Your community newspaper brought to life.
Good Morning SLO is our platform for sharing ideas, news and inspiration. A monthly program that brings community leaders, business owners, nonprofit executives and staffers together, and enables us to reconnect, engage and learn from each other.
Our goal is to provide insight into business, community and legislative issues and share the stories of those making a difference. We want audience members to leave with ideas and information about how to better their personal and professional lives.
Good Morning SLO happens on the fourth Thursday of every month except November when it is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Thank you to this month’s featured sponsor:
YOUR VOTE COUNTED
How we vote is one of many things that have changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve invited SLO County Clerk-Recorder, Elaina Cano, to share insight into what these changes look like locally, how every legal vote is counted, and the systems in place that ensure every eligible citizen can vote.
GIMME SHELTER
A much needed temporary emergency shelter is about to open in Grover Beach. Janna Nichols, Executive Director of the 5Cities Homeless Coalition, will share the details of this ‘cabin shelter’ model, the partnership that got the project off the ground, and how it fits into the wide spectrum of shelter and housing needs of our community.
A LEGAL SYSTEM FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Grand Juries, a system that dates back to the Middle Ages, are now only employed by two countries: Liberia and the U.S. They are one of the least understood and most powerful tools in the civil and criminal legal systems, and we’ve asked SLO Superior Court Judge Craig van Rooyen to talk about how the civil grand jury system is used today.
WIND BENEATH OUR WINGS
With the threat of increasing temperatures and looming power shutoffs, one thing is certain: California needs all the renewable energy that we can get. We’ve invited Congressman Salud Carbajal to share an update on the next steps for not only offshore wind turbines, but the onshore infrastructure needed to support it.
OFFICE SPACE
Whether in newspaper articles or conversations around the water cooler, questions about the health of our SLO commercial real estate market never seem to slow down. Rod Trujillo, owner of Trujillo Commercial Real Estate Group, will talk about the reality he is seeing from the frontlines of our local real estate market.
100 YEARS OF LOCALLY GROWN
If our fields could talk, they’d share the folklore of SLO County: a history of dairy farms, droughts, bumper crops and Wild West tales. Thankfully, we have storyteller and Farm Bureau Executive Director Brent Burchett to take us back in time and look ahead to the future as they prepare to celebrate their 100-year anniversary.
STEVE KEY
We’ve invited Steve Key, singer, songwriter and producer of a live music series called Songwriters At Play, to start our morning with his critically-acclaimed music.
