By Aaron Ochs, on June 25th, 2011%
 Don't cry Maria... we're moving in with Paavo! Former LOCSD director Maria Kelly and current Public Works Director Paavo Ogren have been dating for six months. Some allege that their relationship has lasted for two to three years, and the political circumstances surrounding their relationship are extensive. It’s too early to tell whether a conflict of interest between Ogren and Kelly can be proven. However, there is information that illustrates the appearance of conflict of interest. Razor Online investigates the allegations.
Continue reading The Kelly/Ogren Influence →
By Aaron Ochs, on June 2nd, 2011%
 - Jimmy Patterson as a young dunce
Ignoring several, previously unaddressed concerns from residents during the May 17 Board of Supervisors meeting, San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Jim Patterson spoke for a minute about his views on the Los Osos wastewater project. Here is the complete transcript of his speech:
Continue reading The 30-Year Pill →
By Aaron Ochs, on May 18th, 2011%
 The manana board at another meeting On Tuesday, SLO County Board of Supervisors voted to expand the total Los Osos wastewater project to $173,398,416 in order to accommodate the “Waterwater Enterprise Fund.” The board also voted to increase the designation for future road projects in the Road Fund by $2,200,000.
Continue reading ‘Not At Any Cost!’ →
By Ed Ochs, on May 15th, 2011%
 The County says, "Take my card!" The County is tired of hearing from Los Osos residents about the County’s handling, or mangling, of the sewer project, for which Los Osos is paying, not the County.
How tired are they? So tired that Supervisor Bruce Gibson, at a recent after-hours session in Los Osos, narrowed his usual lava flow of caustic, inflammatory comments to two words: “Sue me.”
Continue reading ‘Sue Me… and Shut Up!’ →
By Ed Ochs, on May 1st, 2011%
 Gibson pops up in the strangest places “…much of what we’ve heard this afternoon has been spoken to many, many times before…”
Supervisor Bruce Gibson
April 26, 2011
There, he said it again!
Continue reading Gibsonian Demockracy →
By Aaron Ochs, on April 18th, 2011%
 Bruce Gibson: Most Interesting Man in the World He is said to have heard every question ever asked. He is the search engine that Google comes to for answers…
Continue reading Bruce Gibson: The Most Interesting Man in the World →
By Aaron Ochs, on April 8th, 2011%
Apparently, MWH Americas has not left the building. County Public Works’ John Waddell wrote to a Los Osos resident on March 22, “The pre-qualified short-list for the treatment facility under a design-build process includes MWH, CDM, and Auburn Construction.”
Then, the plot twist. Public Works Director Paavo Ogren wrote in an e-mail to another Los Osos resident on April 5 that MWH has not been excluded from bidding on the design and construction of the treatment facility and construction of the collection system. Didn’t MWH already exclude themselves from bidding on the design of the collection for the “overall controversy in Los Osos”?
Continue reading MWH, Get Out of The Bay →
By Ed Ochs, on March 4th, 2011%
 Gibson has dollar signs in his eyes. “Wild speculation.”
That’s how 2nd District Supervisor Bruce Gibson has characterized loud and frequent public warnings from Los Osos residents that thousands will be forced to sell their homes and move as a result of average $250-a-month sewer bills to pay for the County’s wildly over-priced project – and that’s not just “speculation.”
Facts are Gibson’s nemeses.
Continue reading Gibson’s Big Lie 2 – The Sewer Assistance Fund Fraud →
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?
Continue reading Napoleon Hill →
By Ed Ochs, on February 15th, 2011%
 Gibson will make sure you leave Los Osos. Second District Supervisor Bruce Gibson was up to his old dirty tricks again at the Feb. 3 Regional Water Board meeting in San Luis Obispo.
When asked by RWQCB Chairman Jeffrey Young for his response to public comment from Los Osos speakers, the irascible Gibson resorted to his tiresome, negative stock speech of fractured facts, desperate distortions and layered lies, once again deflecting any and all criticism that his $166 million big-city megasewer for little Los Osos’ “Prohibition Zone” isn’t anything but the best damn project poor Los Osos’ millions can buy.
Continue reading Affordability – Gibson’s Big Lie →
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