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OCSD misses election deadline

Written on 9 Aug, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 12 comments

OPINION By JULIE TACKER In January 2011, five Oceano residents, concerned about the Oceano Community Services District Board’s consideration of selling water to local developers or other cities, crafted an initiative petition.  In less than a week they gathered 577... (Continue reading)

Setting the record strait – DANA responds

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

OPINION By ALAN and HELEN DAURIO We are the Dana Adobe Nipomo Amigos (DANA) Board Co-Presidents. We are writing in response to the opinion column put forth by the Northern Chumash Tribal Council (NCTC). Our community needs to know the... (Continue reading)

Dana Adobe plans disrespects native culture

Written on 6 Aug, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 14 comments

OPINION By THE NORTHERN CHUMASH TRIBAL COUNCIL On Tuesday, August 7 the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will make a decision on a land use ordinance amendment and mitigated negative declaration applied for by the Dana Adobe Nipomo... (Continue reading)

Water conservation; an important part of life in California

Written on 31 Jul, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 5 comments

By JULIE TACKER In Los Osos, water conservation has now become tangled with the sewer saga and, like the project itself, the proposed $5 million water conservation plan as proposed would result in enormous costs, glaring inequities and generally a... (Continue reading)

Supervisors consider ordinance to jail their opponents

Written on 23 Jul, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 25 comments

OPINION By STEW JENKINS Besides the obvious lack of wisdom inherent in criminalizing someone performing an emergency landing of their airplane or hot air balloon on county owned vacant land, if enacted the ordinance being considered by the Board of... (Continue reading)

Oceano district doesn’t get it

Written on 20 Jul, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 10 comments

OPINION By JULIE TACKER If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?  If the Brown Act is not followed and no one is there to observe it, was... (Continue reading)

More and more people call the streets home

Written on 19 Jul, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 16 comments

OPINION By NOOZHAWK COLUMNIST KEN WILLIAMS Still again, harsh voices are raised against those who find the streets home. For some, there is an underlying assumption that the poor are, at best, a nuisance, and at worst, a threat. Certain... (Continue reading)

Down the rabbit hole with Golden 1

Written on 5 Jul, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 4 comments

OPINION By HILARY GRANT It’s not a pretty thought, but here goes, just the same: when I heard that an armed thug had handily made off with $4,000 from The Golden 1 Credit Union in SLO in May, I knew... (Continue reading)

Sanitation district needs an independent investigation

Written on 2 Jul, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

OPINION By SAN LUIS OBISPO SURFRIDER FOUNDATION Following the major sewage spill of December 2010 and news reports of water quality reporting irregularities at the waste water treatment plant of South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District (SSLOCSD), Surfrider Foundation... (Continue reading)

Abel Maldonado’s call to repeal Obamacare

Written on 29 Jun, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 74 comments

STATEMENT BY ABEL MALDONADO We are a nation built on the right to be free and the right to make choices for ourselves, and I believe that government should never force anyone to buy a service. The fundamental truth is... (Continue reading)