Josh Friedman
Writer Josh Friedman may or may not live in San Luis Obispo County.
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Cal Poly sputters to football finish
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The Cal Poly football team fell behind 35-3 on the Moriarty Enterprises scoreboard Saturday afternoon and lost 35-22 in its lone opportunity left to prove worthy of a playoff berth. The Mustangs dropped its final home game of the season to the third-ranked Eastern Washington Eagles in front of a far from […]... (Continue Reading)
Employees fleeing San Luis Obispo
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The city of San Luis Obispo pays its workers about $100,000 a year on average and boasts a reputation as “the happiest city in America,” yet it struggles to retain employees, particularly high-ranking ones. Since January 2010, when City Manager Katie Lichtig took over as the city’s executive, 96 full-time employees have […]... (Continue Reading)
Gibson plants 500 trees while calling for ag moratorium
By KAREN VELIE and JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Bruce Gibson planted 500 new citrus trees on his rural Cayucos property several months ago while pushing to impose tough water conservation measures on agriculturalists in the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. Neighbors in rural Cayucos say that while they have been struggling to water […]... (Continue Reading)
Homeless man sues CAPSLO over bed bug infestation
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A homeless man filed suit Tuesday against two San Luis Obispo nonprofits for illnesses he suffered following a bed bug infestation at a homeless shelter the organizations own and operate. Bed bugs bit Jeff Stone during his July stay in the Maxine Lewis Memorial Homeless Shelter in San Luis Obispo. The bites […]... (Continue Reading)
Morro Bay city attorney’s job back on chopping block
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Morro Bay City Council members have set special meeting for Monday to discuss terminating city attorney Rob Schultz. Schultz and City Manager Andrea Lueker have been battling to keep their jobs since September 11, when Mayor Jamie Irons called a special council meeting to discuss firing the city’s top two executives. Though […]... (Continue Reading)
Supreme Court tosses Santa Maria groundwater rights case
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the disputed Santa Maria Groundwater Basin management plan, ending 16 years of costly litigation over water supplies in Northern Santa Barbara County and Southern San Luis Obispo County. The Santa Maria Groundwater Basin lies underneath much of the northern and southern sections […]... (Continue Reading)
SLO management snubs policy critic
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Amid allegation of financial inadequacies, San Luis Obispo’s assistant city manager ordered the city clerk to leave the name of an outspoken applicant for a position on the Investment Oversight Committee off a staff report for Tuesday’s meeting. San Luis Obispo business owner and former mayoral candidate Steve Barasch regularly addresses the […]... (Continue Reading)
Los Osos sewer contractor dumping millions of gallons of water into Morro Bay
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Every three days, contractor W.A. Rasic dumps more water into Morro Bay than an Olympic-size pool can hold. It’s part of the Los Osos Wastewater Project, putting in a sewer system for the area. As workers dig trenches for the sewers, groundwater rises to fill them. The water has to be removed […]... (Continue Reading)
Hill casts deciding vote for CAPSLO contract
By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill cast the deciding vote last week to approve a contract of more than $360,000 for the organization that employs his fiancée. Hill often abstains or recuses himself when the Board of Supervisors votes on contracts for the Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo, which […]... (Continue Reading)
CAPSLO in line to receive homeless parking monopoly
BY KAREN VELIE and JOSH FRIEDMAN The San Luis Obispo City Council is slated to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that will require private property owners who allow homeless individuals to sleep in their vehicles overnight to bring in Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo (CAPSLO) to manage the program. Current ordinances make it […]... (Continue Reading)
