Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced in September that Amazon would construct a second headquarters in North America, the smart money was on Atlanta. The South's biggest City has land, a large and largely underemployed workforce, transportation infrastructure and an accommodating local government. Since Amazon's HQ is in Seattle, it made sense that the company would pick the East coast, or even Toronto Canada for HQ2. But in January, Amazon moved into the Sony Pictures studio...
Update, 3 pm: After investigating multiple reports of a methane or other oder in the 500 block of Venice Blvd, the Los Angeles Fire Department and the Southern California Gas Company, determined the source of the leak to be natural. The investigation began at 10 am approximately, when mutliple reports of people smelling gas came in. But it was determined to be natural, perhaps methane from the Pacific Ocean. At 3 pm the investigation concluded. This from the City of Santa...
Santa Monicans for City Council Term Limits has begun actively circulating a petition to put a charter amendment before voters that would limit city councilmembers to three 4 year terms. "Since this is a charter amendment, we need 15% of the voters in Santa Monica to sign the petition. That's a very high bar, and it's a short deadline," says Nancy Coleman. She added that her petition had been well received by voters she met in front of the Post Office on the 1200 block of...
California Attorney General's office today announced that defendant Carl Ferrer, Chief Executive Officer of online sex advertising website Backpage.com, has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy and three counts of money laundering. The defendant entered the guilty plea in Sacramento County Superior Court, resolving charges against him in the criminal case People of the State of California v. Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey, and James Larkin. This plea follows the permanent...
The Lincoln Middle School field, which has been undergoing restoration for most of 2 years, will open soon. "We are close to opening Lincoln MS field," says SMMUSD Spokeswoman Gail Pinsker. "We are likely just a few weeks away." The Lincoln Lions will soon move from an old dirt track to a new six-lane synthetic track. They will migrate from the old grass and dirt field to a new synthetic football, soccer and lacrosse turf field. The project includes upgraded and enlarged...
The City Clerk confirms that former City Councilmember Bob Holbrook is undergoing chemo therapy. The City Council's office would not state anything else definitive about Holbrook's health, except that he has been undergoing treatment for about a year. Holbrook served on the Council on and off over a 35 year period, ending in 2014. In February, the Council allocated $20,000 to establish a scholarship fund "for a Santa Monica student interested in pursuing an education in civic...
LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Wolfgang Puck, Architect Frank Gehry, and some rich dude behind an LLC called "PH Beach," will soon replace the Gladstone's for Fish restaurant on the beach, with a much, much more expensive place. "Today the LA County Supervisors cleared the way for negotiations to begin on a concept design for a new beachfront dining destination to be designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry and operated by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck at the current...
Work Well Win, a company founded by Frank Bistrian, has announced that they will convert the former bookstore at 1201 Third Street Promenade, into co-working space. Some people (of a certain age) refer to this arrangement as a "Fegen Suite," others call it an executive suite. The 30,000 square foot space will be available for subleasing tenants in the Fall of 2018 "Work well win is unlike existing co-working solutions: its designed from the ground up with wellness...
An earthquake measured at a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale, struck in the seas off Santa Cruz Island on Thursday afternoon just after 12:30 Office workers in downtown Los Angeles and Long Beach felt a shaking movement, some said it lasted 20 seconds. On Santa Cruz Island, a live webcam captured a bald eagle's jolted reaction at the epicenter. The temblor occurred just before 12:30 p.m. and was centered south of Santa Cruz Island" said the LA Times. "It was...
A couple of whales were spotted in the shallow waters off Seal Beach Monday morning. The whales, which drew some crowds, were first spotted around 11 am, KABC7 reported. It is unclear why the whales stayed in the shallow water between a sandbar and the beach. Wildlife officials were on route to monitor the animals and make sure they were unharmed, according to multiple media outlets. Live video FOX11 LA posted on Facebook showed the two whales thrashing and swimming in...
When you're elected to City Council, it's lifetime position. Herb Katz, Christine Reed, Ken Genser and had to be carried out practically. They all died on the Council. The latter 2 had parks named after them by their similarly long serving survivors. Santa Monicans for City Council Term Limits has begun raising money to put term limits on the ballot. The measure would restrict city leaders to no more than 3 four year terms. With the exception of Ted Winterer, the entire 7...
