Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Roads around Santa Monica Place in downtown Santa Monica are blocked off today as crews install large electronic billboards on the exterior of the shopping center. The work is part of the city's new Digital Display District, which permits up to 16 digital screens-each as large as 1,000 square feet-on corner buildings along the Third Street Promenade and on four faces of Santa Monica Place. The City Council approved the ordinance in late 2025 (final adoption in January 2026),...
Did California Democrats cheat to win the election in California? I mean, not that they have to. But the math isn't mathing. In the days after California's November 3, 2026, social media posts about the general election highlighted unusually consistent margins across major statewide races pitting Democrats against Republicans. Screenshots circulating widely showed candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, controller, treasurer, and attorney general all...
The Pipe-Smoking Ninth Grader Who Became Chief of Staff I was Stephen Miller's first boss. In 2001–2002 a 15- or 16-year-old Santa Monica High School student walked into the offices of the Santa Monica Observer and asked if he could write local editorials. That kid was Steve Miller. Even then he was serious, cerebral, quiet, and studied. At an age when most teenagers think about baseball or girls, he was reading, thinking, and writing about policy. He showed up in a jacket and...
Nithya Raman, a 45-year-old Democratic socialist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has been elected mayor of Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest city. She defeated one-term incumbent Karen Bass in the November 3, 2026, general election. With roughly 76% of expected votes counted as of Thursday, November 5, Raman held approximately 52% of the vote (about 429,450 votes) to Bass's 48% (about 394,796 votes), a lead of roughly 35,000 votes. Bass concede...
The wind off the Pacific still carried the faint, sweet-rot smell of ash. I parked in the PCH parking lot at Will Rogers State Beach, where the road narrowed and walked the last quarter-mile down the slope to what had been the Palisades Bowl. The mobile-home park featuring wide views of the blue Pacific, sat in a shallow bowl of eucalyptus and ice plant; now the bowl held only concrete pads, blackened trailer frames twisted into question marks, and the occasional scorched...
As of the latest results released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, around 4:28–4:30 p.m. PST, City Councilmember Nithya Raman has widened her lead over incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the nonpartisan runoff. - Nithya Raman 405,193 votes (51.67%) - Karen Bass: 379,069 votes (48.33%) Raman’s margin is approximately 26,124 votes out of roughly 784,000 ballots counted so far (about 67% of the expected total). Bass...
GREENACRES, Fla. - A Learjet 60 carrying nine people plunged from the sky in a steep, high-speed dive and exploded in a massive fireball on impact in a mobile home park near West Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon. The incident was captured in dramatic dashcam video, and air traffic control audio has circulated widely showing the crew's final, panicked transmissions. The aircraft, registered N722BD, had departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas earlier in the day...
How exactly did James Talarico, a man who believes God is non-binary and who disappeared for 2 weeks prior to the election, outpoll Kamala Harris by 500,000 votes? Something is rotten in the State of Texas. And Georgia, Kansas, Iowa, Maine, California not to mention Michigan. In the hours after the November 3, 2026, midterm elections, social media filled with skepticism over Democratic gains in traditionally Republican strongholds. Users pointed to results in Texas, where...
Early returns from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk show leading positions for three City Council candidates, clear frontrunners for the Rent Control Board, and Measure ES trailing, based on semi-final results posted at results.lavote.gov as of 3:11 a.m. on November 4, 2026. These figures cover ballots processed so far in the November 3, 2026, General Election. A total of 2,147,243 ballots have been counted countywide, representing 36.34% turnout. Semi-fi...
Updated California 2026 election results (as of roughly 6:30 a.m. PST on November 4, 2026). []( ) These figures come from the California Secretary of State’s unofficial tallies (23,837 of 23,860 precincts partially reporting, or about 99.9%) and consistent reporting from outlets such as NBC News, the Associated Press, KQED, and others. Results remain preliminary; vote-by-mail, provisional, and other ballots continue to be counted during the canvass. Final certification is d...
An elderly man died Tuesday afternoon after falling from a scooter and striking his head at the corner of 20th Street, according to accounts from people who passed the scene in the aftermath. The incident occurred around 3:30 p.m. on the block that includes a medical building next to St. John's Hospital. Witnesses described seeing police cordon off the area following the fall. The man, who had been riding the scooter, hit his head in the fall and later died. No other details...
On October 29, 2026, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Santa Monica Police Department officers responded to Parking Structure 5 near Broadway and 4th Street after receiving a report of an individual experiencing a mental health crisis. Officers made contact with the person at the scene. The individual was subsequently taken into police custody and transported for a medical evaluation, consistent with procedures for welfare checks and crisis interventions under California law....
