Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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For assistance forming an LLC with your State's Secretary of State, we recommend visiting Signature Filing. They will help you file it quickly and completely online. Sometimes a limited liability company, or LLC, has a year with no business activity. For example, a newly formed LLC might not have started doing business yet, or an older LLC might have become inactive without being formally dissolved. However, even if an inactive LLC has no income or expenses for a year, it...
For assistance forming your corporation or writing corporate bylaws, we recommend that you utilize the services of Signature Filing. File easily online at a minimal cost. Whether it's for sales meetings, trade shows, or conferences, travel is important for any business. But with increasing costs and a remote work model, corporate travel has become more complicated than ever. This is why a corporate travel policy, or a set of guidelines to ensure your team is efficient with...
May 9, 2025 - An email sent out from Northeast Neighbors requests parents and other residents to protest the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District's plan to remove natural grass at two elementary schools and replace it with "synthetic turf" made in Dubai. "TenCate makes a product in Dubai they call "sustainable synthetic grass." Santa Monica-Malibu school district has chosen to install it at Franklin and Grant elementary schools. TenCate claims their plastic grass is...
May 6, 2025: India and Pakistan are not officially at war, but tensions are extremely high, and military actions have occurred, bringing the two nations to the brink of conflict. Here's a detailed breakdown: Recent Military Actions On May 7, 2025, India conducted a significant military operation named Operation Sindoor, where the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force jointly carried out missile strikes on nine terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). This was...
Update 5/6/25: According to a Newsweek article (published at 10:10 AM PDT on May 6, 2025), the university has already taken a firm stance against the activists’ actions, explicitly opposing antisemitism and confirming the arrests of around 30 individuals. The university’s statement indicates a crackdown on the protest, likely in response to the property damage (dumpster fires) and the occupation of the engineering building. Footage mentioned in the article also shows pro...
If you're looking for your next adrenaline-packed adventure or family outing, then get ready to level up on the Westside. Player One VR World has officially unlocked its doors at the Westfield Century City mall, bringing a cutting-edge lineup of virtual reality experiences to Los Angeles. Already a hit at its Santa Monica and Hollywood locations, Player One VR World is spawning, and trust us - you're going to want to check it out. We recently visited the brand-new Century...
A number of cars were reportedly smashed by an older driver in a hit and run on 21st Street and Pearl, in a quiet Sunset Park neighborhood Sunday Afternoon, May 4th 2025. "Urgent!! This car just smashed through the neighborhood and hit and ran a bunch of cars on Pearl and 21st and I chased him to get license plate info!" wrote one poster on Social Media. "It was a gray Toyota Highlander. It should have front left and damage now. An older man, 65+ white short hair, short white...
Rite-Aid Drugstore will close permanently on May 28th, 2025, a store employee confirmed for The Observer. The Rite Aid at 1331 Wilshire Boulevard, near the intersection of Wilshire and 14th Street in Santa Monica, is scheduled to close permanently at the end of May 2025. A notice posted at the store indicates that prescriptions will be transferred to the CVS at 1411 Lincoln Blvd starting May 29, 2025. The store remains open with normal hours as of May 5 2025, but many shelves...
The fentanyl epidemic is most closely associated with drug users—often people who became addicted after being prescribed opioids for pain or injury. However, as abuse rates have increased, fentanyl has turned into a crisis for first responders, property managers, and maintenance workers who have to deal with the aftermath, Trauma Services reports. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioids such as fentanyl were involved in 55,529 unintentional o...
Pickup trucks with trailers and cars with yawning trunks pulled up onto untended lawns in front of buildings from which people lugged books, furniture, mattresses, trophy cases and artwork. Anything else of value had already been sold by a company that specializes in auctioning off the leftover assets of failed businesses. At least one of the buildings was soon to be demolished altogether, its red-brick walls dumped into its 1921 foundation. This was the unceremonious end of...
The number of people purchasing and using electric vehicles in the United States reached record levels in 2024, thanks to a combination of federal, state, and local incentives and growing awareness about the impact of greenhouse gases on climate change. However, recent moves by the Trump administration to curb incentives to buy EVs, such as tax credits, pause federal fleets' adoption of EVs, and implement tariffs on EV parts is threatening continued growth. EVs occupied...
