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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
Frederick Douglas
Harbor Director Named
The City of Morro Bay has chosen Eric Endersby as the new Harbor Director. Eric has been with the MB Harbor Patrol since 1995. His areas of expertise include marina management, search and rescue, and environmental stewardship.
Behind the Badge / Transitions
Retirement has always been a four-letter word to me. My dad did not retire until he was 86-years-old. I am certain that his continued involvement with work, friends, and community gave him many additional, healthy years. So, when I recently left my beloved police officer position with the Morro Bay Police Department, I was not very thrilled — to say the least. Read More
Museum Sculpture Restored
The sculpture at the Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, "Seasons Come, Seasons Go" has been restored. Vandals had removed the Peregrine Falcon. Read More
Sierra Club Eco-Grants Awarded to Atascadero, Morro Bay Students
The Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club has marked the second year of its popular Eco-Grants program with awards to two deserving local high school programs. Read More
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New Newsflash from Morro Bay: Contradictions, Falsehoods, Omissions
Morro Bay and Cayucos have come out with a "briefing booklet" for the California Coastal Commission outlining where the joint owners of the wastewater treatment plant are heading with their plans for a new facility. It makes one thing clear: the direction is not where the Commission and its staff have told them to go for almost four years— and where the Commission is certain to redirect them very soon.
Three days ago, on March 28, the city of Morro Bay and the Cayucos Sanitary District issued what they call a "Briefing Booklet" for the California Coastal Commission laying out their final stand on their proposed wastewater treatment plant, a stand that said once and for all they are going to stick with the site of the current plant for a required new one— based on contradictions, falsehoods and omissions that pack the online booklet. Read More
Morro Bay Candidates 2012
For the past 30 years or more, Morro Bay has been a community of competing political interests — businesses on one hand, and residents on the other. Typically, businesses — not all but many — advocate what they think is best for them. And residents — certainly not all but a significant number — advocate for maintaining Morro Bay as a pleasant place to live as residents.
Businesses organize and come up with or actively support candidates who reflect their interests. Most residents hardly know who the candidates are as an election approaches, but virtually all residents are united by the desire to preserve Morro Bay as they cherish it. Few individuals are active in politics while businesses and their followers are. Read More
New Mapping Tool Shows How Severe Nuclear Accident Could Look in U.S.
In the year since the disaster, the NRC has failed to enact a single safety mandate for U.S. reactors, even though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission advised a 50-mile evacuation zone for U.S. citizens in Japan – a distance within which 120 million Americans live from U.S. plants – and there were five emergency shutdowns at U.S. facilities in 2011, due to earthquake or extreme weather. Read More |
Dynegy, Morro Bay Power Plant Owner, Stuck in Bankrutpcy
Dynegy, the owner of the Morro Bay Power Plant, has seen its bankruptcy filing of last year turn into a near financial collapse with stockholders accusing the company of fraud, the company losing $236 million last year, its stock price diving to .56 cents a share and a federal court examiner trying to figure out how to settle the complex case. Read More |
Diablo Seismic Studies Pose Major Environmental Impact
Ocean-floor seismic studies designed to pinpoint the earthquake faults near the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant will run the risk of major environmental impacts along the Central Coast, a new Draft Environmental Impact Report reveals. But a state law requires the studies of some kind to help determine the location, scope and nature of the faults as well as the dangers they may pose to the aging plant and the many residents and visitors who would be exposed to an earthquake-caused accident at the plant. Read More |
Bill Callahan, Cayucos Sanitary District Manager, Resigns
Bill Callahan, district manager of the Cayucos Sanitary District for the past seven years, resigned on March 15 for what he said were differences with some members of the District board, which is headed by Robert Enns, president, who is widely considered the most influential of the members. Callahan's dispute was primarily with Enns, a well-informed source said. Read More |
Six First Weeks after Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
(Memoirs of an Eyewitness)
This is an account of the Yuri Grigoriev, appointed Deputy Commander by the Ministry of Health of the Soviet Union to plan and carry out the medical evacuation and treatment of radiation victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Read More |
The Monterey Bay Marine National Sanctuary Backdoors SLO County
Last month I wrote an editorial about the impact of creating a heritage fishing area off our Central Coast as described in the Journal's February "Marine Sanctuary" column, Proposal For Protecting Local Fishing Fleet: Create a Heritage Fishing Area. Read More |
 Surf by Elizabeth Haslam
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One-Block Party Puts Morro Bay on the (Culinary) Map
Maybe it was their "any excuse for a party" attitude. Or their eclectic home-grown crops – including oysters they raised in the bay.
But, Team Beach Tractors had just the right something to win Sunset Magazine’s One-Block Challenge.
And now, nearly a year later, they are still harvesting a bounty of publicity for their new-found agrarian talents. Read More |
Miss Laurel's Award Winning Morro Bay Garden (Video by Tom Roff)
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