Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Parking will be free at the downtown parking structures 1-6 from December 14 to December 25 in a strangely mixed message from the City of Santa Monica. A press release from Downtown Santa Monica (DTSM) Inc exhorts the public to come on down to the Third Street Promenade and shop. Meanwhile, the city's COVID webpage tells us to "stay home except to go to an essential job or to shop for essential needs." Apparently, shopping at local businesses and keeping them from going...
They got married when he was 60 and she was 28. They seemed to be the most enviable of LA May December romances. He was loaded, she was cunning and stunning, and together, their fame just multiplied. Now they're in divorce court, and he's facing involuntary bankruptcy, not to mention dementia. Thomas Girardi, the 81 year old legendary plaintiff's attorney, has fallen on very hard times. In a notable case against Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility company agreed to pay $460...
We received the following letter by Third Street Promenade property owner John Alle to City Manager Lane Dilg regarding unsafe and unsanitary conditions at the once-popular outdoor shopping area in downtown Santa Monica. Dear Lane, I have been arriving at my property on the Promenade for the last several days during early morning hours to supervise interior cleaning and maintenance. This last Friday and Saturday I walked the Promenade and surrounding streets. The pictures and...
Maurice Taylor cut off his 12 and 13 year old sons' heads at the family home in Lancaster. Then the Santa Monica physical trainer forced his 9 and 10 year old children to look at the bodies for five days. New LA County D.A. George Gascon's directive ended sentencing enhancements for infanticide. This means Taylor cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment. By decree, Gascon also ended the death penalty, cash bail, prosecution for prostitution, loitering, trespassing, and...
Lane Dilg has resigned as acting Santa Monica City Manager, she announced on the City's website Monday evening. Dilg had served as City Attorney for 3 years. She was promoted to acting City Manager after former City Manager Rick Cole resigned in April 2020. She will stay on until the Council completes a search for new talent in the Spring. Apparently, she or her husband got a better job in a different city. "Today, Interim City Manager Lane Dilg shared with the City Council...
Courthouse News Service: Judge OKs trial for LAPD captain humiliated by photo distribution A veteran Los Angeles police captain who says she was subjected to a hostile work environment after a nude photo of a woman was circulated in the workplace amid false claims that the image depicted the plaintiff, can take her case to trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John P. Doyle denied a motion by lawyers for the city to dismiss the case brought in January...
December 9, 2019, Los Angeles, CA – Amazon repeatedly makes its illusory public claim that counterfeits are not allowed on Amazon, but that is a lie. Amazon is a voracious seller, enabler, and facilitator of an inexhaustible supply of counterfeit, fraudulent, and replica products. 200,000 brands are fighting Amazon fakes, and now one manufacturer, exhausted from endless warnings and complaints, is taking the e-commerce gorilla to the mat. Maglula, Ltd., which makes popular mag...
An unidentified object hovering in space near the International Space Station was live-streamed on NASA TV on Tuesday. The object appeared to be some 10 meters in length and about 2 meters across, and perhaps 3 km from the ISS. It is in the shape of a silver monolith. Silver monoliths have been sighted in various places on Earth, since November when a silver monolith appeared in Utah's Red Rock Desert. As far as we know, this is the first one found in Earth orbit. Earth orbit...
Update: Thirty seconds before launch, a hold was called on the launch of a Sirius XM Satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida."The purpose of the countdown is for us to detect errors or problems," said Kate Tice, a spokeswoman for SpaceX. "If the team sees anything that looks just slightly off, the team will call off the launch. That is what happened today," Tice said. SpaceX Company of Torrance is now set to launch a broadcast satellite into orbit Saturday December 12, just...
Several staff members and other US Senate sources say that California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is 87 years of age, struggles to remember briefings just after they take place-and that her cognitive decline has been evident for several years. "They say her short-term memory has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have. They describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said and getting...
In Partnership with UCLA Dining, Venice Family Clinic will distribute meals on Tuesday 5/15 at its Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center in Santa Monica. The food distribution is intended to help its low-income patients struggling with food insecurity during the pandemic, says VFC in a press release. "With fewer students on campus to feed and more people facing food insecurity, UCLA has called on the skills of its dining staff to help serve the community by preparing nearly...
A male and female sheriff's deputies were driving through Altadena in a patrol vehicle, when one of two men walking by pointed a rifle at them and fired. The two then fled on foot and evaded arrest. The Sheriff's press release follows: *UPDATE*LASD Deputy Sheriff on Patrol Ambushed by Gunfire in Altadena Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Operation Safe Streets (O.S.S.) and Altadena Station are asking for your help identifying and locating the two atte...
There's an emergency lockdown in place and the meeting had to be held via Zoom. Nevertheless, Santa Monica did what it has done every two years for 150 years, and swore in a new City Council on Tuesday Night. New members Oscar de la Torre, Phil Brock and Christina Parra were sworn in by Santa Monica City Clerk Denise Anderson-Warren. Also sworn in were Kristin McCowan and Gleam Davis. After going a few rounds, the new Council voted in Sue Himmelrich as the two-year Mayor, and...
