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Phillips 66 rail spur project is wrong for SLO County

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 44 comments

OPINION By LAURANCE SHINDERMAN A little over two weeks ago, Phillips 66 released a re-circulated draft environmental impact report (DREIR) for the Phillips 66 Company rail spur extension project. The report addresses the proposed rail spur extension projects impacts on... (Continue reading)

Left Coast Luddites battle against free enterprise

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 40 comments

OPINION By ALEX ALEXIEV It has come to pass that Santa Barbara County has put on the ballot a ‘Measure P’ that, if voted in, would essentially do away with the oil and gas industry in that county. This at... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande Council attendees pick sides, the mayor or police

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 70 comments

By KAREN VELIE At Tuesdays Arroyo Grande City Council meeting, proponents and opponents of Mayor Tony Ferrara spoke out during public comment while three San Luis Obispo sheriff deputies and a police commander stood by in case of any altercations.... (Continue reading)

A reckoning for Councilman John Ashbaugh

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 38 comments

By KAREN VELIE In the aftermath of San Luis Obispo Councilman John Ashbaugh’s public tirade that included violating open meeting laws, San Luis Obispo City staff announced plans to discuss the violations at the Nov. 10 council meeting. Following months... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria girl allegedly kidnapped, molested

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Santa Maria police are investigating a report that a suspect kidnapped a young girl from a residential street and molested her. [KSBY] Officers received a report of a missing child on Sunday and managed to locate the girl. The girl... (Continue reading)

Man burned in suspicious Santa Maria house fire

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A Santa Maria resident suffered serious burns during a house fire Tuesday night that investigators have deemed suspicious. [KEYT] The fire broke out around 7 p.m. at a home in the 2400 block of North Bentley Avenue. It remains under... (Continue reading)

Heroin recovered from Ford Bronco in Oceano

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s narcotics detectives found approximately $30,000 worth of heroin inside a vehicle parked in Oceano Tuesday afternoon. An anonymous tip prompted the discovery, and a sheriff’s office K9 detected the heroin. About 230 grams of heroin... (Continue reading)

CAPSLO parking program becoming permanent

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

The Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo’s practice of allowing select homeless individuals to sleep in vehicles overnight at the Prado Day Center is becoming a permanent city-sanctioned program, despite fading interest among the homeless population. [Tribune] The San... (Continue reading)

Letter to the editor: SLO’s unfair permitting process

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 9 comments

OPINION By ALLAN COOPER When San Luis Obispo City staff denied, in January, a bar/tavern use permit at 1060 Osos Street, their rationale was as follows: “A new bar/tavern, the 64th license downtown…compounds the state of over concentration and thwarts... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo County hires new public works director

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

The County of San Luis Obispo announced Tuesday it has hired Wade Horton as its new public works director. Horton will be directly responsible for overseeing the operations of the public works department, which has approximately 190 full-time employees. Currently,... (Continue reading)