Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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February 9, 2026--As the echoes of Super Bowl LX fade from Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California-where the New England Patriots faced off against the Seattle Seahawks in a highly anticipated rematch-the question lingers for fans still reeling from the price tags: Were those eye-popping resale figures really what it cost to attend the big game? Viral clips and social media posts circulated widely in the lead-up to Sunday's championship, with attendees boasting (or...
Santa Monica, CA - February 9, 2026 - A group of local residents and neighborhood organizations has formally questioned the validity of a December 17, 2025, Santa Monica City Council vote approving development agreements for an affordable housing project with the Hollywood Community Housing Corporation (HCHC). The vote, listed as Agenda Item 11.A, approved a 99-year ground lease on city-owned land at 14th Street and committed $13.5 million from the city's Housing Trust Fund...
Buying Instagram followers is now a practical shortcut for content creators, influencers, and small businesses looking to gain momentum in a crowded social media space. It boosts Instagram presence visibility, signals social proof, and can spark engagement rates that nudge long-term follower growth. If you approach it thoughtfully with a solid marketing strategy, buying followers can really speed up social proof and free up time-while giving your quality content a better shot...
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Traci Park announced today that a long-standing nuisance involving an illegally parked recreational vehicle (RV) on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice has finally been resolved. In an Instagram post shared earlier today, Councilwoman Park, who represents Council District 11 including Venice, highlighted the RV that had been blocking traffic for months. Accompanying photos showed the vehicle in question and presumably its removal. Park wrote. "In...
The Catalina Island Conservancy's plan to remove all mule deer from Santa Catalina Island has moved forward with state approval, marking a significant - and highly controversial - step in the nonprofit's long-term effort to restore the island's native ecosystem. In late January 2026, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) approved the Conservancy's Restoration Management Permit (RMP), a comprehensive document that authorizes the complete eradication of the...
February 6, 2026 -- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has strongly denied allegations that she intervened to soften or alter key sections of an official after-action report on the devastating January 2025 Palisades Fire, which claimed multiple lives and destroyed thousands of structures across the Westside. A Los Angeles Times investigation published February 4 cited sources familiar with the mayor's office who claimed Bass flagged early drafts of the report as potentially exposing...
A tragic accident occurred on Thursday, February 5, 2026, when a 92-year-old woman lost control of her vehicle and crashed into the 99 Ranch Market in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, killing three people and injuring six others. The incident took place shortly after noon near the intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Rochester Avenue. Authorities reported that the driver, operating a silver Mercedes sedan (though some early reports mentioned a different make),...
Fairfield, California — February 5, 2026 — Anheuser-Busch, the nation's largest beer producer, is set to permanently close its longstanding brewery in Fairfield later this month, marking the end of nearly 50 years of operations at the site and affecting approximately 238 local employees. The facility at 3101 Busch Drive, which opened in 1976, will cease production between February 9 and February 22, 2026, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) fili...
- 18% of THE WHOLE COUNTRY'S home health care billing is coming out of Los Angeles County - One doctor billed the government $120 million in a single year claiming to oversee 1,900 patients Los Angeles County has drawn significant attention from federal officials due to concerns over potential fraud in the Medicare hospice and home health care sectors. Recent reports indicate that the county accounts for approximately 18% of the nation's total Medicare billing for these...
Santa Monica Airport reverts to the City on January 1, 2028 after 120 years as an airport. A few residents want to turn it into high density housing or a park or both. Others want to keep it an airport. A new poll reveals that they are in the majority. A newly released independent poll indicates that a solid majority of Santa Monica voters want to keep the Santa Monica Airport (KSMO) operating in some form, directly challenging years of city planning that has leaned toward...
The City of Santa Monica has filed a lawsuit seeking approximately $18 million in restitution and penalties against a landlord and his family, accusing them of illegally converting dozens of rent-controlled apartments into short-term rentals listed on Airbnb and VRBO. This action continues the city's enforcement efforts against illegal short-term rentals to protect its rent-controlled housing stock, explained the City Attorney in a press release. In a complaint filed on...
A Waymo robotaxi hit a child near Grant Elementary School on January 23 during morning drop-off hours. The low-speed incident (vehicle slowed from 17 mph to 6 mph) caused minor injuries after the child entered the roadway from behind a double-parked SUV. Federal regulators (NHTSA) opened an investigation, highlighting ongoing concerns about self-driving cars in school zones. A Waymo autonomous vehicle struck a child near Grant Elementary School in Santa Monica on January 23,...
