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Man dumped from dumpster into garbage truck in Santa Maria

Written on 20 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Buried in a pile of trash, he was being hauled away en route to the landfill, but then Santa Maria firefighters came to his rescue. A man who was inside a dumpster in Santa Maria became trapped... (Continue reading)

SLO County restaurants offering Christmas meals to go

Written on 19 Dec, 2020 in Discovered, Featured | 2 comments

Want a restaurant-quality meal to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your home in San Luis Obispo County? While taking a break this holiday season, you can support a local restaurant. Here’s a list of area restaurants and caterers... (Continue reading)

SLO City Council gives top two employees 9.24% pay raises

Written on 19 Dec, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 50 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Amid a pandemic-driven global economic crisis, and shortly following the passage of a sales tax hike, the San Luis Obispo City Council voted to give approximately $20,000 raises, as well as benefit increases, to each of the... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo County’s declining population

Written on 19 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County’s population declined over the last fiscal year, while statewide growth fell to a record low rate, as California is on the verge of a population decline. Between July 1, 2019 and July 1,... (Continue reading)

More than 4,000 Cal Poly students moving back to the campus

Written on 18 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

Despite requests from Cal Poly faculty and staff to have students learn remotely until the current outbreak of coronavirus is under control, university administrators are moving approximately 4,500 students into campus housing during the first week of January. Since July... (Continue reading)

Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham seeks to remove Newsom’s emergency powers

Written on 18 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham introduced a bill on Thursday to limit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ’s ability  to unilaterally enact or change laws or regulations 60 days after an emergency is declared under the California Emergency Services Act. If passed, Cunningham’s bill,... (Continue reading)

SLO County ICU availability drops, hospital leaders concerned

Written on 17 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

While the state reported the Southern California region is at 0% intensive care unit (ICU) availability on Thursday, San Luis Obispo County has approximately 40% ICU beds unused. The Southern California region includes medical facilities in Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles,... (Continue reading)

Marian Regional Medical Center frontline staff receives coronavirus vaccine

Written on 17 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

An infectious disease specialist at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria was the first of many physicians, nurses, and frontline support staff on the Central Coast to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Chief Nursing Officer Candice Monge administered the vaccine... (Continue reading)

California woman receives unemployment in U.S. senator’s name

Written on 17 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Federal prosecutors charged three California women involved in two unemployment benefit fraud schemes that netted over $400,000. Two of the women were involved with inmate fraud while a third was a former Employment Development Department employee who impersonated a U.S.... (Continue reading)

California orders 5,000 body bags and refrigeration trucks on standby

Written on 16 Dec, 2020 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 36 comments

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state had ordered 5,000 more body bags and placed dozens of refrigerated trucks on standby as the state set a record for daily deaths from the coronavirus. On Tuesday, 290 people in California died... (Continue reading)