Pssst, Lossss Osssoossss. Ssssttts, Yoo hoo WAKE UP! HELLO! Well, nice to know some things never change. The county sent out what most presumed would be a much anticipated Sewer Survey, the long promised “not-a-vote-but-a-voice� questionnaire and, to date, only 27% of the things have been return...

Another Viewpoint The following “Viewpoint� by CSD Boardmember, Chuck Cesena, ran in the Tribune Feb 26,09. Posted with permission. The recent viewpoint from Bill Garfinkel and company was disingenuous in several ways. They paint anyone with a different opinion as a sewer obstructionist. Those w...

Another (Follow-up) Viewpoint viewpoint The following “follow-up viewpoint� was emailed to me from Gail McPherson (who had a Viewpoint in the Tribune recently, also posted here) with a request to post. So far, there’s been three “Viewpoints,� from Bill Garfinkle, the Sustainability Group a...

Sewer Viewpoint The following appeared in the Feb 24, 09, Tribune. This is the Viewpoint with a few added notes by author McPherson. Regarding Bill Garfinkel's Viewpoint, "It's time to speak out on sewer options" (Feb. 17): All residents of Los Osos should have received a community survey in the mai...

Start Yer Sewer Engines, Part II Comments below from an email from the Sustainability Group, some Los Osos citizens who have been monitoring and commenting on the county project. The County “survey� arrived in my mailbox today, and, as suspected, there are, alas, some critical things missing, li...

Calhoun’s Cannons, The Bay News, Tolosa Press, SLO, CA for March 6, 09 What’s A Mother To Do? Timing is all. And place. Had Nadya Suleman, the controversial mother of the recently born octuplets, been living in the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union, her reproductive efforts...

Your Poem on This Beautiful Blustery Sunday By Robert Wrigley, who’s most recent collections is “Eartly Meditations: New and Selected Poems,� which you can find in your local bookstore. Cemetery Moles Most are not blind, but still,might the concrete burial vaultsbe perceived before a tunnelcom...

More RWQCB Stealth Septic Plans The RWQCB is still pushing through their state-wide, region by region Seatlth Septic Basin Update Plans and when they got to Sonoma County, they got an earful. This from the Press Democrat paper. As one local wag commented, No wonder the RWQCB doesn’t regularly broa...

Your Sunday Poem This from the Feb 2 New Yorker, which, God Bless them, still prints poetry so you can discover new poets, then go out and buy their slim volumes, thereby sending them a few pence to help them continue to write good poetry. ARMY CATS By Tom Sleigh 1.Over by the cemetery next to the C...

Calhoun’s Cannons, The Bay News, Tolosa Press, SLO CA for Februrary 6, 09 Inauguration Déjà vu Watching the Obama inauguration was eerie. Suddenly, the tone, tenor and even the cold, sparkling weather reminded me of the Reagan inauguration. If you recall that ceremonious transition, there was th...