Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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CNN settled with Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student who had sued the news outlet for defamation. A CNN spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the claims had been settled. CNN paid Sandmann and his lawyers $750,000, small money to the network, but enough to put the young man through college. Attorney's fees are not public, but are customarily around one third of the recovery in such cases. In any defamation action against a news organization, a defendant can argue that it...
Prince Harry and former actress Meghan Markle - The Duchess of Sussex, announced yesterday they are taking their own path, a road less travelled by a leading Royal since Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson, and look how that turned out! The news has left a country and the world's leading monarchy in shock. Or has it? Was this the long term goal? Will the outcome be the one the ‘Royal’ pair seek out? In their statement which read, 'After many months of reflection and internal dis...
The Trump administration made it clear this week how they were going to act on the president's executive order that included Jews as a protected group under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into UCLA for two separate complaints regarding anti-Semitism. When President Trump initially signed the executive order, there was outcry from some who deliberately misunderstood the president's updated interpretation of the 1964...
The short list of winners under California's gig economy law and the long list of exceptions to it act like a neon sign announcing who controls the power in this state. The winners are the government treasury, organized labor unions, and such a tiny number of workers that they are barely worth mentioning. The losers are everybody else, including employers (mostly of small businesses), consumers, and, most notably, the lion's share of workers currently operating as independent...
On Thursday January 2nd, 2020 at 2:09 p.m. Public Safety Communications received a 9-1-1 call reporting a fire in a home at 2634 6th Street in the Ocean Park community of Santa Monica. Santa Monica Firefighters arrived in approximately 7 minutes to find the 2-story home with fire showing from the windows of the first floor. Firefighters mounted an aggressive attack on the blaze while quickly searching the entire structure to ensure no occupants were trapped inside. A total of...
Hundreds of local residents took to the streets of Los Angeles and Santa Monica on Saturday Jan. 4, 2020, protesting the escalating threats from the Trump administration to attack 52 targets in Iran. The protestors see the US stumbling into another Middle Eastern war. "I ordered Soleimani killed not to start a war, but to prevent one," said US President Donald J Trump in a speech. In demonstrations held in Pershing Square, protestors held up signs that said "No War or...
The news stories happening in Santa Monica this year ranged from the highly unusual to the highly typical. Here's our take on the year that was. The Unusual The Ridgecrest Earthquake A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the Southland at 10:33 in the morning on Independence Day. This was followed by a larger, magnitude 7.1 quake the next day. Both quakes were centered in the small community of Ridgecrest, which was hard hit by the largest earthquakes to occur in the regio...
12 new laws going into effect today include AB5, the anti rideshare amendment. The bill attempts to create stricter rules around independent contractors. The intent is for Uber and Lyft drivers to pay their drivers as employees. The rideshare companies say their drivers are still independent contractors, and they intend to spend $100 million or so to put the issue before voters in November. Several other new statutes will make it more safe and complex to drive. AB 1810 remov...
A uniformed airport employee leapt from the third level of Tom Bradley international terminal, falling to his death three stories below. Police have described him as a 27-year-old male LAX employee. Paramedics attempted to revive the man after his jump but he was pronounced dead on scene. The incident which occurred around 8:15 p.m. Sunday night, on a day of peak travel at the nation's busiest airport, shocked passengers in the crowded terminal. The Tom Bradley International...
The Santa Monica Fire Dept. reports that it saved a 20 story hotel, the Huntley Hotel, from becoming fully engulfed in flames on Sunday afternoon. The fire started in the trash bins behind the hotel, and spread to the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors. The press release from SMFD PIO Captain Patrick Nulty reads as follows: On Sunday December 22nd, 2019 at approximately 12:13 a.m. Santa Monica Firefighters responded to the rear of 1111 2nd Street in the City of Santa Monica for a report...
The U.S. Supreme Court on December 16 declined to take up a case regarding homeless outdoor sleeping. The Court's rejection of the case lets stand a Ninth Circuit ruling that governments cannot make sleeping in public a crime. The initial case involved six homeless individuals claiming the City of Boise had violated their Eighth Amendment right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. Each of them had been cited and jailed under a pair of Boise statutes designed to curb...
In November, news broke that the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) had declared Santa Monica must build 9,118 housing units before 2029, 69 percent of which have to be affordable. This raised the previous demand from SCAG, which had been 4,800 units. Santa Monica's current population is 93,556. Immediate hand-wringing ensued, with the Santa Monica City Council considering various drastic rezoning schemes to enable the shoe-horning of such a large number of...
Investigators say electrical problem sparked blaze that engufed three propane-powered buses Saturday night, December 20th. The fire began in the "LAXit" lot at Los Angeles international airport. There were no injuries, and no one was especially near the buses at the time. The fire was visible throughout the crowded airport, and could be seen a mile away. Some speculated the propane tanks could've burned. The Los Angeles Airport Authority has emphasized the growth of LAX...
