Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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July 20, 2024 Ocean Water Closure Due to Sewage Release Avoid Water Contact and Wet Sand The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued an ocean water closure for the following area due to the release of approximately 15,000 gallons of untreated sewage: One mile north and one mile south of Ballona Creek. Public Health officials are advising residents or visitors planning to visit Los Angeles County beaches to avoid contact with ocean water and wet sand in the areas noted above. Ac...
July 23, 2024 - On Friday, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Mark Zuckman indicated he would like to recommend a diversion program for the suspect who reportedly attacked local business owner and community activist John Alle in Palisades Park last summer. Alle claims he was taking a short break from work by walking in the park along the ocean-side cliffs on Tuesday, September 19 at around 3 pm when the suspect, Tyler Jordan Keating, demanded his phone and his wallet and then sucker...
A group of young women are putting their feet to work, pedaling bicycles down the Pacific Coast, to raise awareness and funds for the struggle against sex trafficking. Hannah, Morgan, Tracy and Claire started in Seattle and will ride their bikes to San Diego to raise money for domestic sex trafficking prevention. We ran into them as they rose Sunday morning, after spending a night in Santa Monica. They were about to hit the road for the final leg of their ride down the Pacific Coast to San...
Video has emerged on social media showing an Atlantic humpback whale, deliberately upending a 27 foot small boat in the ocean near Portsmouth NH on Tuesday, 7.23.24. Another boater, a young man in a small boat, watches, then turns the wheel to run. Video may be seen at: https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1815817507879399892 The whale is described as "Pissed off;" the boater who posted it suggests that small boats avoid the area. It's uncertain if any humans (or whales) were injured in the incident....
July 23, 2024 Beach Closure and Ocean Water Use Warning for Los Angeles County Beaches The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health cautions residents who are planning to visit the below Los Angeles County beaches to avoid swimming, surfing, and playing in ocean waters: BEACH AREAS CLOSED: The following sites continue to remain closed due to a recent sewage discharge: Dockweiler State Beach, one mile south from Ballona Creek Venice Beach, one mile north from Ballona Creek BEACH AREA...
In a move that cannot really be described as surprising, Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 US presidential race. He said it had been his honor to serve with Kamala Harris, but stopped short of endorsing her for the Democratic presidential nomination. Nancy Pelosi among others, had lead a campaign demanding that the President not seek the Democratic nomination, which he easily won in the primary months ago. "There's a lot of fury by those who feel Joe was forced out," "If Kamala Harris is...
July 22, 2024 Excessive Heat Warning and Heat Advisory High Temperatures Forecast for Parts of Los Angeles County The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued an excessive heat warning as high temperatures have been forecast for the following areas: Northwest LA County Mountains: Friday July 19, 2024, through Thursday July 25, 2024 Western San Gabriel Mountains/Hwy 14 Corridor: Friday July 19, 2024, through Thursday July 25, 2024 East San Gabriel Mountains: Friday July 19, 2024, through...
The suspect in a wild car chase Wednesday that started in Hawthorne, was arrested along with 3 other men for a home invasion robbery last September. Daiyaan Henderson, 22, livestreamed yesterday's incident, where he lead police on a chase across Los Angeles and Bevelry Hills, all the while with his Baby Mama, Alexis Sanchez, pleading with him to stop. "You're going to kill our baby!" she pleaded, as Daiyaan argued with her. Alexis Sanchez left some rather risque pregnancy photos on Facebook....
Update, 7.23: Today Biden appeared in a video walking between airplanes after recovering from Covid. He said he would address the nation at 8 pm EST Wednesday, on his reasons for dropping out of the race. He appeared to be more or less alive, you know, for Joe Biden. 7.22: Rumors are flying that US President Joseph R. Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race last week, is in fact dead or dying. For one thing he looks like death warmed over, the last time he was seen in public. For...
7/12/24: Santa Monica Police recovered a 4 year old girl from a heavyset woman in her 30's who abducted the child from a resaurant in the 1900 block of Lincoln Blvd. Santa Monica Police released the following press release: This afternoon at 12:11 PM, the Santa Monica Police Department received a frantic call for help from a grandmother whose 4-year-old granddaughter had been kidnapped from a restaurant in the 1900 block of Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica. The first officers were on the scene...
July 10, 2024 - Well over three hundred employees of the City of Santa Monica had salaries of $200,000 and over in 2022, according to data obtained from a public records request by John Alle and the Santa Monica Coalition. The breakdown obtained by the organization of residents, property, and business owners concerned with public safety is as follows: 24 city employees made between $450K-$600K 40 made between $400K-$450K 56 made between $300K-$400K 256 made between $200K-$300K This adds up to 37...
Just before 1:30 Friday afternoon, Santa Monica Fire Engine 2 was en route to another unrelated call when they encountered an accident involving a pickup truck and a train at the intersection of Colorado Avenue and 11th Street. They reported that the driver was still inside and possibly trapped. Minutes after this report, first responders arrived on the scene and confirmed that the driver was still inside but did not need to be extricated from the vehicle. The driver was checked out by...
