Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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3/11: The Santa Clarita division of the LA County Sheriff's Department reports that it has recovered 250 stolen catalytic converters, and arrested 19 suspects. The smog mediation devices, which scrub automobile exhaust, are frequently stolen by thieves who sell them to scrap dealers. The converters are said to be worth $250 to $750 each. The entire lot of 250 catalytic converters is estimated to be worth $750,000 or so. The 19 arrested people men also had $100,000 in cash on t...
Some people pronounce the discount retailer as Tar-jay, as if it were French. But it any case, the discount retailer is opening a second store in Santa Monica. A new Target store has opened in place of the Fred Segal store on 5th Street and Broadway, in Downtown Santa Monica. The Target City store will offer an abbreviated version of the chains retail offerings, such as pharmaceuticals and clothing. It will join a newly opened Target at 16thStreet and Wilshire Blvd. Another...
The Santa Monica City Council has approved a second permit-based Shared Mobility Pilot Program in the city. At its last meeting, the Council directed staff to issue a Request for Applications ("RFA") seeking up to four shared mobility operators to operate in Santa Monica from July 1, 2021, through March 30, 2023, as part of its commitment to being a multi-modal city. The Council also removed the prohibition of Class I and II electric bicycles on Santa Monica's portion of the...
UPDATE March 11, 2021 - The Los Angeles County Health Department announced the daily case rate has dropped to 5.2 cases per 100k people. They expect to be able to move to the red tier on March 17, almost exactly a year since lockdowns were first instituted. At this time, grades 7-12 will be allowed to return to school, assuming the schools follow the appropriate safety protocols and procedures. Of course, the teachers' unions will have to sign on. March 9, 2021 The Los...
Santa Monica grocery and drug store workers will receive a temporary $5 hourly pay increase for 120 days as the City Council approved on Tuesday night a "hero pay" ordinance for essential workers in the city. The ordinance, modeled after the recently-passed Los Angeles County measure, mandates the pay raise for publicly-traded grocery store or retail drug companies and retail companies that have at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 10 employees per store site. The...
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health anticipates qualifying for the State's Blueprint for a Safer Economy less restrictive red tier that allows for additional re-openings between Monday, March 15 at 12:01am and Wednesday, March 17. The exact date depends on when 2 million doses have been administered to people in the most under-resourced communities across the state. The County is principally aligned with the state's reopening framework for the red tier, with...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that a man has been charged with pocketing tens of thousands of dollars while he worked as a principal at two schools over the past four years. "Betraying students, their parents and school administrators is the ultimate failure for those who are the face and voice of a school," District Attorney Gascón said. Kyle Douglas (dob 6/6/70) was charged in case BA493366 with one count each of misappropriation of p...
A winter storm rolled through So Cal early Wednesday morning and into Thursday night. The storm brought a rare burst of hail in Santa Monica. According to some social media reports, it was the first hail that fell in SM since 2015. Some mountain areas received over a foot of snow, while on-and-off rain fell in low-lying areas throughout the rest of the region. Several pockets of the Southland saw heavy rainfall and lightning strikes Wednesday morning, including Glendale and...
March 9, 2021 - The California Department of Corrections, which runs the state's prisons quietly began offering Covid-19 vaccines to the staff and also incarerated individuals at the state's prisons on December 22, 2020. Vaccinations for frontline workers, the first given in the state, only began shortly before this date. Individuals over 65 years old were not eligible to sign up to get the vaccine until mid-January. As of March 7, there have been 42,397 inmates who have...
Courts & Rulings Judge rules victims lack standing to seek recusal of District Attorney's office Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christopher Smith has rebuffed the plea by family members of two slain females, who were half-sisters, to recuse the Office of Los Angeles County District Attorney in pending Juvenile Court proceedings against the alleged killer, now an adult, ruling that they lack standing to seek such relief. Metropolitan News-Enterprise Mandatory bar fees could...
A protest of the Tigray War took place at the Federal Building in Westwood Saturday. The conflict over a semitic ethnic minority in Eritrea, has led to accusations of war crimes against both sides. The Tigray War is an ongoing armed conflict that began around midnight of 3–4 November 2020 in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is between the Tigray Regional Government, led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) aided b...
They pay for every dance, selling each romance.....A male escort who has clients across the United States was sentenced to 21 months in prison yesterday by a federal judge in Florida. His crime was not prostitution related. It was for filing a false corporate tax return in 2018, said officials from the Justice Department's Tax Division. Jami Kopacz, of Fort Lauderdale, was also ordered by District Court Judge Roy K. Altman to pay $278,325 in back taxes to the IRS on the...
