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March, 2017

California Democrats call for boosting financial aid to students

Written on 13 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

Democratic California lawmakers unveiled a plan Monday that would create the nation’s most generous college aid system, covering living expenses as well as tuition. [LA Times] The new program would cost an estimated $1.6 billion a year when fully implemented.... (Continue reading)

Special election on SLO rental inspections still looms

Written on 13 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Though the San Luis Obispo City Council is currently in the process of repealing the city’s controversial rental inspection ordinance, it appears the council must soon choose between adopting an alternative ordinance pushed by opponents of the inspection program and... (Continue reading)

Video shows Cal Poly police pinning man during disputed arrest

Written on 13 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 47 comments

Many Cal Poly students are enraged over footage showing university police pinning a 21-year-old man to the ground outside a San Luis Obispo liquor store. Friends of the suspect allege an undercover officer placed him in a chokehold and tackled... (Continue reading)

Adam Hill: “Forget civility”

Written on 12 Mar, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 13 comments
T. Keith Gurnee

OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE A few days ago, San Luis Obispo County District 3 Supervisor Adam Hill wrote “forget civility” on a Facebook post in response to an article by yours truly in the New Times last week. Interesting.... (Continue reading)

PG&E announces electricity rate increases

Written on 12 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

Pacific Gas and Electric raised rates on March 1 and has changed the way it charges customers. The changes will positively impact those in warmer areas of the Central Coast while increasing the bills of those in moderate climates. On... (Continue reading)

Man arrested for felony DUI crash in San Luis Obispo

Written on 12 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

San Luis Obispo police officers arrested a 27-year-old man Saturday morning on a felony DUI charge following a crash in San Luis Obispo that injured four people. At 1:29 a.m., Nicholas Adam Hembree was driving eastbound on Monterey Street when... (Continue reading)

Man allegedly kidnapped Pismo Beach officer

Written on 11 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

While running away from a Pismo Beach police officer, a man allegedly yanked the policeman inside a vehicle and then drove off with cop inside the car, according to documents filed in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court. [Tribune] On... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria man assaults officer on Cal Poly campus

Written on 11 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

After being stopped in a stolen vehicle, a Santa Maria man allegedly assaulted a Cal Poly police officer, then tried to run away. At about 12:47 a.m. Friday, an officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on the Cal... (Continue reading)

Building the bridge to a national health service

Written on 11 Mar, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 39 comments

OPINION by STEW JENKINS In their head-over-heals rush to throw the nation backwards, Republicans are about to provoke the California bear out of hibernation to build its own model for a national health service, like every other industrialized nation has... (Continue reading)

California and SLO County getting older

Written on 10 Mar, 2017 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

With a declining birth rate and rising life expectancy, California’s population will be getting older over the next several decades. By the year 2060, more than one quarter of the state population is projected to be 65 years or older.... (Continue reading)