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Rate payers on the hook for PG&E’s seismic study

Written on 18 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

The State Public Utilities Commission agreed last week to allow PG&E to pass the $64 million cost of a planned seismic survey near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant on to its customers. [KSBY] The current proposed plans are to use... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo firefighter’s ethics under fire

Written on 18 Sep, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 38 comments

By KAREN VELIE A former friend and neighbor of John Ryan Mason testified Monday that the San Luis Obispo firefighter had an affair with his wife, and then asked him if they should fight about the illicit relationship. Mason is... (Continue reading)

Thief steals San Luis Obispo police radar detector

Written on 18 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

San Luis Obispo police may get caught speeding by a suspect they happen to be pursuing. A radar gun disappeared from a pouch inside a parked, police motorcycle left unattended around 1:40 am Sunday, the police department said. Police reported... (Continue reading)

National media notes racist joke gaffe

Written on 17 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 59 comments

A front-page blunder by the county’s local daily newspaper wrongly laying the blame for a Creston Classic Rodeo racist joke has provoked national attention from TheGrio.com, a division of NBC News. And the story is about to go viral. The... (Continue reading)

Mothers for Peace support a delay in seismic testing

Written on 17 Sep, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 7 comments

OPINION By MOTHERS FOR PEACE San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace supports gathering seismic information about the earthquake faults near Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster and PG&E’s application to renew the licenses, seismic... (Continue reading)

Pismo Beach reject LAFCO’s request for money

Written on 17 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

The city of Pismo Beach will not help pay the cost of fighting a lawsuit filed by a developer against members of the San Luis Obispo County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO). The suit contends members of the board abused... (Continue reading)

Flu cure on the horizon?

Written on 17 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Researchers have identified an antibody that not only prevents test animals from contracting the influenza virus, but also cures already infected rodents. [Nature] By examining the flu virus in its crystalline, or 3-D form, researchers from the Scripps Research Institute... (Continue reading)

Missing Los Osos woman found injured from crash

Written on 16 Sep, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 18 comments

By KAREN VELIE A missing Los Osos woman was found injured in a barn near Ragged Point earlier today, a week after she crashed her truck into a light pole. A man renting the barn discovered Suzanne Kay Smith, 59,... (Continue reading)

Drunk driver crashes into mobile home

Written on 16 Sep, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

An alleged drunk driver crashed his car into a mobile home in San Luis Obispo early Sunday morning, police said. Phillip Garcia, 27, was driving westbound at a high rate of speed on Tank Farm Road. He attempting to turn... (Continue reading)

Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, event photos

Written on 15 Sep, 2012 in Eye on the Coast, Featured | No comments

Madonnari, or street painters, transformed San Luis Obispo’s Mission Plaza. Artists used pastels on pavement to create hundreds of vibrant and colorful, large-scale images on Sept. 8 and 9. The annual festival benefits the Children’s Creative Project, a nonprofit arts... (Continue reading)