The wine industry represented 6.5 percent — or $1.9 billion — of San Luis Obispo County’s gross domestic product in 2015, according to a University of California, Davis study. The same study pointed out that more than 13,000 out of 136,000 jobs in the county are directly related to the hospitality industry sustained by wine tasters […]
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Carving barrels into pens in a basement
Most hobbies develop organically. Agricultural business junior Casey Martin’s hobby began because one day he decided that he needed one. Pens, bottle stops and corkscrews ship out from his one-man assembly line in the basement of his Mill Street home. Martin sells his handmade pens, usually made of wine barrel staves, through a website of […]
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Protests and demonstrations ensue in front of SLO Planned Parenthood
Both demonstrations carried out peacefully.
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Milo Yiannopoulos comes to Cal Poly, protests ensue
Protesters gathered outside of Spanos Theatre where Milo was giving a speech entitled “No More Dead Babies.”
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The missing minority: Why Cal Poly struggles to enroll more black students
There literally are no metal picks in SLO. For Cal Poly student Logan Kregness, that speaks to the city’s diversity problem.
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Mayor-elect Heidi Harmon discusses her surprise win
Harmon called the victory a surprise turnaround to a defeat she came to accept.
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A look into the Establishment
The communal living space called the Establishment at the corner of Leff and Santa Barbara streets has room for 19 tenants. Even when nobody is home, the Establishment is packed to the gills. The exterior of the place is hard to nail down. Overgrown trees shade the profile of the Establishment’s front wall. To see […]
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Spotlight editor Ben Bradlee Jr. in the spotlight at journalism gala
“We had them cold and they were doing some terrible things, and they deserved to be exposed,” Bradlee said.
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Julia Morgan and the Monday Club: How a building can teach you about humility
Morgan, the small architect with the soft voice who quietly designed more than 700 buildings, including Hearst Castle.
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Anjelah Johnson returns to Cal Poly for some laughs
Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. at the PAC. Tickets are available at the Cal Poly ticket office website.
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Artists to be announced soon for Spring Stampede 2016
Anticipated artists are close to confirmed, but ASI doesn’t want to release information that is not completely guaranteed.