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Affordable Housing 06.09.2022

On Tuesday, the supervisors voted 3-1 to repeal the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance. That required developers to include 8% affordable housing in their projects or to pay a fee. Supervisors Peschong, Debbie Arnold and Lynn Compton all voted for the repeal. Supervisor Bruce Gibson cast the lone vote in favor of the affordable housing ordinance. Supervisor…

Darsha Stebbins 06.09.2022

At Tuesday’s meeting of the board of supervisors, Darsha Stebbins talked to the board about the integrity of elections. She brought with her a pile of ballots which were duplicates or misnamed. Darsha and many others feel that sending out ballots to everyone on the voter rolls is producing a plethora of extra ballots which…

Other Elections 06.09.2022

In other elections Tuesday, the state assembly seat which now represents San Luis Obispo county will see a face off in the general election. Running for that district 30 seat are democrat Dawn Addis of Morro Bay and republican Vicki Nohrden of Monterey county. Addis is a Morro Bay city council member and co-founder of…

Elections in SLO County 06.09.2022

The elections in San Luis Obispo county still hanging in the air while we wait for the county clerk-recorder’s officer to resume counting ballots. 30,000 ballots remain to be counting. They will start counting them tomorrow morning at nine. Because many of those who voted late were republican voters. People are anxious to see if…

Opening Weather 06.09.2022

Temperatures climbing up over the century mark late this week, then cooling off Sunday and Monday. Highs will reach 104 tomorrow, so if you’re going to the Paso Robles high school graduation Friday night, you probably won’t need an overcoat. Incidentally they pushed back the start of that commencement exercise one hour so that it…

North County Weather 06.08.2022

Sunny with a few clouds today in the north county, highs near 96. NW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tonight, clear skies, lows near 56. NW winds 15-25 miles per hour. Tomorrow, sunny skies, highs near 100. NNW winds 10-20 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny skies this week. With a…

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Other Stories This Wednesday 06.08.2022

A motion to dismiss the Kristin Smart murder case is denied by Monterey county superior court judge Jennifer O’keefe. O’keefe is new to the bench, but she’s presiding over the murder trial of Paul Flores and his dad. The trial moved to Monterey county because of pretrial publicity in San Luis Obispo county. The price…

Aids Bicycle Ride 06.07.2022

More than 2400 bicyclists rode into the Paso Robles Event Center yesterday as part of the aids/lifecycle ride. During day three of the ride, the cyclists rode south from King City. They are supported by about 500 volunteers. Together, they are raising $17.8 million dollars to fight the aids virus. The bike ride took a…