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Save our Paso Robles schools

Written on 6 Mar, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 17 comments

OPINION by ALLEN DUCKWORTH The progressive left and teachers unions are using our schools to indoctrinate our children with their woke, socialist agenda. We need a few good men and women to ensure that our kids are trained to become... (Continue reading)

Assemblymember Addis’ bill spotlights failing disability system

Written on 1 Mar, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

OPINION by NICOLE DORFMAN I want to thank Assemblymember Dawn Addis for introducing AB 1147 to address the “failing” developmental disability system in California. The bill calls for reforming the $13-billion system, and for providing increased accountability and transparency in... (Continue reading)

California’s growing challenge of dog overpopulation

Written on 24 Feb, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 11 comments

OPINION by DAVE CONGALTON It’s tough to be a dog in California right now, especially if you’re unwanted, stashed away in a crowded cage with other unwanted dogs, hoping against hope to be adopted. Sadly, the odds are not in... (Continue reading)

Former Oceano CSD director dead at 64, she is remembered

Written on 21 Feb, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | No comments

Former Oceano Services District Director Mary Lucey died on Feb. 11. She was 64-years-old. Lucey and her 72-year-old wife Nancy MacNeil died within hours of each other. Opinion by ACT UP Los Angeles Oral History Project The ACT UP Los... (Continue reading)

Kudos to PG&E’s response to storm damage

Written on 21 Feb, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 4 comments

OPINION by GEORGE SULLIVAN PG&E’s plan was to replace a storm damaged customer distribution pole plus the aged transmission line pole sitting atop my hill in rural Santa Margarita. Having worked in another utility for over a half century much... (Continue reading)

Unintended consequences of the national energy policy

Written on 6 Feb, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 23 comments

OPINION by PAUL C. HERTEL On day one in office, our President Biden cancelled the Keystone Pipeline and set the tone for our national energy policy and his entire administration. The energy companies got the message. They knew that new... (Continue reading)

We are the parents

Written on 31 Jan, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 22 comments

OPINION by SARA SEMMES Even as a homeschooling mom in San Luis Obispo County, I still can’t help but feel compelled to stand up against what is going on in our public schools. It just plain feels wrong to the... (Continue reading)

Ukrainians deserve our help, support, gratitude

Written on 27 Jan, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 43 comments

Opinion by Dr. James Armstead When one considers the various elements of strategy, oft times the political and diplomatic aspects of war are wrongly relegated to a lesser position. This is brighter wise or correct and can only lead to... (Continue reading)

No legal options for keeping Diablo Canyon operating

Written on 25 Jan, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 10 comments

Opinion by SLO Mothers for Peace The technical staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Tuesday refused a request by Pacific Gas & Electric to resume reviewing a 2009 license renewal application the company formally withdrew from NRC... (Continue reading)

Does SLO County’s future water supply depend on a very fragile concept?

Written on 15 Jan, 2023 in Featured, Opinion | 13 comments

OPINION by DANIEL BLACKBURN Fifty years ago, my one-of-a-kind job was to promote the construction of a California water project then known as the Peripheral Canal. My efforts were spectacularly unsuccessful, as the object of my labors has yet to... (Continue reading)