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A brickbat for the Tribune

Written on 8 Feb, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 15 comments

OPINION By KEITH GURNEE Shame on the Tribune’s editorial and Bruce Gibson’s Viewpoint rant for totally missing the mark on the leadership changes on the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors. Anyone who attended that meeting would have been... (Continue reading)

SLO County leadership change brings transparency and openness

Written on 7 Feb, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 5 comments

OPINION By ELSA DAWSON What happened at the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisor’s meeting the afternoon of Feb. 3? Approximately one hundred citizens, including several teenagers, filled the chambers awaiting a revote on the election of chair and... (Continue reading)

Mecham’s abdication cheered, chided

Written on 6 Feb, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 35 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN A bombshell announcement at Tuesday’s county supervisors’ board meeting has two of its members seething, two others grappling with their abrupt elevation to leadership stature, and its former chairman content with his unprecedented action. First District Supervisor... (Continue reading)

Video of San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Board coup

Written on 4 Feb, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 55 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Chairman Frank Mecham steps down, offers the board’s leadership to colleague Debbie Arnold, and the vice-chair to new supervisor Lynn Compton. Mecham’s unexpected move is not appreciated by fellow board members Adam... (Continue reading)

Supervisors to let Paso groundwater ordinance expire

Written on 4 Feb, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

On a 3-2 vote with supervisors Bruce Gibson and Adam Hill in the minority, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors chose Tuesday to abandon an ordinance that restricts water use in the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. In 2013,... (Continue reading)

Hill ousted; Arnold, Compton take leadership

Written on 3 Feb, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 100 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Amid allegations of sexism and a good old boys’ club, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Frank Mecham stepped down as board chairman in order to promote Supervisor Debbie Arnold to chair and Supervisor Lynn Compton to vice... (Continue reading)

McDonald’s a no-go in Los Osos

Written on 22 Jan, 2015 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

The dozens of Los Osos residents who protested the approval of a McDonald’s restaurant will not have to see one in their town after all. [Sierra2theSea] Last April, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted to let McDonald’s... (Continue reading)

Gibson, Hill get verbal lashings

Written on 14 Jan, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 72 comments

San Luis Obispo County residents teed off on supervisors Bruce Gibson and Adam Hill Tuesday morning, possibly swaying the board majority to rethink its decision to place Hill in a leadership role. Public speakers took aim at Gibson for manipulating... (Continue reading)

Did Gibson purposely doctor the agenda?

Written on 13 Jan, 2015 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 29 comments

BY KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Bruce Gibson’s last act as chairman of the board of supervisors was to shut down public comment and board discussion over Supervisor Adam Hill’s appointment to vice chair in violation of the... (Continue reading)

Open letter to Supervisor Frank Mecham

Written on 12 Jan, 2015 in Featured, Opinion | 10 comments

OPINION BY JULIE TACKER, I first want to say thank you for amending tomorrow’s meeting agenda to add public comment for the items that were on the Jan. 5 special meeting agenda. I also want to point out that this... (Continue reading)