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A man accused of fatally shooting a 22-year-old during a vehicle confrontation in Santa Monica in late March was arrested in Mexico nearly seven months later and returned to the United States to face murder and attempted murder charges, the Santa Monica Police Department announced this week. Manuel Reyes, 26, of Adelanto, was taken into custody on Oct. 20 in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the country's Pacific coast. The arrest followed a coordinated o...
OCEANO, Calif. - A large great white shark swam within feet of surfers off the San Luis Obispo County coast Wednesday morning, splashing one with its tail before turning and swimming away, according to drone footage and the surfer involved. The encounter occurred around 10:30 a.m. near Pier Avenue. Drone pilot David Steiner captured the moment as the shark, estimated at 12 to 15 feet long, approached a group of surfers. It passed near the board of Oceano resident Joel...
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Sick and dead sea lions have continued to appear on beaches in Half Moon Bay and surrounding San Mateo County waters throughout October, even as response calls declined elsewhere along the California coast. The area has remained a primary hotspot for strandings linked to a record-setting outbreak of domoic acid poisoning. The Marine Mammal Center, which operates a roughly 600-mile response range, reported more than 300 cases of domoic acid poisoning in...
Ian Choudri, CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority since 2024, resigned late Wednesday, citing personal and family priorities. His departure comes amid ongoing scrutiny of the long-delayed project. An inspector general investigation recently found nearly $600,000 in questionable consultant travel expenses, including first-class flights and trips to a nightclub, cigar lounge, and other locations. Earlier this month, the board stripped Choudri of sole authority over...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected to a fourth non-consecutive term on October 25, 2026, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil's presidential runoff. With nearly all votes counted, Lula received 51.79% of valid votes (approximately 64.26 million) to Bolsonaro's 48.21% (approximately 59.83 million), a margin of about 4.43 million votes, according to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The result marked a historic comeback. In the first round on O...
October 28, 2026 - A temporary localized ceasefire between Russian and Ukrainian forces took effect early Tuesday in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region, brokered through the direct efforts of U.S. First Lady Melania Trump. The pause began at 4:00 a.m. Moscow time (3:00 a.m. Kyiv time) on October 27-accelerated by two days from an earlier announced start date-to protect civilians and enable the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. In a post on...
How Come it Took the Left 8 Months to Expel George Santos, But it Took the Right 8 Years to Indict Ilhan Omar? Both lied about their names and origins. WASHINGTON - As federal investigators probe Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) immigration history and identity following a search of her Washington residence earlier this month, some observers and the former congressman George Santos have drawn parallels to Santos's own well-documented fabrications about his background. The cases...
The New York City Council voted on October 22, 2026, to ban horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park, approving legislation known as Romanch's Law that will end the industry by June 1, 2028. The measure passed 40-7, with two abstentions, and is supported by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is expected to sign it. The ban follows years of debate over animal welfare and public safety and gained momentum after a fatal accident earlier this year. Romanch's Law is named for 18-year-old...
SAN FRANCISCO - Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton announced Wednesday that he would abolish tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge and other fully paid-off bridges if elected, funding maintenance instead through the state budget. In a video posted to X from the bridge itself, Hilton said drivers currently pay over $10 to cross, "supposedly to cover its construction costs," but noted that the original $35 million in construction bonds were retired in 1971. "California...
Thousands of registered voters in California's Tulare County were accidentally mailed duplicate vote-by-mail ballots for the November 3, 2026, midterm elections after a private printing vendor reprinted and sent a batch of ballots by mistake, county officials said. The error affected 7,791 voters-about 3% of the county's roughly 227,000 registered voters-and was concentrated in the city of Tulare, where roughly 23% of the city's more than 34,500 registered voters received an...
SAN ANTONIO — Technical Sergeant Ian Patterson, a decorated 15-year U.S. Air Force veteran, died October 17, 2026, from injuries sustained when he fell during a military rappelling demonstration at the Alamodome ahead of a University of Texas at San Antonio football game against the U.S. Naval Academy. Patterson, a Tactical Air Control Party instructor assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, at Joint Base San Antonio, was one of four Air Force members s...
LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Monday charged 28 lawful permanent residents across California with election-related crimes, including fraudulent voter registration and making false statements on naturalization applications, in a coordinated operation officials dubbed "Protect the Vote." Eleven of the defendants were taken into custody that day, with the remainder expected to be arrested soon, according to the Department of Justice. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent...
Shani Nicole Louk, the 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist and influencer whose partially clothed body was filmed being paraded through Gaza on a pickup truck on October 7, 2023, has seen the Hamas cell responsible for abducting her remains fully accounted for by Israeli forces. Louk, born February 7, 2001, to an Israeli father and German mother, lived in Tel Aviv and was known for her art, dreadlocks, and love of music and dance. She was attending the Nova (Supernova)...
