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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil." Jerry Garcia |
Rise in Tax Receipts Bolsters Momentum of Morro Bay Tourism Efforts
With news that Morro Bay's income from Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) increased by 10 percent this past year, city officials and business owners are optimistic and eager to make sure the upward trend continues.
"This news is great on many levels," said Morro Bay Mayor Jamie Irons. Read More
Happily Singing the Blues: Ted Waterhouse
by Dawn R. Starr
Under the hot August sun in the expansive outdoor beer garden at the Barrel House Brewing Company, Ted Waterhouse was setting up for the weekly Thursday evening Real Blues Jam. The Barrel House Brewing Company is at the very south end of Paso Robles. He has gathered a group of talented local musicians who start the event by "jamming," with Ted leading on guitar and vocals. Then musicians in the audience have an opportunity to sit in and play on the stage which is on the bed of an old, rusted truck.
Ted has become a regular fixture in the California's Central Coast music scene since arriving here in 1980, after receiving his Bachelor's degree in anthropology. Read More
Skin Canvas
by Deborah Tobola
Steven was so determined to have his tattoo removed that he spent the night in the waiting room of the hospital so he'd be at the clinic the next day to receive a laser treatment. Since his first treatment, Steven has found a job, purchased a car, and decided to become an Emergency Medical Technician. Read More
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Enns Blames Morro Bay for No Wastewater Plant — Yet
by Jack McCurdy
Robert Enns, the president of Cayucos Sanitary District, told a group of residents that Morro Bay is the cause of Cayucos and Morro Bay — long-time partners in owning and operating the aging wastewater treatment plant in Morro Bay, which state agencies have ordered replaced — of not building a new plant, wasting $2.2 million in efforts to develop plans for a new plant over the past eight years. He failed to mention the futile efforts of Cayucos and Morro Bay to gain permission to replace that old plant with a new one at the same site, which the California Coastal Commission staff had made clear was prohibited. Read More
Mayor Irons Resigns from Power Plant Job
Morro Bay mayor Jamie Irons has resigned his position as an instrumentation controls technician at the Morro Bay Power Plant. This opens the way for the new city council majority of Irons, Christine Johnson, and Noah Smukler to take a hard look at the future of the plant in Morro Bay, and to determine independently and objectively whether there are better alternatives for the well-being, safety and economy of Morro Bay. The 60-year-old-plus dilapidated plant is producing very little electricity, is "not needed" by the state for its energy requirments, and is an eyesore on the north shore of the Morro Bay National Estuary, whose health the plant is taking an undetermined toll on. Irons' resignation means he now can vote on measures involving the plant. Read More
Comments to the Proposed California State Lands Commission
Offshore Geophysical Permit Program Update
by Carol Georgi and Karl Kempton
The California State Lands Commission (CSLC) studied their 49 permitted offshore low energy seismic surveys (LESS) during the last five years and determined some surveys may have caused both Levels A and B take of marine mammals due to decibel (dB) levels in the range of 200 dB to 234 dB, length of surveys, and lack of adequate mitigations. Indeed, California sea otter strandings increased along the shores where some of the surveys occurred offshore the central coast south of Cayucos, and the public was not warned of possible negative impacts to themselves and to marine life. Read More
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Shutterbugs
by Fred Moore
I grew up in Bakersfield and worked mostly in the oil fields until deciding to have my own shop and build street rods for customers. I married the love of my life, Diane, in 1969 and together we had a successful business for many years. I took a lot of pictures of the cars we built, but left the real photography to the pros that worked for the magazines that featured our cars. See More |
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