June 28, 2024 - The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to condemn a sign hung in a storefront on the Third Street Promenade that labels the city as unsafe and accuses City Manager David White of complicity in putting needles into the hands of drug addicts. The resolution has no legal impact and cannot force the store owner to take down the sign. The sign is sponsored by the Santa Monica Coalition, a group of residents and business and property owners. It says "Santa Methica is not...
In an event likely to shake up the US election yet again, an assassin fired two or more shots at President Donald J. Trump, as he was speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania. "Staged" was trending on Twitter, because the photo of Trump at the rally was too good to be true. "i wonder what the shooters pronouns are?" tweeted one person. "She, her – as in Hillary." How did a shooter get into a rally, and close enough to kill Trump? The answer is apparently he was not actually in the stadium in B...
We are waiting for the identity of the deceased shooter. However, blood in the stands behind where President Trump was shot in the head, marks the spot where the deceased spectator sat. One spectator killed, two more were seriously injured in the stands behind President Trump. Aftermath of assassination attempt in Butler PA on 7/13/24. Picture of the police snipers as they are taking out the Trump shooter. Clearly the shooter was an excellent shot with high tech equi[ment. He was at a distance...
Just before 3 am EST, the FBI released a statement identifying the shooter at the Trump rally in Butler, PA as Thomas Crooks. The 20 year old white male has links on social media, to several left wing progressive organizations. This from Laura Loomer on Twitter: "The shooter was named as Thomas Crooks of Bethel Park, PA in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan area. The National Pulse has found Federal Election Commission (FEC) data matching the name to a location in Bethel Park, which–if the same p...
The innocent Trump supporter who was killed at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania yesterday has been identified as Corey Comperatore. He was a former fire Chief. His daughter Alyson Comparatore posted this tribute to her now deceased father online. “The media will not tell you that he died a real-life super hero. They are not going to tell you how quickly he threw my Mom and I onto the ground. They are not going to tell you that he shielded my body from the bullet that came at us.” Here is the ent...
Hundreds of people participated in the 4th of July parade on Main Street this morning. All kinds of groups were represented in the event, which was sponsored by the Ocean Park Community Organization. Former mayor Judy Abdo was the grand Marshall. There were floats by Santa Monica College, SMC Emeritus college, Lighthouse church, as well as a Brazilian drumming group from Bahia. The Santa Monica Police Department's equestrian unit rode their horses in the parade. Sen. Ben Allen walked in the...
An effort to amend proposition 47, called the Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, will be on the ballot in November 2024. California Gov. Gavin Newsom wanted to place a rival measure on the ballot which would not have tolled back. On July 2nd, Newsom abandoned such efforts. Newsom confirmed in a statement that he is scrapping his plan to qualify a competing public safety measure for the upcoming November ballot. He says he had the votes but could not meet the deadline to...
July 8, 2024 Excessive Heat Warning High Temperatures Forecast for Parts of Los Angeles County The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued an excessive heat warning as high temperatures have been forecast for the following areas: Eastern Antelope Valley: Tuesday July 02, 2024, through Saturday July 13, 2024 Western Antelope Valley: Tuesday July 02, 2024, through Saturday July 13, 2024 Antelope Valley: Tuesday July 02, 2024, through Saturday July 13, 2024 Western San Gabriel Mountains/Hwy...
In a ruling that may seriously affect municipalities ability to regulate tent cities, The Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside, even if shelter space is lacking. "Today is a new day for California," tweeted Kevin Kiley. "The Supreme Court just gave our communities back the power to ban camping in public spaces. Homeless encampments can now be removed from our streets and parks. This overrules the disastrous Boise decision, which Newsom wanted to keep...
Two lanes of southbound Lincoln Blvd between Broadway and Olympic Blvd will be closed Wednesday, July 3rd and Friday, July 5th from 7 AM to 4:30 PM. Alternate route to I-10 East: Use Santa Monica Blvd to Cloverfield Blvd....
June 28, 2024 - At a lengthy city council meeting, the legislative body refused three attempts by Mayor Phil Brock to raise enough money to hire more police officers or otherwise increase the budget for public safety. Instead, they voted to ask for a study to be made regarding if and how to increase the public safety budget that they would revisit in September. A considerable portion of the meeting was devoted to discussing a resolution that a sign on the Third Street Promenade protesting lack o...
June 14, 2024 - Santa Monica College has received a legal complaint letter from nonpartisan education organization StandWithUS regarding two class assignments that they call bigoted, harassing, and ultimately illegal. StandWithUs supports Israel and fights antisemitism. The assignments involved are: (1) Professor Elias Serna's Ethnic Studies 1: Introduction to Ethnic Studies in which he asked, "What are your thoughts on the ongoing destruction and genocide by Israel in Palestine? What forms of...
June 26, 2024 - With the Santa Monica Police Department Daily Arrest Logs now online again, we decided to take a look at the numbers involving crime in this city. Using the 13 days of log reports available, from June 12 to June 24, we discovered that only a little over 4% of police calls end in arrests, that nearly half of arrests end in "cite outs," and that there are an average 7.15 arrests made per day. A "cite out" is when the police detain an individual on suspicion of having committed a cr...
