Sofia Alcazar sat in a metal folding chair outside the bullpen during a recent Cal Poly baseball game, pen and graphing materials in her lap. She scribbled notes onto a chart: changeups, curveballs, sliders. After the game, the chart revealed insights that casual observation could not. “That graph is incredibly helpful for the coaches to […]
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Valencia Apartments now accepting housing applications for 2021
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Happy Stem Cell Awareness Day: Get out there and vote “Yes” on Prop 14
The following is a paid advertisement written by a member of Mustang Media Group’s advertising staff. The Regenerative Medicine era presents us with important decisions about how to fund the research necessary to move the field forward. In 2004, we had Prop 71 here in California, the predecessor for the opportunity we have today with […]
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Father-daughter duo hope to keep phones clean with “Byte Wipes”
It is very rare that someone would leave the house without their phone. People tend to take their phone everywhere, and the average person touches their phones 2,600 times in a single day. People wash their hands throughout the day, but they often forget to keep their phones clean too. Father-daughter duo Kayla and David Wells […]
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UPDATE: The California Mid-State Fair canceled due to COVID-19
Update May 28: The California Mid-State Fair has been canceled due to COVID-19, according to the Mid-State Fair Board of Directors. The announcement was made Thursday morning during a virtual full board meeting. Update May 22: At the end of July every year the smell of livestock, funnel cakes and roller coaster screams fill the […]
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San Luis Obispo County now has 243 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 45 cases still active
San Luis Obispo now has 243 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Saturday, May 16 – up three cases from yesterday, according to the County Public Health.
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San Luis Obispo County now has 220 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 47 active cases
San Luis Obispo now has 220 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Sunday, May 10 – up six cases from yesterday, according to the County Public Health.
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College athletes are granted extra year of eligibility, but it comes with a cost
College athletes spent the entire fall and winter preparing for their spring seasons, but were never able to play due to the COVID-19 outbreak. “I was sitting in class and I got a call from my buddy who’s a fellow captain. And he is like, ‘Yeah, man, they cancelled our season.’ And I was like, […]
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Some Spectrum customers to lose wifi due to severed fiber cable
Some San Luis Obispo Spectrum customers lost access to wifi and cable when a contractor hit a fiber cable on Madonna Rd. around 10 a.m. this morning, according to a news release from Charter Communications. Spectrum is working on site to repair the fiber line, but they do not know how long it will take to […]
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San Luis Obispo County adds eight more coronavirus cases with 196 total
San Luis Obispo now has 196 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of Saturday, May 2 – up eight cases from yesterday, according to the County Public Health. Of the total cases, 39 patients are at home in isolation, 149 patients have recovered, seven are currently in the hospital. Three of the hospitalized patients are in […]
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ASI Board Chair investigated over payments to several committee chairs
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) is investigating potential ethical violations after political science junior and ASI Board of Directors Chair Rob Moore gave unauthorized $1,500 payments to four ASI Board members.