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Santa Barbara doctor convicted of drug trafficking

Written on 29 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers, such as OxyContin, for “patients” – many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdoses – was convicted Friday of 79 drug trafficking charges,... (Continue reading)

San Luis Harbor District manager leaving

Written on 29 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

The Port San Luis Harbor District Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 on Thursday not to renew harbor manager Steve McGrath’s contract. His contract expires Nov. 30. [Tribune] After 10 years with the district, three fisherman board members voted against renewing... (Continue reading)

The sanitation district should finish what it started

Written on 28 Aug, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 9 comments

OPINION by MARK LONDON and PATRICIA PRICE We served on the nine member citizen committee selected by the board of the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District to select a contractor to review past management practices and develop a... (Continue reading)

Another SLO finance boss departing

Written on 28 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

Wayne Padilla, director of finance and information technology for the city of San Luis Obispo, has resigned his post. Padilla told CalCoastNews Friday he will be leaving Sept. 15 to take a job in Fresno in the private sector. Padilla... (Continue reading)

California bill calls for restrictions on releasing illegal immigrants

Written on 28 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 29 comments

As a response to the killing of Cal Poly grad Kathryn Steinle, Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill restricting transfers of illegal immigrants from federal to local custody. [LA Times] SB 57, authored by senators Bob Huff and Shannon Runner,... (Continue reading)

Manson follower again eligible for parole from CMC

Written on 28 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Prison officials have again found Manson family member Bruce Davis eligible for parole from the California Men’s Colony. Davis, 72, has been serving life sentences for two 1969 murders, as well as conspiracy to commit murder. He was not directly... (Continue reading)

1001 Ashley Madison users in SLO County

Written on 28 Aug, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 63 comments

By CALCOASTNEWS STAFF In San Luis Obispo County, of the 1001 participants on the hookup website Ashley Madison, 978 are men and 23 are women. The largest single occupation for local users is lawyer followed by doctor. Users include pastors,... (Continue reading)

Morro Bay councilman requests time off

Written on 28 Aug, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

Morro Bay Councilman Matt Makowetski is requesting up to 90 days off as he battles what he describes as a “very persistent eye infection.” In a letter to Mayor Jamie Irons, Makowetski said he has been battling the eye infection... (Continue reading)

Susan said, Cliff said

Written on 27 Aug, 2015 in Discovered, Featured | 2 comments

By KAREN VELIE Accomplished novelist Susan Branch’s latest work, a memoir very thinly disguised as fiction, provides readers a rare look under the covers and into the marriage and divorce of one of San Luis Obispo’s former prominent couples. Though... (Continue reading)

Corker’s bill turns the Constitution upside down

Written on 27 Aug, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 22 comments

OPINION By MATT KOKKONEN The Constitution of the United States of America was adopted 13 years after the Declaration of Independence of 1776. It established the fundamental law of our country. Let us consider Article ll, Section 2 which defines... (Continue reading)