The City of Santa Monica has joined forced with local businesses to provide new online resources to local residents looking for employment and to assist with the local economic recovery. The city's website has added a "new job listing" and employment resource page, which will be updated bi-weekly, to highlight local job opportunities and to encourage employers to hire local residents, city officials. "The City of Santa Monica is committed to supporting a strong and...
Unlike a new toy or a new car, a new warden is NOT at all a good thing. Each warden seems to be worse than the one who came before them. Most have something to prove and want to reinvent the wheel when the program is running smoothly, daily. Zero covid cases. We just went down to level 2. Yet, as soon as we went to level 2, the warden began searches. The new warden is a female. She was over at a men's facility before coming here. Since she got here, she has done something...
Santa Monica and other wealthy communities in the Westside have some of the highest Covid-19 inoculation rates in Los Angeles County even though their residents were less affected by the coronavirus, according to new data released by the Public Health Department this week. On the other hand, lower-income communities in the Eastside, which were devastated by the pandemic, have seen fewer vaccines for their residents, health officials said. More than 21% of the residents of Sant...
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District reached an agreement with the teachers' union to 'reopen' the elementary schools with a target date of March 15. Reopening does not mean a full-on return to in-person instruction, however. Each site will have its own plan. According to Gail Pinsker, district spokesman, "schools are starting with one or two days a week" for the two weeks preceding Spring Break, which begins March 29. She said she was "unable to confirm" how much time...
While the police were investigating a robbery near the Metro Train station, a 32 year old homeless dude jumped on top of a detectives unmarked police vehicle, poured gas on it, and set it on fire. Not the wisest career move, maybe. This happened last Thursday and was not connected to the George Floyd rioting last Summer. The police press release from Lt. Rudy Flores follows. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed charges on George Joosten, a 32-year-old wh...
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has substantial efforts underway in preparation for spring break travelers, who typically travel late February through April. Those efforts include technology upgrades across airport checkpoints that reduce or eliminate physical contact, recruitment efforts to prepare for possible increasing passenger volumes, and vaccination efforts for our officers and personnel who regularly engage directly with members of the p...
The Los Angeles Zoo is deeply saddened to announce the death of 12-year-old female Masai giraffe, Hasina, and her full-term stillborn calf. Based on the abnormal breech position of the giraffe calf, a natural delivery was not considered possible, and the Animal Health team made the decision to proceed with an anesthetized exam to remove the calf manually. The calf was successfully removed, and Hasina recovered from anesthesia and was doing well, but unfortunately, she passed...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan announced Vote Centers are open and available for voting for the March 2 Special Elections, including the Senate District 30 Special Primary Election. The election is limited to the City of Los Angeles and to this particular senate seat, which opened up when 30th District State Senator Holly Mitchell won a seat on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors last year. Seven candidates are running....
The family of a man who died from Covid-19 in a Santa Monica hospital has filed a police report stating his personal belongings were stolen from his intensive care room. "Instead of writing the eulogy, I was canceling credit cards," said Lila Yomtoob, daughter of 84-year-old Abraham Yomtoob, who passed away on Jan. 15 at Providence St. Johns in Santa Monica. Abraham Yomtoob spent the final weeks of his life with pain and isolation in the ICU, his daughter Lila told the local...
If you want your kids back in school, send them to prison! Last week, female and transgender male state prisoners here @ C.I.W. went back school to receive in-person educational instruction! No, California Teachers Union stopping prisoners from getting our much needed learning!! So, if this can happen here, maybe Gavin Newsom should ask the CDCR how to open the schools? This phase 2 is allowing many things to open up inside here. Vocational training also! You see, the State...
When Lady Gaga’s dog walker Ryan Fisher was shot by a couple in a white Nissan, he may not have known that the purpose of the assault was to steal her dogs. Fisher is expected to make a complete recovery. Lady Gaga meanwhile has offered $500,000 for the return of her two French bulldogs, no questions asked. Fisher was walking three dogs owned by Lady Gaga, when he was shot four times in the chest before two men stole two of the singer's French bulldogs. Two suspects fled t...
Santa Monica Police say that they are investigating a series of thefts where the suspects are targeting elderly residents. The thefts are of jewelry from people's arms or fingers. Police warned the elderly not to approach strange vehicles, and to be aware of suspicious persons when they are out on a walk "In each of the reported incidents in Santa Monica, a female suspect calls out to the victim from a parked car asking for directions or assistance in an effort to get the...
Reportedly a man jumped off the top of parking structure two Saturday afternoon around 4 PM. Santa Monica police and fire responded to the scene and cleaned up the site. Like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Santa Monica's downtown parking structures have unfortunately become frequent venues for suicidal people. There have been a spate of recent suicides from the parking structures in downtown Santa Monica in the last few years, with about ten reported in 2020. The...
