What, if anything, can be done to avert the coming disaster of living in a country where our president is “above the law”? Where criminal violations of the oath of office are ignored? Where Supreme Court of the United States candidates can lie under oath to the Senate selection committee and, once confirmed, render baseless […]
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Political Watch: July 11, 2024
• Amid extreme heat waves across California and the nation, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) applauded the Biden administration’s proposed rule to establish the first-ever federal safety standard to protect workers from the severe risks of excessive heat, according to a July 2 statement from Padilla’s office. The rule, proposed by the Department of Labor’s […]
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Biden over Trump
I don’t know what planet Ron Fink was on four years ago, but the country and entire world were in the middle of a pandemic! Remember COVID? It was hard to get toilet paper, masks, and staples like flour and rice! Millions didn’t survive, and Trump did not care. I will take Biden over Trump […]
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Wind facilities vs. our national bird
Our national bird, the bald eagle—a protected species—is incurring increasing mortality from existing and proposed wind facilities. This letter focuses on the slaughter of bald eagles due to the offshore wind industry, which are proposed to grow massively along coastal California in order to reduce carbon emissions. However, the U.S. Department of Energy has stated […]
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Trump isn’t alone in speaking against immigration
President Trump is not the only person in history to speak out against immigration. Alexander Hamilton was upset about the election of Thomas Jefferson. He claimed the election was stolen and non-U.S. citizens in New York had voted for him. Hamilton an immigrant himself, stated that “the influx of foreigners” would “change and corrupt the […]
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Political Watch: July 4, 2024
• Representatives in the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force announced a new effort to force a vote on legislation led by U.S. Reps. Lucy McBath (D-Georgia) and Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) to expand Americans’ access to red flag laws, which allow the removal of a gun from someone who is deemed by a court […]
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Political Watch: June 27, 2024
• U.S. Sens. Laphonza Butler (D-California) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) announced the introduction of the Health Equity Innovation Act, legislation to fight racial disparities in health outcomes by expanding access to preventative health care in underserved communities, according to a June 21 statement from Butler’s office. The bill would establish a new grant program […]
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We can’t go back once we mess things up
It seems we have been gaslighted with the “group think” new agendas. I am a local of San Luis Obispo. I was born in 1951, so I’ve seen a lot of changes in San Luis Obispo city and the county. The very sad thing about the Dana Reserve project is not only the loss of […]
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Stop pouring public money into weapons and war
Cannot our national-level elected officials, Sens. Laphonza Butler and Alex Padilla and Congressman Jimmy Panetta, do more to protect our young people from having to work for war and in war corporations? Some young people want to enter the military or to work for war companies, to kill and to risk being killed. But most […]
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Winning Images 2024
Local photographers share their view of the world for our annual photography contest
Amateur photographers from across the Central Coast entered our annual Winning Images photo contest, sharing their carefully crafted view of the world with us. Our judges narrowed down the entries to three winners in each category and an honorable mention based on the composition and uniqueness of each photo, among other qualities. Catch this year’s […]
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Protest the use of ICBMs till they’re eliminated
“When I say that there is a step that could reduce the risk of nuclear war significantly that has not been taken but could easily be taken, that is the elimination of American ICBMs.” –Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023) An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a land-based nuclear weapon. U.S. ICBMs are stored in underground silos across […]
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We still have time to preserve a livable planet
I appreciate that news publications are increasingly covering our planet’s worsening climate crisis. I read recently that May was the 12th consecutive month with average temperatures higher than all observations since 1850—probably the highest in more than 100,000 years. Shortly after that, I found out that California has in one year seen a doubling in […]
