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		<title>Thank God no celebrities&#8217; homes burned in Montecito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune brings us some welcome news as we worry about the families of the one hundred homes that have been destroyed by the Tea Fire, raging in the community of Montecito, our neighbor just south of Santa Barbara.  You&#8217;ll be able to sleep well tonight knowing that, hooray, it sounds like no homes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Useful Reminder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know the Obama phenomenon was launched by his 2004 Democratic Convention keynote declaration that there are neither Red States nor Blue States, just the United States.  And, yes, I’m well aware that our president-elect’s central appeal has been his repeated promises that he will end rancorous partisanship, bring the country back together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you one of the 45.8% SLO idiots for Prop 1A?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[45.8% of San Luis Obispo voters are complete idiots. At least. This is the number of voters that voted Yes to Prop 1A, the &#8220;Safe Reliable High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act.&#8221;
First of all, do you even know what a bond is? And do you know what financial shape California is in, much of which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Videos beg question: Should anyone be allowed to speak at City Council?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is a bit unusual, as we have to break our own rules.  While browsing the Video section of our sister site SLOnews.com we ran across a couple bizarre Youtube videos of recent San Luis Obispo City Council meetings that we wanted to share with you, where a SLO local named Sifu Kelvin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slopinion.com/sifu-harrison-video-discrimination-san-luis-obispo-city-council/</link>
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		<title>An American Carol: Not playing in San Luis Obispo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shame on San Luis Obispo theaters, shame on the theater chains and shame on the entire Hollywood machine.  The movie, &#8220;An American Carol,&#8221; opened on October 3rd, but the powers that be decided that San Luis Obispo shouldn&#8217;t see it.  Why is that? Because the movie makes of fun of liberals like Michael Moore, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County wants to spend millions to rid Pirates Cove of nudists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether you have been there or not, you&#8217;ve likely heard of Pirates Cove, the beautiful beach in Shell Beach situated below The Bluffs neighborhood.  Most have never been there since it&#8217;s not convenient to access, having to park in a dusty dirt lot, and hike down a trail to get there.  But it is popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preservation is a Green Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many here in San Luis Obispo may not realize that a number of historic structures in our Downtown may soon have a date with the wrecking ball. Larry Hoyt, the owner of the Mancillas Frietas Adobe at 868 Chorro Street plans to surround his structure with 3 floors of housing. In order to make this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends don&#8217;t let friends bash Starbucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been in any of the non-chain coffee shops in San Luis Obispo county, you&#8217;ve no doubt seen the stickers on some of the walls that read, &#8220;Friends don&#8217;t let friends go to Starbucks.&#8221;  And you&#8217;ve no doubt heard locals make derogatory comments about Starbucks, the evil &#8220;corporate&#8221; chain.  Just what is it that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slopinion.com/friends-dont-let-friends-bash-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>Forrest&#8217;s Wealthwise offered 42% a year gains?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see in the Tribune this morning that disgraced investment advisor Jeff Forrest has been charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Locals here know the story, some too intimately, but there is something that really stood out in the article I had not seen before.  It&#8217;s this:
Forrest told WealthWise clients that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Main Street greed, right here in San Luis Obispo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of blame to go around in the credit crisis we are now having.  But regardless of the inexcusable practices of financial institutions these last few years, it all started in the last decade when Bill Clinton rewrote Jimmy Carter&#8217;s 1977 Community Reinvestment Act in order to increase home ownership in minority [...]]]></description>
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