORD             1 more here.

Dirty politics mars DA’s race

WALT FRENCH             1 more here.

Grover Beach should remain a general law city

SUE MCGOURTY             1 more here.

Open letter to Senator Monning,

MIKE BYRD             1 more here.

Lessons learned trudging the campaign trail

DARRYL GENIS             1 more here.

Alexander Gonzales’ attorney speaks out

AARON ARMSTRONG             1 more here.

Assault on fellow citizens, by what right?

CASANDRA APPLETON             1 more here.

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