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City of SLO cuts deal with Airbnb on tax collection

Written on 1 Aug, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Following the lead of the county, the city of San Luis Obispo has struck a deal with the popular online rental platform Airbnb on collecting transient occupancy tax and additional assessments imposed upon short-term home renters. [Cal Coast Times] The... (Continue reading)

SLO falls short on addressing climate change

Written on 31 Jul, 2018 in Featured, Opinion | 26 comments

OPINION by DAVID BRODIE and ALLAN COOPER Since San Luis Obispo’s City Council hired a sustainability coordinator and formed a Green Team, we have not seen the city initiate one new prescriptive or incentivized mitigation affecting the built environment that... (Continue reading)

Jessica Allred sentenced to state prison for fatal DUI crash

Written on 31 Jul, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A former San Luis Obispo resident was sentenced Monday to four years in state prison for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and two counts of DUI resulting in injury. Judge Craig van Rooyen gave Jessica Lea Allred the maximum sentence for... (Continue reading)

Poor planning is destroying SLO

Written on 28 Jul, 2018 in Featured, Opinion | 10 comments

Opinion by Ben DiFatta I was driving through San Luis Obispo at about 2 p.m.on a Thursday on my way to a doctor’s visit when I hit just about every red light making me almost late for my appointment. I... (Continue reading)

ACLU’s annual civil rights event in SLO

Written on 29 Mar, 2018 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

The San Luis Obispo Chapter of the ACLU is hosting its bi-annual general meeting on March 31 (this Saturday) at the San Luis Obispo Library’s Community Room located at the corner of Palm and Osos Street, an event in which... (Continue reading)

Protesters rally over torture death at the SLO County Jail

Written on 18 Mar, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

Dozens of protesters gathered Saturday afternoon outside the San Luis Obispo courthouse seeking the resignation of Sheriff Ian Parkinson and District Attorney Dan Dow. The rally follows the release of a video that confirmed earlier CalCoastNews reports regarding the death... (Continue reading)

Fire destroys commercial building in SLO

Written on 1 Mar, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A fire destroyed a commercial building in San Luis Obispo early Thursday morning. [Cal Coast Times] At about 3:30 a.m., a fire broke out in a building on Johnson Avenue and Southwood Drive. Firefighters arrived at the scene within four... (Continue reading)

The impending demise of the new Progressives

Written on 28 Feb, 2018 in Featured, Opinion | 26 comments
T. Keith Gurnee

OPINION by KEITH GURNEE The stunning rise of the local new Progressive movement looks like it may be matched only by its pending rapid decline. Its cause? An emerging public perception of the movement’s hypocrisy, it’s single-minded ideology, and its... (Continue reading)

Court provides tools to thwart a run-away city council

Written on 27 Feb, 2018 in Featured, Opinion | 3 comments

OPINION of STEW JENKINS The day after the San Luis Obispo City Council gave Broad and Chorro Street residents the middle finger replacing their parking and auto access with a “bicycle boulevard,” the First District Court of Appeal gave voters... (Continue reading)

SLO considering three recreation pot shops

Written on 20 Feb, 2018 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

San Luis Obispo’s city staff is recommending that SLO allow up to three brick and mortar marijuana dispensaries under new pot regulations that are currently being drafted. [Cal Coast Times] If the regulations are passed, the city of SLO could... (Continue reading)