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To SLO County, from your Muslim neighbors

Written on 6 Mar, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 18 comments

Letter to the editor from the Muslim Community of SLO Thank you for supporting the “Get to know your Muslim neighbors” event Feb. 24. The 600 attendees included many San Luis Obispo County leaders who represented the diverse groups of... (Continue reading)

SLO County supervisors weigh in on CEQA reform

Written on 5 Mar, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 12 comments
T. Keith Gurnee

OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE Late last month, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors considered the Planning Priorities Report as prepared by the Planning and Building Department that outlined what the department felt those priorities should be. That... (Continue reading)

Our awful sacred civic duty

Written on 2 Mar, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 24 comments

OPINION by MICHAEL F. BROWN The Democratic Party’s alternative left regressive movement is suffering Tea Party envy. Democrats, the mainstream media, self- styled Hollywood pundits, academics, and legacy baby “smart set” sophisticates from West Hampton Beach to Westwood demonize Tea... (Continue reading)

Undocumented children are part of our nation and need your support

Written on 2 Mar, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 55 comments

OPINION by ANDREA DEVITT In 2011, Jerry Brown signed the Dream Act, which made California the first state in our nation to allow undocumented students to apply for and receive state-administered college financial aid. This was groundbreaking legislation. Sadly, the applications... (Continue reading)

Imagining how Andrew Holland felt

Written on 28 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 9 comments

Letter to the editor by Sarah Jakle I was diagnosed with rapid cycling and mixed state bipolar disorder in 1997, at age 22. I felt like something was trying to claw its way out of my body, which I would... (Continue reading)

Staff hires mediators for city council meetings: Is it time for a divorce?

Written on 26 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 22 comments

OPINION by STEW JENKINS A special San Luis Obispo City Council meeting on Feb. 16 revealed such a serious rift between the city’s voters and its administration that professional mediators were hired to preside. The city originally had a commission... (Continue reading)

Water is worth fighting for

Written on 25 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 22 comments

OPINION by CINDY STEINBECK Protect Our Water Rights (POWR), a coalition of North County landowners, was formed for a single purpose from which we have not wavered – to protect our members’ legally predominant rights to reasonably use the water... (Continue reading)

SLO County planning priorities reconsidered

Written on 21 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 6 comments
T. Keith Gurnee

By T. KEITH GURNEE Today, Feb. 21, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will hear yet another report on “planning priorities” from its Planning Director James Bergman. Back in Oct. 2015, I had written the piece outlined below... (Continue reading)

For whom do Berkeley’s bells toll?

Written on 16 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 15 comments

OPINION by MIKE F. BROWN Editor’s note: A column by Republican Mike Brown will run in CalCoastNews every other Thursday, rotating with a column by Democrat Stew Jenkins. The Milo Yiannopoulos uprising at UC Berkeley on the evening of Feb.... (Continue reading)

Instead of Measure J, let’s try zero budgeting

Written on 15 Feb, 2017 in Featured, Opinion | 6 comments

OPINION by GORDON MULLIN Defeat of Measure J puts transportation projects at risk, a front page editorial by the Tribune’s own Stephanie Finucane, reminded me why I voted no on this tax measure last November. We were looking for money in... (Continue reading)