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Morro Bay could skip its November election after just three candidates stepped forward for three open seats, trading the ballot box for roughly $30,000 in savings. In an Aug. 19 staff report, city staff recommended that the City Council cancel the Nov. 3 election and appoint the three candidates running unopposed: Mayor Carla Wixom and […] The post Morro Bay considers skipping November election…
A coalition of California counties, sprouted in response to Reagan administration actions, has resurfaced for the first time in more than 30 years to block renewed federal plans to allow offshore oil drilling off the California coast. At its Aug. 18 meeting, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors joined the fight by approving […] The post SLO County pays into renewed statewide coalition…
Paso Robles City Councilmember Chris Bausch is asking 2nd District voters for another term after a tumultuous four years at City Hall that culminated in lawsuits and more than $840,000 in settlements and legal costs. This time, he isn’t running unopposed. Bausch, who was appointed to the council in 2022, faces two challengers in November: […] The post Three candidates vie for Paso Robles 2nd…
San Luis Obispo City Councilmember Jan Marx’s efforts to censure Mayor Erica Stewart failed to garner support from her peers. Following a final advisory opinion from the SLO Personnel Board that recommended against censuring the mayor for sharing a confidential SLO County grand jury report with a Cal Poly official, Marx tried to agendize a […] The post Jan Marx’s censure attempt against Mayor…
“Attention, students. Today’s lesson is about how to pave paradise and put up a parking lot. Lemons are currently $2.13 per pound. The average San Luis Obispo hotel room is $247 a night. Do the math. Or better yet, let AI do it. You’ll quickly discover Cal Poly can make more money running a hotel […] The post Money 101 appeared first on New Times San Luis Obispo .
Cristina Talacko and Jeffrey Donovan’s claim that California would be “throwing $30 billion into the Pacific” by closing Diablo Canyon in 2030 makes for a catchy line, but it misrepresents the choice before California (“Don’t throw Diablo Canyon into the sea,” Aug. 13). California is not deciding whether to build a new $30 billion nuclear […] The post Diablo Canyon is a policy choice appeared…
I attended my first SLO city Personnel Board meeting on Aug. 14 at 9 a.m. because I wanted to present my comments regarding a censure for Mayor Erica Stewart. I am very glad I attended, but I left extremely disappointed. The meeting was a clear example of a chairperson dominating and pushing his opinion on […] The post I’m disappointed in the SLO Personnel Board’s no censure decision appeared…
The ongoing Timber Fire serves as a critical reminder of the challenges faced by our firefighting personnel. Currently, hotshot crews are required to hike miles into steep Big Sur terrain due to a severe lack of fire roads. This situation is the direct result of policies that have deprioritized practical access in favor of extreme […] The post We need more fire access roads in the national forest…
Joshua Burt’s Aug. 8 letter (“New Times is amplifying antisemitism”) ignores the fact that Israel is training with American soldiers—and, I’ve read, even U.S. federal ICE agents. The same cruelty and torture of Gaza prisoners is the present reality of people kidnapped by ICE and locked up in detention centers. There is no way to […] The post In response to antisemitism claims about July 16 Hodin…
For generations of Cal Poly agriculture students, some of the university’s most important classrooms haven’t had walls. Their classrooms are the lemon groves and crop fields stretching along the western edge of campus, where students can walk out of a lecture and, within minutes, find themselves laying irrigation pipe, planting crops, driving tractors, studying pests, […] The post A plan to…
