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Meet SLO County’s new CAO: He’s faced down fires, a pandemic and a smear campaign | Opinion
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors did the right thing when it hired Matthew Pontes as the new administrative officer, rather than automatically disqualifying him over a 30-year-old criminal conviction he acquired as a 20-year-old.
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