Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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There are two perspectives on the current state of the pandemic in the U.S. One perspective is that it's time to accept some sickness and return to our lives. The New York Post recently printed an editorial entitled "Ignore the Hysteria: It's Time to Move Past Covid, America." The Post, a conservative newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1790, argues that with the vaccines, Covid is now like Influenza. Although the flu kills thousands of people every year, we do not...
August 3, 2021 - County health officials have lifted the warnings that had been up on several Southland beaches yesterday, caused by high bacteria levels measured in the water. Only the beach at Avalon on Catalina Island continues to remain posted with warnings against playing, surfing, and swimming in the water near their pier. Officials said they did not believe the July 11 raw sewage spill from the Hyperion Treatment Plant had caused the unhealthy bacteria levels in the...
The City of Santa Monica and the Coastal Commission are being sued by the Santa Monica Bayside Owners Association (SMBOA) regarding the approval of the demolition of Parking Structure #3 in downtown Santa Monica. According to the lawsuit filed on June 15, 2021, SMBOA is a non-profit organization composed of commercial property owners, business owners, and residents who are concerned about the current state of the downtown area of Santa Monica as well as its future viability....
July 28, 2021 - County health authorities are once again warning residents against going into the water at several Southland beaches, including from the Santa Monica Pier all the way up to Temescal. High bacteria levels measured in these areas are causing the advisory, but officials are reluctant to blame the pollution on the July 11 sewage spill from the Hyperion treatment plant, instead blaming the recent rainfall. Investigations are ongoing into the reasons for the...
West LA residents report that they have seen newly dead house cats killed by coyotes. Brazen coyotes have been seen in busy intersections such as Olympic and Sepulveda, which carry freeway levels of traffic. Residents report seeing corpses of cats across the fine trimmed lawns of West Los Angeles. "Coyotes are hunting in our neighborhood again and are a threat to pets and children!" warns a poster that has appeared in the neighborhood. Olympic is full of cars during the day, b...
At Tuesday night's City Council meeting, a caller informed the City Council that "agents of Satan" were "driving Christians from the Promenade." The City Clerk allowed the caller her two minutes to speak, then told her "your time is up." and then cut her off. You can't make this stuff up, people. The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian mall esplanade, shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica. According to Wikipedia, it originally...
July 27, 2021 The City Council will discuss tonight a resolution asking Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon to follow state law regarding bail and sentencing of criminal defendants. The resolution, put forward by Councilmember Phil Brock, does not go so far as to state no confidence in Gascon. But in some ways it goes further than the no-confidence votes of 24 other cities in the county. Brock's resolution digs into the specific directives Gascon has issued...
Santa Monica is on the verge of requiring its municipal workforce to get the COVID-19 vaccine, city officials said on Tuesday. City officials will be meeting with the labor organizations that represent the municipal workforce to discuss the impacts of a mandatory vaccination policy, civic leaders said. "Just as the City of Santa Monica is often a strong model in local government, we do all we can to safeguard the wellbeing of our Santa Monica community and dedicated City...
An 8.2 magnitude earthquakes struck the u.s. state of Alaska Wednesday night, around 15 minutes after midnight Pacific standard time. It was centered off the coast of Alaska, and tsunami warnings were issued for the US Pacific coast Hawaii and Guam. They were canceled at 1:15 AM Pacific standard time, as no waves materialized. The earthquake was said to be the biggest one anywhere in the United States since 1965. An 8.2 magnitude earthquake would be 10 times larger in terms of...
Hell has officially frozen over. Women line up to have sex with HIV positive men now living among our women's prison population as "trans-women." Women have stolen all of the condoms from the dispensers to play with as water balloons. A meth lab on the prison grounds would be no less destructive. Each of us is born with a destiny. It seems Senator Scott Weiner's destiny is to help spread HIV among the poor and the justice-impacted women in California. His intentions are to do...
At church this morning I spoke to Dr. Hans Oppenheimer, a rheumatologist. He is 75-ish and has been practicing for 40+ years. I often ask him medical questions, because he is well read, thoughtful and has the kind of directness that comes with age and experience. I asked him whether the recent order by the County of Los Angeles to mask indoors was justified. "No it isn't," he said. "First of all this is no longer an epidemic. The numbers (of infected people) are just not...
In a victory for Los Angeles and Culver City, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled that the FAA violated key environmental laws when it changed flight patterns for aircraft coming into Los Angeles International Airport over Westside communities, federal court officials announced this week. As a result of the decision by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the FAA must undertake a proper environmental analysis that should have taken place prior to implementing the...
