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Beware the SLO County Progressive’s power play

Written on 19 Feb, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 13 comments
T. Keith Gurnee

OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE After taking over the city councils of San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay, Grover Beach, and Arroyo Grande in 2018, the SLO County Progressives, bankrolled by the marijuana industry, have their crosshairs firmly on our Board... (Continue reading)

Decency and deviancy, who’s abiding Adam Hill

Written on 11 Feb, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 14 comments

OPINION by MIKE BROWN The recent disclosure of San Luis Obispo County District Three Supervisor Adam Hill’s salacious emails to KVEC Radio host Dave Congalton requires immediate and concrete investigation by the Board of Supervisors. This is simply the latest... (Continue reading)

Fire tax fearmongering peppers Oceano election information

Written on 10 Feb, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 16 comments

OPINION by JULIE TACKER Oceano Community Services District has embarked upon the process to implement a $180 annual flat-rate special fire tax on its property owners. All registered voters will have a say, the measure will need two-thirds voter approval... (Continue reading)

SLO County Supervisor Adam Hill is a hypocrite

Written on 4 Feb, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 17 comments

OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE On the first of this month, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill sent out a vicious email blast from his personal computer excoriating his opponent Stacy Korsgaden. Then, after attacking her, he closed by... (Continue reading)

Days of yore in the San Luis Obispo County courthouse

Written on 3 Feb, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | One comment

OPINION by JIM DUENOW After graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School and serving three years as a JAG officer at Oxnard Air Force Base, I came to San Luis Obispo in 1965. I went to work for a... (Continue reading)

Young cat euthanized, don’t make the same mistake

Written on 2 Feb, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

OPINION by CARA LANGTON-LEANDRO On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 20, my daughter and son-in-law took their 4-year-old male cat to a local San Luis Obispo County veterinarian for medical treatment as the cat had twice lost control of his... (Continue reading)

SLO Tribune’s growing credibility problem

Written on 22 Jan, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 29 comments

OPINION by RICHARD SCHMIDT What happens when a community’s newspaper abdicates its responsibility to watchdog local government and seek the truth? You get the messy arrogant cliquish partisan exclusionary faction-serving politics we have in San Luis Obispo instead of government... (Continue reading)

Oceano board needs to respect free speech

Written on 16 Jan, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 4 comments

OPINION by CYNTHIA REPLOGLE Since I joined the Oceano Community Services District (OCSD) Board in 2018, I’ve been working to make our meetings more accessible and inclusive. I firmly believe in participatory democracy and that government bodies should always act... (Continue reading)

Don’t let unscrupulous cannabis growers hijack SLO County

Written on 14 Jan, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 4 comments

OPINION by DREW VAN DUREN An open letter to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors: The unscrupulous cannabis hijack of the Board of Supervisor’s Dec. 17 public comment period served only to 1) avoid conforming cannabis operations with... (Continue reading)

Government watchdog challenges career politician

Written on 3 Jan, 2020 in Featured, Opinion | 8 comments

OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL I identified as a traditional democrat for half my life because then and now, I wanted the little guy to have a fighting chance! This has to do with my life experience. I grew up relatively... (Continue reading)