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Napoleon Hill

By Aaron Ochs, on February 27th, 2011%

Will he meet his Waste-Waterloo?

At last Tuesday’s SLO County Board of Supervisors meeting, many Los Osos speakers commented on the fact that the police were present during general public comment. Two weeks after my previous article was published, there was an increased presence of police inside the chambers. Newly elected San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson was present, as was the Under-Sheriff Martin Basti — formerly Chief Deputy when he physically assaulted Alan Martyn, an elderly resident of Los Osos, in 2005 — and an unnamed sheriff deputy.

How can one maintain decorum with cops that don’t know what decorum is?

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The Cop in the Back of the Room

By Aaron Ochs, on February 22nd, 2011%

This is where revolutions start.

UPDATE (3:16 PM PST): Sources have stated that there were three policemen at the meeting: one deputy, the undersheriff, and the sheriff himself (Ian Parkinson).

UPDATE (2/22 at 1:25 PM PST): Even more Sheriff’s deputies were in the back of the room during public comment at Tuesday’s SLO County Board of Supervisors meeting.

For nearly 10 years, law enforcement has been dispatched to meetings that addressed — or had public comment speakers that addressed — issues pertaining to the Los Osos wastewater project. Typically, it’s been presumed that the police were summoned to deal with the allegedly unruly Los Osos residents, most of whom maintain a reasonable, measured tone without elevating the vitriol beyond “We’re getting screwed.”

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Hill the Boor

By Ed Ochs, on January 13th, 2011%

Adam Hill's hair is on fire over sewer activists

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
—WWII Japanese Submarine Force Commander

New-term Board of Supervisors Chairman Adam Hill, a former Cal Poly English professor, is one of those teachers who teaches scared.

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Supervisor Hill’s Dilemma — To Think or Not to Think?

By Aaron, on September 15th, 2009%

Today, Adam Hill wrote a viewpoint in The Tribune that discussed his obligation to help he people he serves as a member of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors.

Mr. Hill wrote about the “finest pleasure” of “engaging students in larger moral discussions”  with his students when he taught literature at Cal Poly. Not once . . . → Read More: Supervisor Hill’s Dilemma — To Think or Not to Think?

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