For whatever reason — perhaps the giddiness and renewal that spring brings (or the fact that the month starts with an homage to fools) —April is chock-full of special observance days and weeks.
The image is disturbing: A small fishing vessel bucking through wave crests and troughs like an untethered bronco. It’s Joe Jones’ boat, the Wild Thang, captured on video by a Coast Guard chopper about 200 miles south of Morro Bay, Joe’s last port.
Our commercial fishing friends in Morro Bay and Port San Luis continue to take one hit after another as their industry founders under regulatory red tape.
Dear Ernie, I know you’ve been through years of teeth-gnashing frustration in trying to bring the Marketplace and its various permutations into being.
Every few years, Jay Walter, San Luis Obispo’s public works director, gets complaints about portable basketball hoops blocking city streets or sidewalks.
On the surface, it sounds like a good idea: Cal Poly entering into an agreement to help set up an engineering department at a Saudi Arabian university. Poly isn’t the only university being courted. Stanford and UC Berkeley are opening engineering and medical schools in Saudi Arabia.
One of the splendid pleasures of writing this column is reading the feedback on our Web site, www.sanluisobispo.com . Comments generally start off with well-honed critical thoughts aimed at the issue at hand. Then someone will make an observation that what’s been written is either a) typical liberal pap or b) typical conservative nonsense, and from there the conversation goes sideways, and it’s off to the polarized polemical races.
My friend Kim Dunn nicely sums up impending boomer mortality with a golfing metaphor: We’re now playing the back nine of life.
The future of the planned Veterans Memorial in Atascadero has taken an unexpected turn. It seems the city’s relatively new attorney, Brian Pierik, is urging the City Council to attach a liability agreement to the memorial — not just a liability clause to cover construction of the monument, as is standard procedure for most donated municipal art pieces, but a $1 million liability policy to last in perpetuity.
Ihate to sound like the grumpy old man who rags about idiotic behavior, but rag I must about …graffiti.
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What do you think of the new requirement for fisherman to have GPS systems on their boats?