The smell of tar was thicker than the air in the room where music senior David Hora sat, waiting to go to his next class.
“A whole bunch of people have headaches, but it’s still the same schedules in the same rooms,” Hora said.
Construction on the roofs of the H.
A plan to improve the economic and aesthetic viability of South Broad Street will be introduced to the community tonight at a public meeting at the Grange Hall.
The South Broad Street Corridor Plan seeks to implement traffic improvements that will make the one-mile stretch of road between High Street and Orcutt Road safer through the addition of pedestrian refuges, crosswalks and signals.
November is Latino History Month and this year’s celebration is bigger than ever.
“This year is really cool because we have a director and have planned more events,” said Gabriela Garcia, a nutrition senior and Multicultural Center employee.
There are usually two weeks in October dedicated to Latino history, but the center wanted to have a whole month to bring awareness about Latino heritage and culture.
Four San Luis Obispo residents are in police custody after a drug raid late Monday night on five locations throughout the city. The suspects, Robert Trevino, Pedro Ibarra, Phillip Furia and Claudia Rosales were arrested on suspicion of crimes ranging from possession and sales of a controlled substance to child endangerment, according to San Luis Obispo police chief Deborah Linden.
Measure J passed yesterday after a 16-year battle by Ernie Dalidio to get the petition on the ballot.
“They brought the champagne,” said Stephanie Yurchak, a celebrating Measure J proponent.
The 51 acres of land that Dalidio owns – located on Madonna Road – will be devoted to a shopping center.
A proposition that will infuse $10.4 billion into California’s education system, including $16.7 million for Cal Poly over two years, was headed toward approval as of deadline Tuesday.
Despite trailing earlier in the night, Proposition 1D was up by a margin of five points, 54.
Measure Y passed Tuesday night with 64.74 percent of the vote, meaning that the city of San Luis Obispo will now pay a half-cent more on sales taxes for the next eight years.
The measure finished with 7,738 votes supporting it and only 4,215 votes opposing it.
Voters re-elected San Luis Obispo Mayor Dave Romero Tuesday for his third term. He won by 16.79 percent in a race against John Ewan, a business owner and City Council member, City Council member Christine Mulholland and artisan welder Don Hedrick. Romero led the race the whole way through.
Constituents in the House of Representatives’ 23rd District, which includes parts of San Luis Obispo County, re-elected Democrat Lois Capps Tuesday.
“I feel very gratified, first of all that there’s a good turn out at the polls,” Capps said.
Capps defeated Republican Victor Tognazzini with 63 percent of the vote.
Measure J San Luis Obispo has been covered with “Yes” and “No” posters for several months, debating whether the Dalidio Ranch project should exist. Should it be built, the former farmland will be home to a large retail center, a business park, housing units, sports fields, nature reserves and much more.
Results are in: Cal Poly students want Arnold back. An online Mustang Daily poll shows that 60 percent of the surveyed students will be voting for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today, with just 23 percent for Democrat Phil Angelides.
“I think he’s doing a decent job in education,” mechanical engineering sophomore Bruno Caulk said of Schwarzenegger.