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Dispatches: I left my heart

Written on 1 Dec, 2009 in Discovered | One comment

BY DAVID CONGALTON I write this from San Francisco, and you should be envious.  Most people I know hate LA, but no one says a discouraging word about the City by the Bay. San Francisco is truly one of the... (Continue reading)

No clear path to victory for gay marriage

Written on 1 Dec, 2009 in Daily Briefs | No comments

The effort to get same sex marriage on the California ballot in 2010 took a hit Monday. Rick Jacobs, the leader of the 700,000-member Courage Campaign, sent out an email announcing that after spending more than $200,000 on “qualitative research”... (Continue reading)

Retail sales up slightly for Black Friday

Written on 29 Nov, 2009 in Daily Briefs | No comments

Shoppertrak, a national consumer spending research group, reports that retail sales nationally  for “Black Friday,” supposedly the busiest retail day of the year, increased only 0.5 percent over 2008. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times cites research indicating 195 million shoppers... (Continue reading)

30 die on California highways over holiday

Written on 29 Nov, 2009 in Daily Briefs | One comment

The Los Angeles Times has the grim statistics for road fatalities throughout California over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Reported deaths were up this year over last Thanksgiving.... (Continue reading)

Thankful for Planned Parenthood

Written on 29 Nov, 2009 in Opinion | 5 comments

BY BILL DENNEEN Santa Maria, until just recently, had the highest teenage pregnancy rate of any city in the entire industrialized world. I called it a “pregnancy-epidemic”.  One of the reasons is all  local hospitals are Catholic-controlled thus not providing... (Continue reading)

New director for writers’ conference

Written on 28 Nov, 2009 in Daily Briefs | No comments

Tribune columnist Judy Salamacha has been named the new director of the annual Central Coast Writers’ Conference at Cuesta College. Salamacha replaces Cathe Olsen who resigned to accept a full-time librarian position. Salamacha’s column about Los Osos, Morro Bay and... (Continue reading)

Sunny Acres’s Dan De Vaul on Best of Good Morning SLO

Written on 28 Nov, 2009 in Screening Room | One comment

[youtube swPSTKqnsTA&hl 445 364] Sunny Acres owner Dan De Vaul Speaks before the San Luis Obispo Chamber, Good Morning SLO (4:29).  “On Oct. 22, 2009 at Good Morning SLO, he gave us his side of the story and told us... (Continue reading)

Lost couple discovered in San Luis Obispo County

Written on 28 Nov, 2009 in Daily Briefs | 5 comments

Good Samaritans find a missing Acton, California couple in San Luis Obispo County. [KCAL] On their way to Paradise, California, Edison Cook, 81, and his wife Isabel Cook, 73, took a wrong turn and ended up lost, separated, dehydrated and... (Continue reading)

Maldonado runs against history

Written on 28 Nov, 2009 in Daily Briefs | 3 comments

Our state senator Abel Maldonado may be up against his toughest competitor yet — history — should he win appointment as California’s Lt. Governor and try for re-election in 2010. Garry South, former Gray Davis strategist, writing in today’s LA... (Continue reading)

Jay Miller on borrowed time

Written on 27 Nov, 2009 in Daily Briefs | 19 comments

Federal prosecutors prompted a federal grand jury to look into the alleged criminal acts of Hurst financial principal Jay Miller. [Tribune] Miller is one of the subjects of a two-year racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud investigation that includes former... (Continue reading)