Good morning. It’s Friday, and I’m reading about the plight of Cal Poly’s standing as a mid-major basketball team. Onto the five Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California stories you need to know for today.

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Mustang News Endorsement Board urged students to vote for Tanner Schinderle for ASI president in next week’s election over Caleb Shick. Schinderle is the current chief of staff for the ASI president’s executive cabinet and displays both more leadership experience, a more clear vision about how he can implement his initiatives and better existing partnerships with departments around campus, the endorsement board argued. The board said that Schinderle’s approach is to expand the reach of student government rather than pitch unrealistic cuts like Shick.

Mustang News Endorsement Board / Mustang News

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SLO Council of Governments proposed a train that would run from SLO to Oakland, starting with a pilot during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The idea is to minimize highway congestion while people explore other parts of California when in town for the Olympics. If successful, it could become a permanent service. There’s no funding for the proposal just yet, but Olympics funds or a federal earmark could cover the $15 million project.

Kendra Hanna / KCBX

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The Coastal Commission published a strategy document for how a proposed offshore wind farm could coexist with the state’s fishing communities. Fisheries and those involved in the offshore project seemed pleased with the product, and labor unions are happy with the jobs the wind farm would create on the Central Coast. One opposition group is making their voices heard about the web of cables under water that could endanger whales and says the jobs are too short term to matter.

Valentina Saldaña / KSBY

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Your concert tickets could be cheaper next year if California passes two proposed bills. The first caps how much resellers can jack up the price from the original, and the second bars people from selling tickets before they own them, an issue flagged when reseller SZA tickets went for $600 the day before they actually dropped for $35. Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation, is oddly in support of the bill, raising questions about if it would help eliminate their competition. Nonetheless, the bills look promising.

Cayla Mihalovich / CalMatters

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Darwin isn’t a ghost town. The small, shabby 1870s-founded is an arts hub in the desert tucked away outside Death Valley National Park. Its residents each discovered it in a different way, usually brought there by friends, family or lovers. Each stayed. But the schoolhouse remains childless and the population is rapidly aging, with one of the youngest people there 43 years old — most are much older. The town-wide water system requires manual labor to operate and maintain, and they desperately want young people to move in and keep their town from becoming one.

Tessa McLean / SFGate