Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The Santa Monica Fire Dept rescued an apparently homeless man from the cliffs above PCH on Wednesday. It's unclear if the man was living on the bluffs, as scores of homeless people apparently do. On Wednesday, February 12, 2020, at 3:39 p.m., the Santa Monica Fire Department responded to a report of an adult male who had fallen partially down the bluff above the 1200 block of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). The male subject suffered only minor injuries however, he was not abl...
On Friday February 7, 2020 the Wow! Creation's honored the Oscar Nominees, directors, producers, film makers and media at the W Hotel Hollywood, 6250 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood with a dazzling gifting suite for all attendees At the Wow! Creations gifting lounge invited exclusive people in the entertainment/film industry have the chance to mingle and chat while enjoying the flash and glitter of the Oscar season, and take home beautiful gifts offered by vendors from across the...
Don't mess with a student driver. Wilshire Blvd was closed to Westbound traffic for about 3 hours Saturday afternoon, Feb. 8th, after two men were in a car accident that caused one vehicle to flip over. The vehicle that did not flip has "Primo Student Driver" painted on its side. The driver suffered neck and back injuries, and was brought to Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, directly across the street from the accident site. Yes, SMFD Paramedics loaded the injured man into an...
Actor Orson Bean was struck and killed on Venice Blvd Friday night, February 7, 2020. Near where Venice Blvd crosses Shell Avenue, Bean was struck by two drivers, with the second vehicle striking him fatally. "The car coming westbound did not see him and clipped him and he went down," said Los Angeles Police Department Captain Brian Wendling. "A second vehicle was coming up, was distracted by people trying to slow him down and then looked up and then a second traffic...
Each of the campaigns in the Iowa state primary, or caucus, declared victory, as the phone applications intended to record results utterly failed. The Iowa Democratic Party said that they were not hacked and that they would ultimately count paper ballots. But the Super Bowl of elections, the Iowa caucuses, we're not available to the public into the campaigns and there was finger-pointing to go all around. The Iowa Democratic Party said that there were inconsistencies in the...
A woman reportedly jumped off Parking Structure Two Sunday morning. Her suicide attempt was successful, onlookers said. Santa Monica police responded to the suicide itself, but have not yet confirmed the woman's death. 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 2019. The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has long been a magnet for suicides, but was able to reduce the...
A five alarm fire broke out Wednesday at 11740 Wilshire Blvd damaged ten apartments, drawing 350 firemen and leaving tenants without access to the building. Thirteen people were injured, including two firefighters and two civilians in critical condition. 150 residents had to seek alternative accommodations. The 25-story apartment building was also the scene of a major fire in 2013. The fire began on the sixth floor at the Barrington Plaza complex around 8:37 a.m., according to...
A source who has been attending NTSB briefings for relatives of the Sunday, January 26, 2020 crash that took the lives of nine people, including basketball star Kobe Bryant, says that to a limited extent, the crash can be blamed on Kobe himself. This according to reports appearing in the LA Times. The source, who asked not to be named, says that air traffic voice recordings substantiate that Ara Zobayan, the pilot of the doomed helicopter was concerned about heavy fog over...
It's an election year, and two very rich men both bought ads. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign features two ads during the game, according to CNET parent company CBS News. One, in which he brags wage growth and low unemployment, has been released in advance. The Super Bowl has frequently been the most-watched American television broadcast of the year; the seven most-watched broadcasts in American television history are Super Bowls. In 2015, Super Bowl XLIX became...
A homeless man was struck and killed by an Expo line train in Santa Monica on Sunday. He may have been drinking at the time. Both the Santa Monica Fire Dept and Police Department, issued press releases describing the accident--unusual for both SMFD and SMPD to do. The SMFD release included photos, which are posted with this article. The SMFD press release by Fire Capt. Eric Himler, PIO reads as follows: On Sunday January 26, 2020, at 6:09 a.m., the Santa Monica Fire...
No one is sure when he arrived or where he is from. But the middle aged homeless man in Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, talks almost incessantly to an imaginary person. Early one morning last week, he punctuated his talk to an imaginary presence by raising his voice. "I'm a doctor? I'm a doctor! ha haha," he exclaimed over and over again, laughing at his own not so private joke. Nearby is a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf outlet, selling $5 cups of coffee and $10 sandwiches...
The Staples on Wilshire Blvd will be replaced by a Target store, according to a liquor license application sign currently displayed in the front window of Staples. There is also a Target store that recently opened on 11840 Santa Monica Blvd., in West LA. It specializes in clothing. Target Corporation is the eighth-largest retailer in the United States, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. Regular Target stores average 135,000 to 200,000 square feet in size. TargetExpress...
City Press Release On January 22, the City of Santa Monica will conduct its annual street-by-street count of people experiencing homeless. Santa Monica joins the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and communities across the county in the late-night count. Santa Monica's count is made possible with the support of 300 volunteers. This annual count is a vital tool in establishing annual homeless priorities. Each year, the City of Santa Monica looks at these numbers as an ind...
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...
Slightly south of Wilshire Blvd on the Third Street Promenade sits a big silver van, with Story Corps scrawled in flowing red letters. A red metal desk sits near by. When I arrived yesterday Mia Raquel asked if she could help me. A graduate of Oberlin College, she did radio there for 4 years and joined Story Corp in 2003. Her responsibilities include taking care of the audio equipment in the van and making notes about the interviews for the archives. The van travels to 10...
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...
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...
