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COMMENTARY: Fiscal greed, information need

Written on 12 Mar, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | No comments

Last month, the Harvard Political Review suggested there “is no doubt that if journalists can no longer fill their role as the public’s watchdog, the media’s already-declining reputation among the public will suffer.”... (Continue reading)

Attorney clamps down on city officials

Written on 10 Mar, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 7 comments

By KAREN VELIE Atascadero City Attorney Brian Pierik has been dishing out advice to city officials that some consider misleading regarding disclosure of e-mails from their personal accounts. Also, the city attorney cited the anti-secrecy Brown Act as his reason for excluding... (Continue reading)

Area lawmakers go easy on the perks

Written on 10 Mar, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | One comment

By DANIEL BLACKBURN This county’s two state lawmakers, both millionaires, were modest in their acceptance of gifts and free travel from lobbyists and special interest groups during the past year, according to documents made public today by the Fair Political Practices... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly/Saudi update: Blakeslee ‘very disturbed’

Written on 6 Mar, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 3 comments

By KAREN VELIE A controversial Cal Poly/Saudi proposal has a state lawmaker “very disturbed” and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has stepped up pressure on Cal Poly President Warren Baker to take a closer look at the intended Engineering College collaboration. A... (Continue reading)

COMMENTARY: The truth about Prince Harry and Sandy Duerr

Written on 3 Mar, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 5 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN The major media’s collegial conspiracy to hide the fact of Britain’s Prince Harry’s frontline military service in Afghanistan says much about the sad state of journalism everywhere. And what, you might be wondering, does that have to do with,... (Continue reading)

San Miguel Ranch One man’s dream is nightmare for others

Written on 29 Feb, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 2 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN When Brent Grizzle first gazed at what he would later describe as the “gently rolling contours” around the tiny North County town of San Miguel, the developer would later note that he “immediately recognized the special potential” of... (Continue reading)

A growing flood of North County water concerns

Written on 29 Feb, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | One comment

By DANIEL BLACKBURN Water has been a major concern of North County residents ever since the mid 1990s, when vineyards started multiplying like tipsy rabbits and housing projects were being approved by local government as fast as they could be proposed. That... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly/Saudi project update: Dissent growing

Written on 28 Feb, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 4 comments

BY DAN BLACKBURN AND KAREN VELIE An attempt by a group of Cal Poly professors to derail the Engineering College’s proposed collaboration with a Saudi Arabia university has itself been rebuffed, at least temporarily. Members of the Academic Senate tried... (Continue reading)

Cuesta handcuffed by big contract buyouts

Written on 26 Feb, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | 3 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN AND KAREN VELIE Cuesta College’s current accreditation woes are exacerbated by several six-figure settlements being paid to former administrators, and morale among faculty and other employees is said to be dangerously deteriorating. Threats to the community college’s accreditation –... (Continue reading)

Storm winds as environmental vigilante? County questions billboard rebuilding

Written on 21 Feb, 2008 in Uncovered SLO | One comment

By DANIEL BLACKBURN Powerful winds ripping across San Luis Obispo County in recent weeks battered, bent and broke numerous billboards along the Highway 101 and Highway 1 corridors, and now county officials are considering denying replacement of damaged signs. The county’s enforcement... (Continue reading)