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History: Women … and a just cause
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." —Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution...
Café Roma: A local treasure offers edible pleasure
As we await the arrival of a replacement for our food writer, we decided to fill her space by finding out what our local restaurants are doing to survive the pandemic—even as they also keep us well-fed. Since 1980, the multiple award-winning Café Roma has been...
Central Coast Castle of Americana
Without knowing it, most people are significantly impacted by the architecture and interior design that surrounds them. On a long enough timeline, drab dwellings will create gloomy personas in their inhabitants. This is why an establishment like the Madonna Inn,...
Food Banks in Two Counties Need Support
"Managing this year on an empty stomach is our unthinkable reality. Sustainable recovery, for those who are impacted, will likely be measured in years, not months, not weeks, and many of you have leaned in. Thank you so much,” said Garrett Olson, CEO of the SLO Food...
Latino Outdoors: Leading the Way Toward More Equal Access to the Natural World
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” —John Muir These words, written many decades ago, are just one of many quotes from famed naturalist John Muir....
Ben Harvey: Auto Decor Artist Extraordinaire
Sitting in the corner of his grandfather's automotive workshop deconstructing engines as a young lad in 1990s Devon, England, little Ben Harvey couldn’t have imagined that, some twenty years later and thousands of miles away from home, he’d be inspired by those very...
Dane Hodgson: Videographer, 805 Acoustic, The Backlots
Dane Hodgson launched his career as a videographer after graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 2011 with a degree in film and media. For the next several years he traveled the country and the world making promotional videos for a wide variety of customers, with a...
Fasten your seatbelts! ‘Dead Reckoning:’ A work of fiction inspired by true events written by Michael Corbin Ray & Therese Vannier
Did you ever sing along to Gordon Lightfoot's rendition of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” or read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? Or watch in horror as Shelly Winters fatally attempted to save the Poseidon or didn’t look away when Leo...
Morgan Philbin: Associate Professor Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
On a recent visit to her hometown, Dr. Morgan Philbin wrote a Viewpoint article for The Tribune questioning Cal Poly’s plan for safeguarding returning students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Citing statistics from other universities where rates shot up when students...
Anchors Away … It’s Navy Day
Four years after his one-hour train stop and tour in the small Central Coast county seat of San Luis Obispo (about 3,500 residents), President Theodore Roosevelt stood aboard the presidential yacht, the Mayflower, in early December 1907 obviously delighted at the...