A Cal Poly Environmental Engineering student’s unique eye-view of the Great Sewer Debate

How did Los Osos get here from there, from a shimmering vision of ponds to the oncoming locomotive of an industrial-strength centralized sewer, the most expensive per capita in US history?

Forty-plus years of experience in the law did not prepare Martha Goldin for the travesty of justice she witnessed at the RWQCB’s Jan. 22 CDO hearing.

The Tribune is a dying newspaper, and on Thursday, Sept. 24, readers were given yet another ugly example why the Tribune is hell-bent on hastening its own demise. If McClatchy ever gets wind of the Trib’s latest bad joke on its readers, if money is the bottom line, Trib Publisher Bruce Ray will probably be fired. Somehow, Ray forgot he was hired to raise revenues, not reduce them more. Who needs another $100,000-a-year publisher to run the paper deeper into the ground when former publisher Chip Visci did that so well?

The Tribune is a dying newspaper, and on Thursday, Sept. 24, readers were given yet another ugly example why the Tribune is hell-bent on hastening its own demise. If McClatchy ever gets wind of the Trib’s latest bad joke on its readers, if money is the bottom line, Trib Publisher Bruce Ray will probably be fired. Somehow, Ray forgot he was hired to raise revenues, not reduce them more. Who needs another $100,000-a-year publisher to run the paper deeper into the ground when former publisher Chip Visci did that so well?

Asked to reveal the deep, dark secret behind the long-running and strange goings-on inside the Los Osos sewer saga, a few owls in Los Osos have been known to whisper “Chinatown.” “Chinatown” screenwriter Robert Towne sheds light on more than a few historical points in common between LA of the early 1930s and Los Osos today, starting with the water, who owns it, how much it’s really worth – and land grabs. Los Ososans should read Towne’s comments and then see how many chilling similarities they can come up with…