In 2021, Chicago launched a counterterrorism initiative to teach city employees to respond to life-threatening injuries caused by dangerous events, like mass shootings. To do that, the city installed more than 1,000 blood control kits in over 500 municipal buildings. Since then, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications has grown the program by partnering with other agencies and departments. The expanded effort, community leaders say, serves a critical purpose:...
Gerardo Valerio had been looking for a bathroom in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood for 20 minutes when he stumbled across a blue and white trailer with "FREE BATHROOM" at the top. At first, he was hesitant to enter the bathroom, which had been installed by the Washington, D.C.-based portable toilet startup Throne. To get in, he had to scan a QR code which pre-loaded a text onto his phone. After sending the text, the door would automatically slide open. "What do I text,...
Everyone from grade school students to proud pet owners quotes the statistic that one dog year equals seven human years. It's considered axiomatic, but, as it turns out, that's not accurate. Really, experts say it's more accurate to compare the first year of a dog's life to 15 years of a human's, the second year to nine human years, and every year after that to five human years. The math gets even more complicated when factoring in the dog's size: Bigger dogs start to age...
The website that lets Californians shop for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, coveredca.com, has been sending sensitive data to LinkedIn, forensic testing by The Markup has revealed. As visitors filled out forms on the website, trackers on the same pages told LinkedIn their answers to questions about whether they were blind, pregnant, or used a high number of prescription medications. The trackers also monitored whether the visitors said they were transgender or...
Aspiration during surgery doesn't happen often, but when it does, it can cause serious health problems. In some cases, it's the result of a medical error, which could point to malpractice. Patients dealing with a potential malpractice claim often feel confused and unsure about what to do next. If you or someone you care about has experienced aspiration during a procedure, it's important to understand your rights, Fibich Leebron Copeland & Briggs notes. Speaking with a...
In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a quiet revolution in end-of-life practices is underway. At Ramsey Creek Preserve near Westminster, South Carolina, the deceased do not rest under rows of cold marble, but beneath meadows and oaks, their presence woven into the natural world, Reasons to be Cheerful says. The first body Billy Campbell buried on his land was the stillborn child of friends. Then a colleague who died suddenly in a car accident "solidified the...
Remember when we transitioned from calling it "surfing the internet" to "Googling"? It was one of those moments when technology became so ingrained in our lives that it became a verb. "QR-ing" may be on a similar trajectory. Once an underdog of the tech world, QR codes are now a core tool for businesses across industries—not just in marketing but in operations, logistics, security, healthcare, and internal workflows. According to Uniqode's State of QR Codes 2025 report, 59% o...
Stunning as it may sound, nearly half of Americans ages 20 years and up—or more than 122 million people—have high blood pressure, according to a 2023 report from the American Heart Association. And even if your numbers are normal right now, they are likely to increase as you age; more than three-quarters of Americans age 65 and older have high blood pressure. Also known as hypertension, high blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Most Americans don...
KaTiedra Argro has been on a mission: restore her school's reputation as a premier Philadelphia educational institution where young women hone their skills, excel as leaders, and find their voices. The principal of the Philadelphia High School for Girls spent last fall visiting 48 elementary and middle schools to recruit students. She went all over the city, from Northeast to Southwest, to sell kids on an historic all-girls school that was founded 13 years before the Civil War...
Throughout May, high school and college students across the country are finishing their final exams, donning their commencement robes, and shaking and taking their degrees to start the next chapter of their lives. But they aren't the only ones closing a door—in May 2025, 46 movies are tossing their streaming caps and graduating from Netflix, just without the same pomp and circumstance. There are quite a few reasons a movie can get dropped from a streamer like Netflix; p...
5/1/25: Santa Monica police arrested a 30 year-old homeless man for punching a 70-year-old woman on the promenade, knocking her down. The man who is not immediately identified, tried to run from officers, and they pursued him through the promenade. He protested that he had done nothing, and that he was on probation. There are several reported incidents involving assaults by homeless individuals in the Santa Monica area, including near the Third Street Promenade and...
Please don't eat recreationally harvested shellfish, including mussels, oysters, clams, and scallops, from Santa Monica Bay and other Southern California coastal areas due to toxic algae blooms. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued advisories indicating that dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins, caused by naturally occurring algae, have been detected in recreationally harvested shellfish from Santa Barbara to San Diego...
