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Air pollution control board approves Oceano dunes rule

Written on 17 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District voted 7-4 with one abstention to approve a new regulation that requires state parks to reduce particulate matter blowing from the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area or face fines of... (Continue reading)

SLO Council approves $760,000 downtown renovation

Written on 17 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

The San Luis Obispo City Council approved a $761,500 renovation project of a two-block stretch of Higuera Street downtown to be started next year. By a 3-2 vote Tuesday, the Council awarded a $646,000 contract to the Madonna Construction Company to... (Continue reading)

CSU raises tuition 9% amid student protests

Written on 17 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

California State University trustees voted to raise tuition by 9 percent on Wednesday, while outside the system’s Long Beach headquarters CSU police violently clashed with protesters. [SanFranciscoChronicle] Police used pepper spray on student protesters. In the end, a glass entry... (Continue reading)

Transient attempts to burn Virgin Mary statue

Written on 16 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

A transient allegedly attempted to burn a statue of the Virgin Mary at the San Luis Obispo Mission shortly after morning mass on Tuesday. Surveillance video shows Daniel Pettigrew, 24, trying to start a fire at the base of the... (Continue reading)

Air quality district internal emails expose manipulations

Written on 15 Nov, 2011 in Uncovered SLO | 73 comments

(Editor’s note: This is the second in a multi-part series about questionable activities of the San Luis Obispo County Air Quality Control District. Part one was Air quality district’s bloated salaries. See Alleged flaws in the study at the bottom... (Continue reading)

Gangsters getting military training

Written on 15 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 29 comments

Federal officials are documenting a growing presence of gang members in the U.S. military, even while state financial support for local gang-busting and narcotics interdiction evaporates. The proliferation of organized criminal elements with military-trained members should raise red flags for law... (Continue reading)

Three arrested for mailbox thefts

Written on 15 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Police officers arrested three Bakersfield residents on Monday for allegedly breaking into and taking mail from outdoor mailboxes at two post offices in San Luis Obispo. [Tribune] Responding to a 911 call, police stopped a vehicle near the post office... (Continue reading)

New future for local taxation?

Written on 14 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Scattered electoral successes last week by locally-initiated revenue measures may be signaling a willingness by California voters to tax themselves — if they hear the right justifications. [SanFranciscoChronicle] Public agencies in varying jurisdictions across California, including counties, cities and school... (Continue reading)

Developers using environmental laws to fight the competition

Written on 14 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

To stop a competitor from building a project near a southern California university, a student housing firm used the state’s environmental quality laws as an effective cheap weapon of destruction. [LATimes] Conquest Student Housing has 17 buildings rented to USC... (Continue reading)

Air quality district’s bloated salaries

Written on 14 Nov, 2011 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 70 comments

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a multi-part series about questionable activities of the San Luis Obispo County Air Quality Control District.) They set hefty salaries for themselves and went looking for the money to meet the payroll. It’s not the... (Continue reading)