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Articles from the March 11, 2021 edition


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  • Religion and Sunday Morning in Prison

    Amber S. Jackson, Lucky Lifer|Mar 11, 2021

    Since I had my first job at age 17, I always prefer to have Sundays and Mondays as my days off from work. It's a calm day so far. No prison staff vexing the population. Most guards prefer to do their jobs by simply being present and allowing the prison population to run itself, which it does, unless something unusual happens. So, officers do not like when they are made to unnecessarily search or do sweeps with no clear valid reasoning. The best way to pass time in prison, whether you're a guard...

  • Does Paying FICA Tax Now Increase My Benefit?

    Rusty Gleer, Association of Mature American Citizens|Mar 11, 2021

    Ask Rusty – Does Paying FICA Tax Now Increase My Benefit? Dear Rusty: If a person retires at age sixty-six and continues to work full time, Social Security taxes are still taken out of his weekly paycheck. Will this taxation for Social Security contribute more to the person's Social Security benefit, even if already retired? Signed: Curious Retiree Dear Curious Retiree: Since its inception in 1935, Social Security has been a "pay as you go" program where contributions from those who are w...

  • The Donut Life Museum Transforms into a Place Where You Can Escape

    C. Victor

    The Donut Life Museum, founded by Kathy Ly and co-founders Alix Luu and Brian Ross, was created to "Make Life Sweet Again" and is the place where anyone can connect, be happy and make memories. Its mission is to create an interactive and memorable experience that alludes to major experiences of human life told through the creative world of donuts. Donut Life Museum announced that it will be transitioning from a pop-up museum into a creative space that encourages people to use their imagination...

  • Julia Morgan Legacy Event Goes Virtual

    Courtesy of Annenberg Community Beachhouse

    Julia Morgan Legacy Event Sunday, March 21 3 - 4 pm - Julia Morgan and the Men Who Built Hearst Castle The Annenberg Community Beach House and Santa Monica Conservancy present a special commemoration of architect Julia Morgan, California's first licensed woman architect. Noted for her collaboration with William Randolph Hearst to create Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Morgan left a legacy of more than 700 projects in her nearly five decades of practice. Posthumously awarded the AIA's highest honor,...

  • Make March Matter Campaign Rallies Celebrities and Businesses across Fashion, Fitness, Restaurants, and More to Support the Life-Saving Care CHLA Provides.

    C. Victor

    Children's Hospital Los Angeles (#1 children's hospital on the west coast and top 5 in the country) has launched their 6th Annual Make March Matter Campaign, a national campaign that rallies celebrities and businesses across fashion, fitness, restaurants, and more to support the life-saving care the hospital provides. In order to maintain their lifesaving programs at CHLA and provide care for all children(regardless of health insurance), the hospital hosts this annual fundraising initiative -...

  • California Quietly Okays Vaccines for Inmate Population; Nobody is Willing to Say They Made the Decision or Talk About it

    Alyssa Erdley, News with Attitude|Mar 11, 2021

    March 9, 2021 - The California Department of Corrections, which runs the state's prisons quietly began offering Covid-19 vaccines to the staff and also incarerated individuals at the state's prisons on December 22, 2020. Vaccinations for frontline workers, the first given in the state, only began shortly before this date. Individuals over 65 years old were not eligible to sign up to get the vaccine until mid-January. As of March 7, there have been 42,397 inmates who have received the vaccine...

  • Puppy Stolen at Gunpoint by Three Men, One Armed, on the Venice Boardwalk

    Stan Greene, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 11, 2021

    Lady Gaga’s English Bulldogs were stolen from her on February 24th and later recovered. But this is apparently not the only case of guns being used in canine robberies. “My roommate was walking the dog on the Venice Boardwalk in the early evening on February 19th,” say RJ. “when he was approached by three young men. One of them was armed. “My roommate said he decided not to pursue them, having just had a pistol pointed at his chest. Once they got the dog, they walked away.” What was the motivat...

  • 30-days for Involuntary Hospitalization for Mental Illness Mulled In Ventura County; Palm Springs Machete Killer Released Early; Fire and Vandalism at Japanese Buddhist Temple, and Other Stories: Monday Morning Memo

    Association of Deputy District Attorneys|Mar 11, 2021

    Courts & Rulings Judge rules victims lack standing to seek recusal of District Attorney's office Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christopher Smith has rebuffed the plea by family members of two slain females, who were half-sisters, to recuse the Office of Los Angeles County District Attorney in pending Juvenile Court proceedings against the alleged killer, now an adult, ruling that they lack standing to seek such relief. Metropolitan News-Enterprise Mandatory bar fees could violate attorneys'...

  • Protest of the Tigray War At the Federal Building in Westwood.

    Mary Leipziger, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 11, 2021

    A protest of the Tigray War took place at the Federal Building in Westwood Saturday. The conflict over a semitic ethnic minority in Eritrea, has led to accusations of war crimes against both sides. The Tigray War is an ongoing armed conflict that began around midnight of 3–4 November 2020 in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is between the Tigray Regional Government, led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) aided by the Ethiopian F...

  • Hail Falls in Santa Monica, West LA During Wednesday Evening Storm

    Stan Greene, Observer Staff Writer|Mar 11, 2021

    A winter storm rolled through So Cal early Wednesday morning and into Thursday night. The storm brought a rare burst of hail in Santa Monica. According to some social media reports, it was the first hail that fell in SM since 2015. Some mountain areas received over a foot of snow, while on-and-off rain fell in low-lying areas throughout the rest of the region. Several pockets of the Southland saw heavy rainfall and lightning strikes Wednesday morning, including Glendale and Burbank. Hail was...