The unincorporated community of Oceano, California has been on my radar for quite some time because it’s a community that requires solutions to a number of problems. And more often than not, the proposed solutions we’ve seen lately create more problems and contentiousness to sort through — more than is…

I haven’t written about the self-proclaimed, hard right extremist and self-proclaimed “activist” Kevin P. Rice lately. Honestly, that’s a good thing. When he left San Luis Obispo County in 2020, I thought: good riddance! Like many, I grew tired of his patently unhinged robocalls, litigious harassment of perceived political adversaries…

It’s true. I used to get upset when I was randomly dredged up on Cal Coast News every time one of their articles about the late SLO County District 3 Supervisor Adam Hill appeared. But now that the state appellate court correctly ruled in 2021 that there was no evidence…

As some of you know, I wrote a book in 2019 called Defamers: How Fake News Terrorized a Community & Those Who Dared to Fight It. It’s almost the four-year anniversary of a book I wrote about the online tabloid Cal Coast News, their false and deceptive reporting practices, and…

Los Osos is a beautiful place, but it’s woefully underappreciated and underrepresented. It’s time to change that. Last week, I had the opportunity to observe the devastation at Vista de Oro Estates, an area ravaged by floods and a mudslide that occurred after our most recent storm. Residents showed me…

Watching the San Luis Obispo County District 2 Supervisor race was exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. There were various twists and turns, close shaves, allegations and pointless posturing that made SLO County voters exasperatedly exclaim, “Certify the damn results already and let us move on with our lives!” …

For the November 8, 2022 General Election, I decided to focus on the elections happening in my community. Everyone and their mother had something to say about the San Luis Obispo County races. My mailbox was deluged with countless glossy mailers featuring the candidates. What was conspicuously absent from my…

It started on the evening of October 3. Out of the blue, people I didn’t know were reaching out to me on Facebook Messenger, expressing concern for my safety. My phone was buzzing with notifications from people I never knew, people I never met, tagging me in seemingly random conversations…

On August 27, Amazon informed me that someone had “flagged” my book Defamers: How Fake News Terrorized a Community & Those Who Dared to Fight It via the website’s Kindle Direct for “possible violations of our Content Guidelines.” These alleged violations were never disclosed to me and I don’t know…