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SLO County adopts budget with more than $5 million deficit

Written on 5 Jul, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 22 comments

By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 last month, with Supervisor Debbie Arnold dissenting, to adopt a budget with a deficit of more than $5 million. During budget negotiations, Arnold argued that amid the... (Continue reading)

Pismo Beach accused of attempting to swindle developer

Written on 3 Jul, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

By KAREN VELIE Pismo Beach officials are accused of attempting to swindle a developer by overcharging for fees on one property, and then running off a buyer of another parcel the city wants to buy from the same developer at... (Continue reading)

Was Kristin Smart’s body buried at Susan Flores’ Arroyo Grande home?

Written on 30 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

By KAREN VELIE Cutting-edge technology has led three experts in forensics to assert that at some point Kristin Smart’s body was buried in the backyard of Susan Flores’ home in Arroyo Grande. Paul Flores, Susan Flores’ son, murdered Smart during... (Continue reading)

Did Pismo Beach wait too long to close the slide?

Written on 28 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 15 comments

By KAREN VELIE After more than 30 people suffered spinal, tailbone and other injuries, the City of Pismo Beach permanently closed the Pier Plaza slide last week. Built as part of an $8.8 million pier revitalization project, the city opened... (Continue reading)

Central Coast cannabis business files countersuit against competitor

Written on 27 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 5 comments

By KAREN VELIE Central Coast-based Glass House Brands and owners Kyle Kazan and Graham Farrar of Santa Barbara filed a defamation lawsuit last week against a competitor who sued Glass House for the alleged illegal trafficking of cannabis. Two weeks... (Continue reading)

SLO County Grand Jury reveals nonprofit’s failures

Written on 26 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 14 comments
Homeless parking site

By KAREN VELIE A San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury report calls out a local government agency and a nonprofit for failing to accomplish tasks they were paid to perform at the county’s safe parking site on Oklahoma Avenue and... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles City Council rejects Bruce Gibson’s equity plan

Written on 22 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 17 comments

By KAREN VELIE Paso Robles City Council members on Tuesday rejected a change to the Paso Basin Groundwater Sustainability Plan proposed and penned by San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Bruce Gibson. In compliance with California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, four... (Continue reading)

Central Coast cannabis industry in crisis

Written on 21 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 14 comments

By KAREN VELIE Amid plummeting tax revenues in the cannabis industry, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties have taken different routes with one electing to lower taxes and ease regulations and the other voting for stricter enforcement. On Tuesday,... (Continue reading)

Hackers target San Luis Obispo County educators

Written on 20 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 2 comments

By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo County Office of Education was targeted in a cyberattack that has potentially exposed their employee’s personal financial information. Law enforcement is working to determine how the system was breached and what data was... (Continue reading)

Lawsuit accuses Central Coast retailer of trafficking cannabis

Written on 19 Jun, 2023 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 5 comments

By KAREN VELIE After years of whispered allegations, a recently filed lawsuit accuses the owner of five cannabis retail stores in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties of being the largest, or one of the largest, black marketeers of... (Continue reading)