After hearing a brief history of the long journey to demolish Parking Structure 3 in downtown Santa Monica, the city council voted 4-3 to demolish the structure and replace it with affordable housing. The demolition will not take place until December 31, 2021 at the earliest and will take an estimated six months to complete. No plan has been approved, or even submitted, regarding the proposed affordable and supportive housing that is to replace the structure of 337 parking...
I'm here on the yard at The California Institution For Women in Corona, California. I'm lucky to be in a unit NOT locked down and quarantined. Upon waking up this morning, I discovered nearly half of the prison is on lockdown and quarantined, pending outcome of Covid testing. Several staff members here at CIW have tested positive for Covid, even after shots. I'm told some of the positive staff members are indeed correctional officers but I have not yet confirmed that!! So,...
Santa Monica High School has announced another Covid case among its students attending one of its summer programs. The text of the email is below. While 60% of adults in Los Angeles County have been vaccinated and are not at risk for Covid-19, many younger people are not vaccinated. Opinions vary about how much risk teenagers have with respect to Coronavirus. Text of the email from SamoHi follows. Dear Samohi Summer School families, You're receiving this email because your...
A pilot program calling for the closure of a portion of Main Street during summer weekends will begin next weekend, July 24-25, city officials announced today. The "Sharing an Open Main Street" program – called by many area residents a "hare-brained scheme" that will negatively impact their neighborhoods – will continue on the weekends of August 21-22, September 18-19 and October 16-17, the city also said. During these "Open Main" weekends, two blocks between Hill and Kin...
7/15 (AP) Los Angeles County reinstated a mandate requiring residents to wear masks while indoors, regardless of vaccination status. This as LA county experienced an alarming increase in COVID-19 transmission. County health department chief Barbara Ferrer announced the new mandate on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 pm PST. LA county previously only recommended mask-wearing indoors. The new mandate will take effect at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. Many speculated that the indoor mask...
The Los Angeles County Health Department and the nonprofit environmental group, Heal the Bay, have slightly differing attitudes toward current water quality in the Santa Monica Bay after a sewage spill on July 11 from the Hyperion Water Treatment plant. Heal the Bay appears to agree with County Health that water quality at the earlier affected beaches, Dockweiler and El Segundo, have reached acceptable levels, but "we urge you to exercise caution by regularly checking the LA C...
A power outage caused the Hyperion Treatment Plant in El Segundo to release raw, untreated sewage into the ocean on Sunday night. Below is the press release from the LA County Health Department. LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) has issued a beach closure due to sewage discharge from the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant affecting all swim areas around the following areas: Beach # 110 – Dockweiler State Beach at Water Way Ext...
Bruce Thomson was a beloved track and cross country coach and teacher. After graduating from Hamilton High School in 1978, Bruce taught for over 20 years at San Pedro High School. He suddenly collapsed during a workout on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, and died of uncertain causes. Below is an obituary written by a friend of his, Richard Greifinger. RIP Bruce Kinloch Thomson , 2/2/60 - 7/6/21 There are times when us mere mortal people realize that there are powers greater than us, and...
Catalina Island, 26 miles off the California coast, is still struggling to attract visitors with yet another "reopening" announcement. The island shut down in March 2020 until mid-June of that year in an attempt to stop the spread there of Covid-19. But its June 2020 reopening to tourism was hampered by the public health guidelines set in place by Los Angeles County and the State of California. Out-of-county visitors were supposed to quarantine upon arrival, restaurants could...
The Los Angeles Times has posted an editorial criticizing Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, for his willingness to resign as Mayor of Los Angeles and accept the Biden Administration's nomination to be Ambassador to India. "Mayor Eric Garcetti's willingness to abandon his office in L.A. is a sign of the city's civic inadequacies," writes the editorial board in the Los Angeles Times website. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-07-09/eric-garcetti-ambassadorship-los-angeles...
Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles has sued the City of Santa Monica and its police chief over the ordered curfews that allegedly violated demonstrators' constitutional and civil rights during last year's protests over the killing of George Floyd, according to court papers. The lawsuit, filed late week in Los Angeles federal court, alleges that the citywide curfew order issued on May 31, 2020 was a "tactic used to stifle political protest against police violence" and it hindered...
7/6/21: A construction worker is on the mend after he was badly injured Tuesday afternoon at a site in the 11500 block of Wilshire Boulevard, authorities said. The man, whose name and age were not immediately released, was trapped when a large pipe fell on him. The incident occurred at about 3 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Emergency crews responded to the scene following reports of an adult male trapped underneath the pipe and they explored the safest...
Legislation to address the growing epidemic of hate crimes has just passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill, AB 1126, authored by Assembly member Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), would establish the first statewide commission in California to not only accurately monitor and track hate crimes and incidents, but to formally recommend policy to the Governor and State Legislature. Bloom previously sat on the Santa Monica City Council for 13 years, serving as mayor three...