San Francisco, CA – In a quintessential Bay Area moment blending urban life with wild surprises, a young mountain lion was safely tranquilized and captured in the upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, after days of sightings that captivated-and concerned-residents. But the story took an even more ironic twist when a coyote casually strolled into the frame during a live television report on the big cat's removal. The 2-year-old, 77-pound male m...
Minneapolis, MN – January 28, 2026 - Newly surfaced video footage has revealed an earlier confrontation involving Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the 37-year-old intensive care nurse fatally shot by federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026. The video, which appears to have been recorded on January 13, 2026-11 days before Pretti's death-shows a man identified by multiple sources as Pretti engaging in aggressive behavior toward U.S. I...
The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a federal lawsuit accusing the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) of using race as a factor in its admissions process, in violation of federal civil rights laws and California's long-standing ban on affirmative action.In a statement released on January 28, 2026, the Justice Department announced it was joining the existing class-action suit originally filed in May 2025 by Students...
San Francisco, CA - January 27, 2026 - Authorities are monitoring a rare urban wildlife incident after a young mountain lion was captured on security camera footage prowling streets in the upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood late Sunday night, January 25, 2026. San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC) confirmed the sighting near Lafayette Park, located near Gough and Sacramento streets. The animal, estimated to be about one year old and described as a subadult, appeared...
A viral TikTok video by content creator John Hicks has once again drawn national attention to the persistent homelessness crisis in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), showcasing stark scenes of encampments, trash accumulation, and large numbers of unhoused individuals filling the streets, particularly in and around the Skid Row area.In the clip, titled along the lines of "What it's like in LA after dark" and posted on Hicks' account (@john_hicks ), the creator rides an e-bike...
January 25, 2026 - A massive winter storm unofficially named Winter Storm Fern by The Weather Channel has unleashed heavy snow, freezing rain, ice, and Arctic cold across a vast swath of the United States, impacting more than 230 million people from Texas and the Southwest to the Northeast and parts of Canada. The storm, which originated from an upper-level low developing over the Pacific near Baja California around January 22, has traversed much of the country, prompting...
Federal transportation funding, CDL enforcement, and capacity signals are reshaping the freight market for 2026 While many supply chain leaders focused on the peak shopping season, holiday sales, and returns, transportation policy and freight market dynamics continued to move quickly. Over the past month, a series of announcements from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), along with emerging capacity signals in the trucking market, point to a more regulated,...
San Jose, CA – A five-day rampage of armed robberies, carjackings, and high-speed pursuits came to a violent end on January 21, 2026, when 30-year-old Muhammed Hussein of Davis opened fire on San Jose police officers, seriously wounding a sergeant before being struck by a patrol vehicle and killed in a downtown shootout. According to San Jose Police Department officials, Hussein – identified following the incident – began his crime spree on January 17 in Sacramento, where...
LOS ANGELES — It took ten years just to approve the plan for a long awaited train from Van Nuys to Westwood, along the 405 Freeway. It'll add half a cent to LA's sales tax, and there still isn't nearly $25 billion to fund it. They tell us it will take eight years to build it, but it will really take say, 25. But finally the MTA said yes. On January 22, 2026, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) Board of Directors unanimously approved the L...
Santa Monica Observer – January 22, 2026 In an incident widely reported on social media, a homeless woman gave birth directly on a downtown Santa Monica sidewalk late last week, with the aftermath still visible two days later. According to witnesses and local business owners along Main Street, the woman - who appeared to be experiencing significant distress and was reportedly not wearing pants - exited a nearby Starbucks and walked a short distance before collapsing near a t...
New York, January 22, 2026 - Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and a central figure in the dramatic 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been released from federal custody. The 31-year-old completed approximately 440 days - roughly 14 months - of her original two-year prison sentence, walking free on January 21, 2026, according to records from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and multiple reports. Ellison began her sentence in November...
California Governor Gavin Newsom attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2026, where he criticized international leaders for what he described as excessive deference to President Donald Trump. During remarks to reporters on the sidelines of the event, Newsom urged global figures to "stand tall and firm" and "have a backbone" rather than engage in what he called "complicity" or "appeasement" toward Trump. He likened the president's approach to...
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia - Towns across Russia's remote Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have been engulfed by historic snowfall, with accumulations exceeding seven feet in many areas and massive drifts reaching several meters high. The extreme weather, described as the heaviest in over 60 years, has buried vehicles, blocked roads and building entrances, and forced authorities to declare a state of emergency. The relentless storms, driven by powerful cyclones from the...
