SLO County firm that helps disabled people buying TravelHost Central Coast franchise

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• Options scraps magazine in favor of other fundraisers

  Options scraps magazine in favor of other fundraisers

  Local nonprofit organization Options Family of Services has ceased publishing the Central Coast franchise of TravelHost, a glossy travel publication distributed to San Luis Obispo County visitors through local hotels.

  That means the Central Coast edition of the magazine — which as of 2009 was placed in more than 5,500 rooms in 80 local hotels and was supported by more than 150 advertisers — is now defunct.

  The magazine, which is featured in cities across the country, started its local franchise in 2003. The rising cost of print had pushed previous publisher Ferris Ferdon to shut down operations in mid-2009.

• Savor a second time: Food-and-wine extravaganza returns to Central Coast

  Savor a second time: Food-and-wine extravaganza returns to Central Coast

  As San Luis Obispo County’s $1 billion tourism industry remains one of the main drivers of the local economy, organizers of Sunset Savor the Central Coast say the second annual four-day food-and-wine event is the most recent — and high-profile — attempt to increase awareness of the region.

  The event, which organizers say generated $1.7 million in tourist spending to the local economy in 2010, kicks off Thursday.

  “Visitors may choose to come to Savor, but the reality is they are probably spending dollars outside of Savor, too,” county Visitors & Conference Bureau executive

• Hudson News chain founder Robert Cohen dies at 86

  Hudson News chain founder Robert Cohen dies at 86

  Magazine distributor Robert B. Cohen, who built the Hudson News chain of newsstands from one store at LaGuardia Airport and changed the way travelers spend their downtime, has died at age 86.

• Letters to the Editor 9/5

  Letters to the Editor 9/5

  Giving it away

  Well, I see the current mayor and City Council majority in Morro Bay has decided we’re just too rich to accept fees from their friends, the builders and speculators. At the last meeting, the council voted to extend to three years the elimination of building fees, as though the builders really need the savings.

  If you check with most if not all cities in the county and the county itself, you’ll find their charge to builders to be somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000 to cover water and sewer buy-ins and other city services.

• Letters to the Editor 10/31

  Letters to the Editor 10/31

  Stiffed again?

  After reading your editorial (Oct. 23) regarding the “unfounded attacks” against the solar power industry by Fox News, I believe your editorial staff has a severe case of “Fox derangement syndrome.” Never once in your editorial do you deny the facts as reported by Fox News. The point is, why do taxpayers have to provide financial backing to private companies if the product has a viable ROI?

  No sane professional business person would ever make that type of investment. I visited the SunPower plant in Point Richmond (it’s located in a defunct Ford assembly plant) about two years ago and again earlier this year. The amount of parking spaces available on my last trip was astounding.