Author: Karen Velie

Crime stats don’t tell real story

It’s hard to accept as convincing the assertion that crime is down in Paso Robles when one can look out a window at a passing parade of daily lawbreaking.

But the criminal activity that occurs regularly outside the picture windows of Karen Daniels’ Pellet Insurance Services Inc. does not interest the local police, who have ignored “for many years” her complaints, she said..

“We see everything that happens in this parking lot… from both sides of our office. We see the exchanges. We see the money changing hands. We see it all,” said Daniels. “This particular location is a hot spot for this kind of activity.”

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Oceano battles against transparency

Oceano’s attorney is advising district staff break the Public Records Act and not allow the public legally mandated access to district records.

The California Public Records Act is a powerful tool used by reporters and the public to uncover governmental shortcomings and illegal activities.

Yet, the legal counsel for the Oceano Community Service District has recommended that district manager Tom Geaslan break the Act in order to reduce “frivolous records requests.”

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Where do you get your news?

OPINION By GARY NEMETH Where do you receive your news? How do you keep current on what is happening in Paso Robles and the community? I was very fortunate recently that Dave Congalton who is on KVEC...

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Flu bug bites at county jail

An outbreak of influenza at San Luis Obispo County Jail has resulted in quarantine of the facility’s west dormitory, the postponement of all court dates for prisoners housed in the west  unit and has forced staff personnel and...

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