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6 great places to celebrate New Year’s Eve on the Central Coast

Written on 27 Dec, 2016 in Discovered, Featured | 7 comments

With New Year’s Eve fast approaching, it is time to finalize your plans for welcoming the New Year in style. On the Central Coast, there are so many fantastic places to celebrate the passing of one year and the arrival... (Continue reading)

Two die in plane crash near Fresno

Written on 27 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A small experimental aircraft barely made it off a northwest Fresno runway Monday afternoon before crashing, snapping in half and landing partially submerged in the San Joaquin River. Both people on board died. [KFSN] The single-engine Express S-90 plane took... (Continue reading)

California to work with foreign countries on climate change policy

Written on 27 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

California Gov. Jerry Brown and leaders in the state Legislature are vowing to go around the incoming Trump administration and work directly with other nations and states in order to defend and strengthen California’s climate change policies. [New York Times]... (Continue reading)

SLO YMCA trying to keep out sex offenders

Written on 27 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

The San Luis Obispo County YMCA is attempting to prevent sex offenders from accessing its gym. [KSBY] Starting in 2017, the YMCA will conduct background checks on all members and applicants. The local YMCA will use the National Sex Offender... (Continue reading)

California’s new laws for 2017

Written on 26 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

The New Year is right around the corner and with it comes new laws about hands-free cell phones, minimum wage, drinking alcohol at beauty shops and many other issues. Here are some of the laws that will likely impact California... (Continue reading)

Monning, Cunningham push for water board loan to Paso Robles

Written on 26 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Correction: The recycled water is intended to go to the agricultural community, not to an agricultural facility. In a display of bipartisanship, Central Coast representatives Democratic State Senator Bill Monning and Republican Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham are asking the State Water... (Continue reading)

California synagogue smeared with feces at start of Hanukkah

Written on 26 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A Santa Monica rabbi arrived at his synagogue early on Sunday, the first morning of Hanukkah, and found the front window smeared with feces and rice. The vandalism was on display in close proximity to the synagogue’s menorah. [LA Times]... (Continue reading)

Motorcyclist dies in Christmas Day crash near Arroyo Grande

Written on 26 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

A motorcyclist died on Christmas Day following a crash on Los Berro Road near Stanton Street in rural Arroyo Grande. Shortly before 4 p.m., two motorcyclist were driving on Los Berros Road when the crash occurred. The second motorcycle was... (Continue reading)

Man arrested, charged with driving under the influence of caffeine

Written on 24 Dec, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

After a man cut him off, an agent of the state arrested the man for driving under the influence in Solano County. [Guardian] Even though a blood test provided negative results for alcohol, meth, opioids and cocaine, the Solano County... (Continue reading)

Off limits: Of Mice and Men and the death penalty

Written on 24 Dec, 2016 in Featured, Opinion | 15 comments

OPINION by STEPHEN COOPER Seventy years after its publication, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men continues to stimulate debate, pro and con, about the death penalty. But justifying capital punishment was the last thing on the mind of the author,... (Continue reading)