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Arroyo Grande eyeing increases in taxes and fines to fill shortages

Written on 12 Jul, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 16 comments

By CCN STAFF The Arroyo Grande City Council is scheduled on Tuesday to move forward on a 1 percent sales tax increase, and approval of fines for people who do not wear face masks. Earlier this year, facing a $1.2... (Continue reading)

California Coastal Commission unfazed by air district’s changing dust excuses

Written on 9 Jul, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 13 comments

By KAREN VELIE The California Coastal Commission is moving ahead with plans to reduce sand blowing on the Nipomo Mesa, even though there appears to be almost no chance the mitigation efforts will be effective. In 2018, State Parks entered... (Continue reading)

SLO County supervisor checking into mental health facility

Written on 7 Jul, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 43 comments

By KAREN VELIE For the third time in less than three years, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill announced he is taking time off work to deal with mental health issues. Hill announced in a press release on Monday... (Continue reading)

Santa Barbara County Grand Jury blasts supervisors over marijuana laws

Written on 6 Jul, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 6 comments

By KAREN VELIE In a scathing report on Santa Barbara County’s cannabis regulations, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury lambasts county officials for behaving unethically, and creating rules that cost the county financially and compromise quality of life. “Santa Barbara... (Continue reading)

SLO County Supervisor Hill fails to attend most meetings

Written on 2 Jul, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 21 comments

By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill has repeatedly failed to show up to work, attend meetings, or respond to the media. Since March 1, Hill has failed to participate in 26 of the 33 board and... (Continue reading)

The regulators who cried wolf

Written on 29 Jun, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 30 comments

BY KAREN VELIE For more than a decade, San Luis Obispo County’s Air Pollution Control District (APCD) warned about silica dust blowing inland from the Oceano Dunes. It causes cancers, and lung and kidney disease. It was the result of... (Continue reading)

Atascadero Police Chief Jerel Haley retiring

Written on 26 Jun, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 8 comments

By KAREN VELIE After 29 years in law enforcement, Atascadero Chief of Police Jerel Haley announced on Friday that he plans to retire in October. Haley has served as Atascadero’s police chief for nine years. “Chief Haley has truly been... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande police chief retiring in July

Written on 26 Jun, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 10 comments

By Karen Velie Arroyo Grande Police Chief Beau Pryor announced Friday that he plans to retire in July, capping a 26-year career with the department. “I am very pleased to announce my planned retirement date with you,” Pryor said.”It has... (Continue reading)

Protests cost San Luis Obispo at least $250,000

Written on 24 Jun, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 41 comments

By KAREN VELIE The city of San Luis Obispo tallied some of the taxpayer costs related to a handful of recent protests. Those expenses come to $253,238, and do not include all the costs. One of the primary goals of... (Continue reading)

SLO County deputy shoots dog three times during suspected burglary

Written on 20 Jun, 2020 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 69 comments

By KAREN VELIE A San Luis Obispo County sheriff deputy who wrongly assumed a man was robbing a dry cleaners on June 15, shot the man’s dog three times. An Atacadero police officer then handcuffed the man’s wife, even though... (Continue reading)