A 20 year old man in West Hollywood was arrested after pointing his green laser pointer at police, including patrol cars and a vehicle. The arrest was announced on Twitter, by the LAPD's Hollywood division. "Last night, Officers were on patrol on Santa Monica Blvd when they were struck in the eyes several times by a high-power green laser. Officers requested an air unit to help canvas for the suspect. Upon flying into the area, our air unit was immediately struck with the...
LA's new DA will not prosecute women for prostitution. Nor will he imprison people for trespassing, disturbing the peace, driving without a license, or loitering. These are laws which historically are used to discriminate against black and brown people in white areas, says Gascon. He came to office with a mandate to change all that. This is completely in keeping with what Candidate George Gascon said he would do if elected Los Angeles County District Attorney. "Elections have...
Sheila Kuehl is actually an alien. Not an alien from Mexico or any other country, but an alien from outer space. This was the news LA County Supervisor Kuehl delivered at a special press conference held today in order to explain her actions in dining outside at Il Forno Trattoria in Santa Monica hours after voting to ban outdoor dining for public health safety reasons. Although Kuehl realized and acknowledged that her admission may jeopardize the true identities of other...
Los Angeles, CA-Today, on his first day in office, newly elected District Attorney George Gascon announced several initiatives and priorities for his tenure as District Attorney. The LAPPL Board of Directors issued this statement in response: "As homicides, shooting victims, and shots fired into occupied homes soar in Los Angeles, it's disturbing that Gascon's first act in office is to explore every avenue possible to release from jail those responsible for this bloodshed....
UPDATE: ICU capacity did drop below the magical 15% over this weekend. The additional restrictions will kick in at midnight on Sunday, December 6. The fear-mongering statements predicted were made by Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health: "we are likely to bear witness to one of the worst healthcare crises our county has seen in our lifetime." See our article https://www.smobserved.com/story/2020/12/06/news/no-more-haircuts-entrance-scree...
Los Angeles County will bury 1547 unclaimed dead bodies in a mass grave. The event will be streamed online. The event will be held on December 3, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Since there is a three year lag between death and burial, none of these 1547 people, died of Covid-19. "With the cancellation of all large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Ceremony of the Unclaimed Dead will be live streamed," said the County in a press release. "The Department of Decedent...
3/1/20: Late Tuesday afternoon in Venice suspects shot a wife in front of her husband, sources on social media said. The shooting was said to be “gang related.” City News Service reports the shooting took place at 5:25 PM, and that the Los Angeles Police Dept. is searching for 4 or 5 men in connection with the shooting. "WItnesses say she was on the ground not moving.She was taken to the hospital. Husband is wailing and screaming and throwing up, all alone. He's crying tha...
Apparently the silver Monolith discovered in Utah's Red Rock desert is part of a family of monoliths, distributed throughout our Solar System by another civilization for some unknown purpose. Either that or it's moving around through our solar system, phasing into different locations at different times. The monolith (or monoliths), has previously been sighted by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Mars and one of its moons, Phobos. The Mars monolith is a rectangular object...
St Monica's Catholic Church couldn't provide its annual Thanksgiving dinner for those in need, due to the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic and the Los Angeles County Health shutdown. So instead, Wednesday on the grounds of St Monica's High School, guests in need were given a boxed Thanksgiving dinner, warm clothes and toiletries. Their temperatures were taken, hand sanitizers were supplied and guests were requested to stand 6' apart. The event took place on Wednesday afternoon...
Medical staff in the parking lot at the Calvary Baptist Church on 20th Street in Santa Monica, tested about 600 people for Coronavirus antibodies, during a free event from November 19-21. Guard-a-heart has previously provided this service to members of the community, at the Baldwin Crenshaw Mall. One reason to go to the church is its easy access. Also many doctors are hesitant to test patients, especially if they are asymptomatic as to Covid-19. First the woman takes your...
The Pier is open, Pacific Park is closed. And the Ferris wheel is displaying a turkey design for Thanksgiving. "Pacific Park will be "Talkin' Turkey" on it 90-feet tall Ferris wheel while featuring Fall leaves, colors, patterns and transitions for the Thanksgiving Holiday Week," writes Pier communications manager Cameron Andrews in a press release. He noted that the Pier is now open 24 hours. So while you cannot ride the ferris wheel, you certainly may want to look at it. The...
It's been almost two weeks since the City's Planning Department hosted their first webinar about the Housing Element Update - the plan to zone for an additional 8,874 residential units as ordered by the Southern California Association of Governments. Although the questions raised during the webinar have been posted online, none of the promised answers have been given. Every eight years, SCAG distributes among the 191 cities of the region the portion of expected new housing...