Santa Monica residents are circulating an online petition at Change.org, demanding that the City of Santa Monica perform annual assessments of its funding for social service agencies and programs. "City staff publicly admitted that they do not prepare annual assessments," the petition says. "This lack of transparency and accountability is unacceptable." Lacking a "realistic mechanism for annual assessments," Santa Monica "will continue to simply collect unverified,...
One thing is certain: Trump joins a small club including Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, as the most hated US Presidents ever while in office. "Trumps letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading facts," said CNN. "It accuses Nancy Pelosi of abusing her power, when it's Trump who abused his." "This is the most partisan impeachment ever," said FoxNews. "It is an impeachment designed to make Trump unelectable in 2020, rather than to...
The City of Santa Monica just announced a settlement with AIRBNB. AIRBNB is a website and smart phone App that permits tenants to sublease their homes as temporary vacation rentals. Demand for rentals and hotel rooms in Santa Monica is extremely strong. A rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica might rent for as little as $1500 a month. An AIRBNB rental for that same one bedroom, would net the tenant $120 a day, or $3600 over an entire month, netting the tenant $2000 or so....
The BCC, LAPD and Dept of Fish and Game and other agencies participated in the 2 pm Tuesday raid of a purportedly illegal marijuana clinic on Tuesday afternoon, December 10th. At least 20 officers were seen lining up the rather genteel looking staff from Grace on a Pico Blvd sidewalk, handcuffed as they chatted with each other about holiday plans. "Dude. It's like, totally legal to sell weed in California. But you got to get the permits first, dude. And pay the taxes,"...
Donate gently used or new clothing and shoes to the Flair Cleaners 17th Annual Flair Cares Holiday Clothing and Shoe Drive. Drop off items at Flair Cleaners in Santa Monica, 720 Montana Ave., (between 7th and Lincoln) through December 31, 2019. Home Pickup and Delivery customers can leave their clearly marked donations out for their driver. "It's time to put the clothes and shoes you never wear into the hands of those who need them most during the 17th Annual Flair Cares...
On October 19 incident on the Santa Monica Pier resulted in pepper spray assaults all around. Pro and anti-trump demonstrators confronted each other. Santa Monica police announced a second arrest in the case Wednesday. At some point during the confrontation, two subjects began to spray the crowd with pepper/bear spray indiscriminately. David Dempsey was detained and arrested at the scene. He has plead not guilty. Police today identified Joseph Krongchana, 34, as a second...
Although I spent my high school years in a suburb of Los Angeles, I've called San Francisco my home for the last 19 years. In 2001, I embarked on my career of public service, joining the California Attorney General's Office in the Criminal Division and becoming a San Francisco Assistant District Attorney in 2006. San Francisco has always been a challenging place to be a prosecutor. The judges and juries are quite liberal and the Public Defender's Office has had a long history...
In one of those moments that shortens the seven degrees of separation between Santa Monica residents and the power brokers in Washington, Samohi alumnus Dean Chien was chosen to ask Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a pointed question at the Town Hall in our nation's capital on December 5. Chien was president of Santa Monica High School's student body when he graduated in 2016. Now, as a senior at Johns Hopkins University, he's once again student body president and has been...
An 87 year old man reportedly suffered a violent blow to his head delivered by another male pedestrian. The assailant and victim were walking at the intersection of Lincoln and Wilshire on Saturday December 7th 11.15am. The family has appealed to local residents, seeking to find any witnesses, and any information possible to identify and capture the suspect. The victim is a retired doctor and a longtime Santa Monica resident. The victim is described as an 87 year old Asian...
Winter Storm in Santa Monica By Samuel Alioto 11/27: A storm from the Gulf of Alaska dropped rain on Southern California Wednesday. Snow in the mountains, and cold winds were expected through Thanksgiving making roads dangerous for travelers. In Santa Monica, homeless men gathered under awnings in Reed Park. On a normal day, they would be lying on sleeping bags and blankets throughout the Park at Wilshire and Lincoln. But the ground was far too wet for that. Many employed...
Ran Sikolsky and Jonathan Guttman were insulted and refused service due to their foreign ancestry at a Venice Starbucks, the two men allege in a complaint filed today at the Santa Monica courthouse. When Sikolsky and Guttman walked up to the Starbucks counter to order coffee and water, they were asked to pay 25 cents each for the water. They complied and ten minutes later they were given the coffee, but not the water. When they walked up to the Counter to ask for their water...
Update, 8:30 PM: Police apprehended one suspect and are searching for a second. "They're having a debrief with all the officers. One of the cops just told me they found the suspect hiding in a yard 5 houses away," posted one local resident. Los Angeles Police are investigating the robbery of a residence at 503 Avondale Apartments in Brentwood, Friday afternoon around 4:30 pm. The suspect is said by some to have fled the scene in a Toyota Corolla, then crashed into a structure...
