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October, 2014

A crooked road to Arroyo Grande?

Written on 21 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 255 comments

Editor’s note: The Arroyo Grande ordinance limiting how the mayor and city council members may legally interact with city staff is at the bottom of this story. By KAREN VELIE and DANIEL BLACKBURN Business owners and city staffers in Arroyo... (Continue reading)

Environmental group sues Cambria CSD over water project

Written on 21 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County environmental group has filed a lawsuit against the Cambria Community Services District, alleging that the district has breached state law in rushing through its approximately $9 million emergency water supply project. The... (Continue reading)

Third Lompoc police officer arrested this year

Written on 21 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Lompoc police officer accused of assaulting his girlfriend on Sunday, marking the third arrest of a member of the Lompoc Police Department this year. [KEYT] Deputies responded to call from a neighbor about... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria man goes on criminal binge in Paso Robles

Written on 21 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

A Santa Maria man held up an elderly woman at gunpoint, rammed his car into her vehicle and smashed the window of another vehicle, prior to Paso Robles police arresting him Saturday afternoon. Around 1:40 p.m., police received a report... (Continue reading)

Feds using Facebook to catch drug offenders

Written on 21 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs | One comment

Facebook is ordering the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to stop using fake profiles on its social media site to conduct investigations. [ABC News] The DEA is currently facing a lawsuit from a New York woman who alleges the agency used... (Continue reading)

Why I oppose the Arroyo Grande City Charter

Written on 20 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 26 comments

OPINION By JIM HILL The passage of Arroyo Grande City Charter, Measure C-14 on city ballots, would make two fundamental changes from the general law requirements that are not in residents’ interests. First, as explicitly stated in Section 302 of... (Continue reading)

Investigators considering several scenarios in Margay Edwards death

Written on 20 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Investigators are considering several possible causes in the death of  Margay Edwards of Los Osos, including the possibility that she was not the victim of a homicide, a Nevada detective said. [KSBY] Nye County Detective Joe McGill said the evidence... (Continue reading)

Firefighters rescue hikers from Bishop Peak

Written on 20 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

Two fire agencies teamed up with an air rescue service to save a couple hikers who lost track of time and their location Saturday evening on Bishop Peak in San Luis Obispo. Around 8 p.m., the San Luis Obispo Fire... (Continue reading)

Another back-room romance: government and local media

Written on 19 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 61 comments

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” — Philosopher and linguist Noam Chomsky OPINION By DANIEL BLACKBURN It used to be that citizens who had the nerve to... (Continue reading)

Housekeeper accosted and flashed at SLO Motel 6

Written on 19 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Police arrested a 32-year-old San Luis Obispo man after he allegedly accosted a housekeeper at the Motel 6 on Calle Joaquin in San Luis Obispo on Saturday afternoon, according to police. Shortly after 1 p.m., Benjamin Kuhzarani allegedly entered a... (Continue reading)