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  • Ten Reasons To Love Tiffany Trump, Despite Being the Black Sheep of the Family

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated May 20, 2023

    Tiffany Trump is enormously popular, much more so than any other recent Presidential daughter. This despite not living in the White House, or being a mere half sister to her flashy siblings. Sweetness alone doesn't explain her magnetism, so here are the Top Ten Reasons to Love Tiffany Trump, despite that fact that she's the black sheep of her family: 1.Tiffany's mom is Marla Maples, Trump's second wife, and Tiffany is the image of her mother. Apparently their relationship star...

  • Ivanka Just Got An Office In The West Wing. Tiffany Trump Deserves One, Too

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Mar 22, 2017

    The big item on the national news wire tonight is that Ivanka Trump is getting an office in the West Wing of the White House. Well, Ok, the big item was James Comey was testifying to Congress, something about James Clapper's trip to Russia and a brokerage fee paid on a 19% interest in Rosneft. But the big news that even though she will not accept a salary, Tiffany Trump, long her Father's advisor in business, will get an office on the second floor of the West Wing next to...

  • Platte Library in Wisconsin Referencing the Epic Oscar Fail by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Mar 7, 2017

    Someone at the Platte, Wisconsin Public Library has an eye on the Oscars and a sense of humor. Not bad for an account with less than 200 followers, but 1000 likes! Lulu in La La Land, Oops! Midnight all in a row at the Platte, Wisconsin public library. Platteville Library @PlattevillePL If you enjoyed the #Oscars last night, here's some library book recommendations! #librarylife 7:32 AM - 27 Feb 2017 1,239 1,239 Retweets 2,102 2,102 likes Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye...

  • Emmy Award Winning TV Producer Convicted of Stabbing His Own Tenant

    Sarah Storkin|Updated Feb 12, 2017

    When the victim laughed at the victim's prospects to win Emmy's, the TV producer stabbed him. And the TV producer had won an Emmy, writing about a tenant who had been stabbed by his landlord. No really. It actually happened. A jury found an Emmy-winning television producer guilty today of stabbing his Studio City tenant, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Elan S. Carr said Andre Salamán Bautista, aka Andre Bauth, 38, was...

  • We Have Detected 234 Alien Civilizations, Say Laval, Cornell University Astronomers

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Dec 31, 2016

    Two Cornell University astronomers have published a paper postulating that light modulations visible in 234 stars, are most likely signals generated by Extraterrestrial Intelligence. https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03031 If true, this is the most important scientific discovery since the fall of the Roman Empire. Last September, a signal from space that seemed to be of extraterrestrial origin, turned out to be from a Russian satellite. This signal, however, is from an entire class...

  • Woman Alleges MTA Employees Left Her for Dead on Blue Line Train

    Sarah Storkin|Updated Dec 18, 2016
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    A civil lawsuit was filed against the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority ("LACMTA") today by a 57-year-old woman who was the victim of an unprovoked, racially-motivated verbal and physical attack while riding the Blue Line train home from work in the evening. The police have classified the attack as a hate crime. The lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court. In the complaint, the plaintiff, Nidia Romero, alleges that three individuals began aggressively...

  • Breitbart Accuses Betsy DeVos, Trump Education Secretary, of Supporting Common Core

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Nov 24, 2016

    Breitbart news accuses President Elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Education, as a supporter of Common Core. Amway co-founder Betsy DeVos is a billionaire known for her philanthropy. She's also a grandmother and a person who has been involved in educational groups and causes for a long time. Trump promised to do away with common core, which is a popular opinion among his conservative, rural, blue collar base. This from Breitbart.com: "Anti-Common Core...

  • Forward-Thinking Soledad High School is Going Solar, Says School District

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Sep 19, 2016

    The Soledad Unified School District approved a contract with OpTerra Energy Services, Inc. (OpTerra Energy Services) at its last board meeting of August to design and construct the first solar project at Soledad High School. The project is funded through a $2 million, zero percent interest loan from the California Energy Commission and is expected to be completed by February 2017. It is estimated that the project will generate over 745,000 kWh of clean electric energy, which...

  • Samsung Smartphones Recall: Serious Fire and Burn Hazards

    Sarah Storkin, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission|Updated Sep 19, 2016

    Consumers should immediately stop using and power down the recalled Galaxy Note7 devices purchased before September 15, 2016. Samsung has received 92 reports of the batteries overheating in the U.S., including 26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage, including fires in cars and a garage. This recall involves the Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone sold before September 15, 2016. The recalled devices have a 5.7 inch screen and were sold in the following colors: black...

  • Suicide Prevention: New State of the Art Mental Health Crisis and Resource Tool

    Sarah Storkin|Updated Sep 13, 2016

    In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, the Therapy Live team has released a new tool that is designed to save more lives. Located at www.Therapy.Live/Suicide, visitors will find a state of the art interactive map to assist clinicians and visitors to locate crisis resource centers within their communities. "I am very proud of the tireless work that our team has invested towards our mission of altering the trajectory of mental health delivery and saving lives. Today's new...

  • Eliminating the Mosquito is Technically Possible: Why Not Just Do It?

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Aug 22, 2016
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    Thousands of species feed on the blood of various kinds of hosts, mainly vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even some kinds of fish. Some mosquitoes also attack invertebrates, mainly arthropods. Though the loss of blood is seldom of any importance to the victim, the saliva of the mosquito often causes an irritating rash that is a serious nuisance. Much more serious though, are the roles of many species of mosquitoes as vectors of diseases. In...

  • How the Black Lives Matter Movement Became Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Aug 9, 2016
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    The Black Lives Matter movement stands to lose potential support from influential Jewish organizations after release of a platform that slanders Israel. The activist movement associated with protests across the nation in support of blacks wrongfully killed by white and white police officers recently released a lengthy platform of principles. Among those, catalogued under "Invest-Divest," is this statement, filled with old and oft-refuted canards against the Jewish state: "The...

  • McClure Tunnel Closed Tonight For Maintenance

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Editor|Updated Jul 12, 2016

    PCH Will have intermittent lane closures tonight after 10 pm to 5 am, from the McClure Tunnel to Malibu, for cleaning and maintenance. This was in a tweet from the California Department of Transportation, or CalTrans. The McClure Tunnel is a tunnel in Santa Monica, California, that connects Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1) to the terminus of the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10). The tunnel passes underneath the intersection of Colorado Avenue and Ocean Avenue, and...