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CalPERS tops San Bernardino creditor list

Written on 13 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

The city of San Bernardino owes $143.3 million to the California Public Employees Retirement System placing CalPERS at the top of the city’s creditor list. [Press-Enterprise] CalPERS, which runs a $234 billion pension system for more than 1.6 million state... (Continue reading)

New fees for rural SLO County residents

Written on 13 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

Later this week, thousands of San Luis Obispo County rural residents will begin receiving bills for a new annual “fire prevention fee” levied by the state of California and criticized by opponents as unnecessary and illegal. Gov. Jerry Brown proposed... (Continue reading)

Push to list great white sharks as endangered

Written on 13 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

Environmentalists have petitioned the state and federal governments to have great white sharks off the coast of California declared endangered. [LATimes] According to recent studies, about 220 adult and near-adult great white sharks inhabit the waters of California’s central coast... (Continue reading)

Atascadero man steals police car for bank robbery get away

Written on 11 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

An Atascadero man allegedly robbed a Chase Bank in Santa Maria, fought with an officer and stole a Santa Maria police car before injuring several people in a series of collisions. [KSBY] Phillip Craig Bailey, 43, allegedly told the teller... (Continue reading)

CHP officer arrested for DUI in Arroyo Grande

Written on 11 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

Arroyo Grande police arrested a Santa Maria area California Highway Patrol officer Wednesday morning for driving under the influence of drugs. Police arrested Michael Mallory, 37, after he hit two cars on Fair View Drive at about 6:30 a.m. Officers... (Continue reading)

Blakeslee’s bid for the governor’s office?

Written on 10 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

Sam Blakeslee said he was putting political aspirations aside  and planned to work at a nonprofit focused on promoting common-sense solutions to big policy problems vexing Sacramento. [LATimes] However, an early strategic plan for the California Reform Institute shows a... (Continue reading)

SLO homeless win big in ticketing battle

Written on 10 Aug, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 21 comments

By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo City Council agreed Thursday to dismiss all tickets given this year to homeless residents for sleeping in their vehicles. In April, attorneys Saro Rizzo and Stew Jenkins filed a lawsuit accusing the city of... (Continue reading)

Gangster sought in Paso Robles shooting

Written on 10 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 29 comments

Paso Robles police are seeking a reputed gang member in connection with the July 27 shooting at JnJ’s Liquors, said Lt. Ty Lewis Thursday. An exchange of gunfire between several individuals was the result of dissension between a King City... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles man allegedly kidnapped 12-year-old girl

Written on 9 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

Police arrested a 41-year-old Paso Robles man on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping and molesting a 12-year-old Saint Helena girl. The girl’s mother reported her daughter missing From Saint Helena on July 28. Investigators suspected the mother’s ex-boyfriend Juan DeAquino had... (Continue reading)

Pols ponder private pension plan

Written on 9 Aug, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A controversial measure establishing this country’s first state-run retirement system for private-sector employees ran into a buzz saw of opposition Wednesday in its first test in the California Assembly. (San Francisco Chronicle) Financial service, insurance and business groups weighed in... (Continue reading)