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Written on 18 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | No comments

Do you enjoy reading CalCoastNews.com’s in-depth news and commentary? Do you like the investigative stories that the mainstream media often ignores until there is an arrest made or a press release provided? Now is your chance to make sure this... (Continue reading)

EFI ‘s Guth, Yaguda arrested on multiple fraud charges

Written on 16 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 11 comments

By KAREN VELIE and DANIEL BLACKBURN Beleaguered Estate Financial Inc. (EFI) principals Karen Guth and her son Joshua Yaguda were arrested Thursday morning on 26 felony charges. A parade of a dozen San Luis Obispo County Sheriff, District Attorney, and state vehicles... (Continue reading)

Plans afoot to shutter (finally) Morro Bay’s skyline-busting power plant

Written on 15 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 2 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN Officials at the Morro Bay Power Plant are planning to bring down the curtain on the 54-year-old facility and currently are telling city council members that “continued operation of the plant is unlikely” beyond 2015. Plant owner Dynegy’s representative... (Continue reading)

EFI UPDATE: Corporate criminals?

Written on 11 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 2 comments

By KAREN VELIE and DANIEL BLACKBURN In an attempt to explain the ongoing financial calamity created by Estate Financial Inc. (EFI), trustees recently held a meeting in which they frequently used the “F” word (fraud) and appeared to explain an apparent... (Continue reading)

Flow, baby, flow: Starbucks keeps water faucets wide open

Written on 8 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 4 comments

Starbucks calls it “the dipper well system.” You might call it a million and a half gallons of San Luis Obispo County water wasting down the drain each and every month.... (Continue reading)

Paso city computer pressed into service to slam citizen

Written on 7 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

At least one Paso Robles city computer was used to post on this Web site’s blog dozens of derogatory, revealing remarks and private information about a citizen in the aftermath of a recent CalCoastNews commentary on Paso Robles police practices.... (Continue reading)

A message for the birds: Avoid this no-fly zone

Written on 2 Oct, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 3 comments

Pigeons are dropping from the Atascadero skies, bleeding from the eyes and dying after allegedly being drugged by pest control workers ... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly Provost reassigned?

Written on 30 Sep, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | One comment

Cal Poly President Warren Baker announced that a Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost has been reassigned, on Monday. ... (Continue reading)

DUMPSTER CHRONICLES: Law, disorder, and the DA

Written on 27 Sep, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 4 comments

SECOND IN A SERIES By KAREN VELIE and DANIEL BLACKBURN A disengaged and reticent district attorney failed to investigate numerous complaints targeting fraudulent hard money lenders and big-name developers during the past 18 months, even as new and unsuspecting investors were being... (Continue reading)

COMMENTARY: Under Paso Robles’ wild’n’crazy “Big Tint”

Written on 24 Sep, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 12 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN and KAREN VELIE A businessman seeking equal justice is learning that tinted vehicle windows, tinted law enforcement, and tinted truth has put him squarely in the path of conflict with Paso Robles’ dancing police chief, Lisa Solomon. Last week,... (Continue reading)