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Brass Mash will play horn-driven pop, rock, and funk tunes on April 2 at Liquid Gravity

Brass Mash will play horn-driven pop, rock, and funk tunes on April 2 at Liquid Gravity
With its open back patio, food trucks, and killer beer, Liquid Gravity is turning out to be the place to go for live music, and the band to see is
Brass Mash, which plays the first Friday of every month, including this
Friday, April 2, from 6 to 9 p.m.
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PHAT AND SASSY Brass Mash continues their monthly dinner show at Liquid Gravity on
April 2.
"We're playing monthly and spending a good amount of effort trying to make it a great community event," band leader and trombonist

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Morro Bay discusses battery plant

A 22-acre, 600-megawatt battery plant could begin construction in Morro Bay as early as 2022.
On March 29, Morro Bay City Councilmember Dawn Addis and Mayor John Headding—members of the Morro Bay City Council power plant subcommittee—hosted a virtual discussion with representatives of Texas-based retail electricity and power generation company Vistra Energy.
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POWER PROJECT Texas-based energy company Vistra is making its case for a 22-acre, 600-megawatt battery plant project in the City of Morro Bay.
Vistra Energy initially applied for a permit in 2020 to build a 4-acre, 200-megawatt battery storage plant but withdrew the application. In January, the company submitted another application for a 600-megawatt battery plant with plans to feature 2,400 megawatt-hours of lithium-ion batteries. The proposed project would have enough power to supply 450,000 homes.

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Rescue money: SLO County and its cities are getting $85 million in federal stimulus funds, but there are rules on how to spend it

A "once-in-a-generation" financial windfall is coming to San Luis Obispo County courtesy of the American Rescue Plan.
The $1.9 trillion federal stimulus bill, signed into law on March 11, allocated $130 billion in direct aid to local governments, and SLO County and its seven cities are in line to receive $85 million.
More than half of that, $54.9 million, will go to the county. For context, that's close to 10 percent of the entire county budget in 2020-21. The Rescue Plan payments will come in two installments in 2021 and 2022, and must be spent by the end of 2024.
Andrew Hackleman, vice president of regional economic think tank REACH Central Coast, called the relief funds "the type of opportunity for investment that won't come up again in our lifetimes more than likely."

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Stop dangerous drilling!

More than 7 million Californians live within 1 mile of an oil or gas well.
Living near oil and gas wells is linked with an increased risk of cancer, asthma, and high-risk pregnancies.
Senate Bill 467, the "dangerous drilling bill," was introduced into the California Legislature by Sens. Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) and Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco). SB 467 bans fracking, acid well stimulation, cyclic steam injection, steam flooding, and other extreme, highly polluting forms of extraction. These methods are currently used in Cat Canyon, endangering the Santa Maria Valley water basin on which more than 100,000 residents rely for drinking water.
California is one of the largest oil-producing states in the U.S., yet we have no regulations to protect us from drilling. SB 467 includes a 2,500-foot setback between operations and schools, churches, and community centers. The bill also provides a path for oil workers to transition into oil and gas well remediation jobs.

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Bring back real democracy

What about an Equal Rights Amendment for women? Well, the whole concept seems almost passé today after a big effort in the 1970s failed. One...

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Shut Diablo down now

Shut Diablo down now
No, Mr. Henry, the increased maintenance activity at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant is not a conspiracy by public officials and PG&E ("The year the music died," March 25).
Unit 2 was offline 25 percent of the time during 2020 and has been offline most of 2021 so far because of problems with the stator. While a failed stator would not cause a radioactive release, it would pose dangers to plant workers, and no electricity can be produced without it.
Recurring leaks of hydrogen gas caused shutdowns in July and October of 2020. The Dec. 2 closure was necessitated by excessive vibrations and lasted for several weeks. Unit 2 has only run a few days at a time in 2021, largely for purposes of testing whether PG&E has gotten the vibration problem under control.

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On dunes and history

As historic moments go on the Central Coast, 9 p.m. on March 18, 2021, and the 10 minutes or so leading up to it, will always be hard to beat.
That's when it began to dawn on hundreds of people who had hung on to the end of that day's marathon meeting of the California Coastal Commission that the commissioners were really, finally going to do it: The shutdown of off-road vehicle activity at the Oceano Dunes had clearly gone from a question of "if" to a question of "when."
Throughout the day, the cracks had been appearing in the old regime. The good burghers of Pismo Beach and the South County chambers of commerce popped up to intone once again that no more dune buggies would mean economic ruin, still citing the 2017 "economic impact analysis" commissioned by State Parks, which the Coastal Commission knew had been thoroughly discredited.

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Wildling Museum hosts Zoom talk with Chuck Graham, author of Carrizo Plain: Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands

Carrizo Plain: Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands
On Wednesday, April 14, the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature will host its next virtual program via Zoom, Chuck Graham: Hidden Wonders of the Carrizo Plain, from 4 to 5 p.m. A local photographer and author, Graham recently released his new book,
Carrizo Plain: Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands. During the Zoom program, Graham will discuss the book and share some of his experiences as an avid photographer of the Carrizo Plain National Monument over the past 15 years.
"As a photographer, there isn't a bad time for me to visit [the Carrizo Plain]. It doesn't always have to be about the super bloom phenomena," Graham said in press materials from the Wildling Museum. "I've never returned to the grasslands without at least a few quality images."

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Local hire provision holds up Central Coast Blue project agreement

The Arroyo Grande City Council voted on March 23 that it will not sign a multi-city agreement with Grover Beach and Pismo Beach to move forward on the Central Coast Blue water project unless it includes a local hire provision—setting up a standoff between the three cities.
While Pismo's and Grover's city councils both signed the operating agreement and approved the recycled wastewater project's environmental impact report, Arroyo Grande council members took issue with its lack of commitment to a community workforce agreement, which would guarantee that local skilled workers are hired for the estimated $50 million project.
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Carbajal, Senate colleagues request transparency in Space Command headquarter selection process

Carbajal, Senate colleagues request transparency in Space Command headquarter selection process
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