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Preliminary general election results indicate that education in San Luis Obispo County's southern region could see an influx of new candidates. But it's still early,...

Adrienne García-Specht, who's running for Cuesta College's trustee area 4, remembers when the seeds were sown for her ambition. In 2020, months after the United...

Two years of COVID mandates and political polarization have inspired a new slate of candidates.

click to enlarge Progressive-Dems have plenty of causes to push their desire for equality to new levels of activism. But all they seem to accomplish is protesting and talking. There was the whole controversy over Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board member Chris Arend—who believes systemic racism is a fallacy and yells at Spanish speakers because the district translator doesnt translate very well—as well as some ...

COVID-19 pandemic thrown into the mix for good measure. click to enlarge Speaking of the pandemic, COVID-19 has definitely been a naughty little virus, and its resurging with a vengeance just like all those experts said it would. After ruining basically all of 2020, coronavirus is now targeting Christmas. Remember when we were worried about running out of toilet paper, standing in line at Costco, and I, for one, would just ...

Share: By Allen Root, San Luis Obispo I’ve been trying to fill my head with happy thoughts these past few months, and “Woke on the Warpath” (Nov. 26) put a dent in that. I’m not sure how John Donegan derives his pronouncements if not from breathtaking naiveté. The now-scrubbed material from Cuesta College trustee Pete Sysak’s social media went way beyond calling distant protesters “thugs,” it was vile, hateful, and I will not honor it with a description. Someone who hatefully de...

The Cuesta College board of trustees has done about all it can to boot trustee Pete Sysak from his position over controversial posts he shared to his Facebook page. But Sysak isnt budging. At a meeting on Dec. 9, the board of trustees unanimously approved a resolution to censure Sysak, the result of an ad hoc committee investigation into posts on his personal Facebook page—where he identifies himself as a Cuesta College trustee—that contain everything from totally false information to a...