Mother Nature doesn’t play politics. Wherever you stand in the climate change debate, the last few months have provided plenty of anecdotal evidence to support an argument for or against global warming. Deniers might point to the frigid air freezing the East Coast and Southeast as a clear sign that the planet isn’t warming—you know, […]
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Tony Cipolla becomes the new face of the SLO Sheriff’s Department
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department just got a lot handsomer. Central Coast anchorman Tony Cipolla has been selected as the new public information officer. According to a department news release, Cipolla was formally offered the position on June 14 after completing a lengthy vetting process. He will replace former PIO Rob Bryn, who […]
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Nipomo’s big gulp
According to Greg Nester, a builder and developer in Nipomo, the next 30 days are going to be very interesting. All eyes remain fixed on the Nipomo Community Services District (NCSD) and how it plans to address its ongoing groundwater problems. In short, the latest plan is to stop providing new water connections. On May […]
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The embattled Mark Moore’s family members dispute they signed loans
With her farm and home in jeopardy and at least three banks jostling to recoup their money, Gail Moore and her attorney are trying to figure out why she’s on the hook for a $900,000 loan she claims she never signed. In fact, two other people have disputed they signed similar documents that bear their […]
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SLO County votes in favor of Nipomo water project
San Luis Obispo County has cast its vote in favor of a controversial supplemental water project for Nipomo. On March 27, SLO County supervisors, acting in their side role as the SLO County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, cast a ballot in favor of the Nipomo Supplemental Water Project. The Nipomo Community Services District […]
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The great congressional piggybank battle
See who’s paying whom to represent the Central Coast in Washington, D.C.
If you need any indication of the importance money will have in the 2012 election, consider that Central Coast incumbent Democrat Lois Capps raised more cash in 2011 than she did over the entire 2007-08 election cycle. In the race for the soon-to-be 24th District, Capps so far has the most financial fuel in her […]
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What are the pros and cons of self-diagnosing?
Woody Allen is perhaps the most well known hypochondriac. According to Don Hilty, professor and vice chair of faculty development in the UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Allen’s iconic bumbling caricature “feels like he’s ill and he’s worried about being ill, but technically he’s not.” And Allen’s neurotic character had the luxury […]
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Nipomo needs water
Look into the $25.3 million project CSD officials must sell to residents
A Nov. 9 meeting about Nipomo’s water problems began with a warning: Beware the white handouts. People walking through the door at the community meeting organized by the Nipomo Community Services District were met with a barrage of handouts, only one of which actually came from the CSD. That white sheet the CSD members warned […]
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Caught in the middle
Local sick and poor residents are trapped in a tug of war over budget cuts and extravagant corporate salaries
You can still see the scar on Vicky Duniven’s sternum. It barely peeks over the neckline of her shirt—a glint of mangled skin that hints at the remnants of a much larger wound left when her chest was split open to remove a cancerous growth the size of a grapefruit. Duniven is a quintessentially tragic […]
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PG&E officials say it won’t happen here
According to officials from Pacific Gas & Electric, the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant isn’t susceptible to the same catastrophic failures as Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi, which is currently belching out radioactive material after several of its units exploded. “There are some very significant differences,” John Conway, PG&E senior vice president and chief nuclear officer, said […]
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Oceano Dunes wind-monitoring towers approved
The towers—to be built by the California Department of Parks and Recreation Off Highway Vehicle division—will be used to collect data on sand and other particulate matter blowing off the dunes and into residential areas in Oceano and Nipomo. Residents complain dust kicked up by off-road vehicles is a health hazard. County officials from various […]
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SLO Regional Transit Authority is seeking financial backing from county government
Fasten your seat belts; it’s going to be a bumpy financial ride. On Jan. 25, in a back conference room in the San Luis Obispo County Government Center, some of the county’s top financial experts listened as Regional Transit Authority Executive Director Ed King pleaded his case: The agency, whose buses connect SLO to Santa […]
