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Governor Gavin Newsom announces that schools will be pressured to reopen this spring. He’s allocating $6.6 billion dollars to provide incentives to schools which reopen by April first. In most areas, the barrier to reopening schools is the teacher’s union. The LA teachers union said they wanted several changes before teachers return to school. They…
Sunny today with highs this afternoon near 70. Clear overnight with temperatures dipping down to about 31. Tomorrow, partly cloudy with temperatures around 70. The extended forecast calls for clouds Wednesday, then sunny skies Thursday and Friday. A 40% chance of rain Saturday. And more showers next Tuesday and Wednesday.
High school sports picking up in the north county. Friday, the Paso Robles Bearcat boys and girls swim teams competed against the Greyhounds at Atascadero high school. No spectators were allowed, but the swimmers enjoyed the competition. They did not wear masks when they swam, which makes sense. Football practice underway at many high schools.…
In outer space, Cal Poly graduate and now astronaut, Victor Glover took a six hour walk in space yesterday. A NASA official described the video transmitted from space yesterday. Victor Glover is the son of a police officer from the Inland Empire. He studied aeronautical engineering at Cal Poly. He’s one of several Cal Poly…
Berkeley residents up in arms after a local TV station captures video of the teacher’s union president dropping his child off at a private school for kindergarten. Matt Meyer has fought efforts to reopen the schools in Berkeley, making all kinds of demands, but his child attends a private school. Critics calling the teachers union…
Fraud is fleecing the labor department’s jobless programs. In California, the estimate is $11 billion in fraudulent payments. But an additional $19 billion is suspicious. Accounts which appear to be fraudulent. One analyst says, “The only way that hackers could possibly steal that much money from the program is if there were people inside state…
Work begins today on highway one in an attempt to reopen the highway by this summer. Work begins today to shore up the hillside where the Rat Creek slide occurred. Caltrans hopes to reopen the highway this summer.
Friday night a recreational vehicle parked in the Walmart parking lot in Paso Robles caught fire. The owner tried to put out the flames, but could not stop it. The RV burned up. Fortunately, neither the owner nor his dog, Sadie, suffered serious injuries. Late Saturday night, a good Samaritan created a Go Fund Me…
A big turn out in Atascadero, Saturday afternoon to hear assemblyman Kevin Kiley of Sacramento and Placer County. Kiley was impressed at the turn out in San Luis Obispo county. Assemblyman Kiley grew up in the Folsom area. After high school he graduated from Harvard University. He taught school, then went to Yale School of…
The first of March today, but the warm weather in the afternoon hours continues. Forecasters saying we’ll see temperatures around 70 this afternoon in the north county. Mostly sunny skies through the week, until Saturday, then a 40% chance of rain. More showers expected Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. So March is bringing some…