A capacity crowd filed into Catholic Church Easter Sunday morning on April 1, 2018. People dressed in their Sunday best (mostly), had to be re-directed to the gymnasium and community center which held satellite services. Six or so people greeted the faithful in front of the 100 year old cathedral with free coffee. Monsignor Torgerson himself shook hands at the Church entrance for the most important holy day in Christendom. Around the block, a smaller crowd filed into St....
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in stable condition after undergoing open-heart surgery, according to multiple media reports. During Thursday's surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center doctors replaced a valve in his heart, the LA Times reported citing his spokesman. The pulmonic valve, which was originally installed in 1997 due to a congenital heart defect, had to be replaced due to its age, TMZ reported. During the scheduled procedure, which was supposed to...
A Florida jury found wife of the Pulse Nightclub shooter not guilty of obstruction of justice and helping her husband carrying out the massacre, according to multiple media reports. Noor Salman, 31, would have faced up to live in prison the Orlando Sentinel reported. It took the jury 12 hours of deliberations before handing up the verdict. "I respect the criminal justice process, and we all to trust that the jury made their decision free of bias and emotion," said Pulse owner...
Police in San Francisco investigate after a driver apparently intentionally hit five people Wednesday morning following an altercation. A witness told local TV station KGO-TV the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash swung an ax at a group of people before hitting them and driving off. Four victims were hospitalized following the incident. The crash happened a block off Third street. San Francisco police say the driver had a physical altercation with five people and then...
A Federal California Judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a motion by Stromy Daniels to depose President Donald Trump under oath as part of an ongoing legal battle over a $130,000 payout from Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen to the adult actress before the 2016 election. Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, promised to fight back: "We will refile the motion," he posted on Twitter. Judge S. James Otero of the US District Court for the Central District of California called the motion for...
Police arrested a woman early Thursday morning on suspicion of DUI after three people died and another was hospitalized in a fiery crash in Huntington Beach. Bani Duarte of San Clemente was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, according to Huntington Beach Police arrest log. The two-car accident happened just after 1 a.m. at Pacific Coast Highway and Magnolia Street, KABC7 reported. A...
Despite predictions, it was not sexually transmitted diseases that ultimately brought down Craigslist, the king of anonymous meetings. It was Congress that finally ended it. Blaming new legislation, the uncrowned king of free, anonymous personals has taken the ads down. Thousands of couples of every gender have met online though the ads, but they have apparently come and gone. In place of the women seeking men, men seeking men, men seeking women and women seeking women ads,...
The remains officials found in a shallow grave in Northern California have been positively identified as belonging to missing Hollywood actress Adea Shabani, the Nevada County Sheriff's office said in a statement on Wednesday. The 25-year-old actress was identified through tattoos during an autopsy, said Lt. Rob Bringolf with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office in the statement. Officials are investigating the case as a homicide, but would not give any details about the exact...
A source in the white house confirmed today that John Bolton would be NSA Director....
Officials will not file charges against two Baton Rouge police officers in the 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling after an investigation found the officers acted in a "reasonable and justifiable manner," Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Tuesday. Baton Rouge City Police Officers Howie Lake and Blane Salamoni had "good reason to believe that Mr. Sterling was armed with a firearm," Landry said in a statement. Sterling, who was shot multiple times after a struggling...
An Alaska Airlines pilot is suing the company under Washington state's anti-discrimination law, claiming its response was inadequate after she says she was drugged and raped by a fellow pilot during Minneapolis stopover last June. The Seattle Times reports Betty Pina filed the lawsuit on Wednesday at the King County Superior Court. Pina alleges that she was serving as a co-pilot and blacked out after the captain gave her wine at a hotel lounge. She says she later woke up...
At least one witness has attributed the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Miami, to a snapped cable. Speaking on Fox TV, eyewitness Jose Mejia says that he saw a blue cable holding equipment in a blue box, snap. It fell onto the pedestrian bridge, causing the bridge to collapse. The bridge fell on at least 5 vehicles. It was intended to connect 2 sides of Miami's Florida International University. A local congressman confirms that a stress test was underway at the time of the...
Crowds were out in force on a sunny Santa Monica Sunday as people in the banana suits wheelchairs and some serious runners finish the Los Angeles Marathon. Under the watchful eyes of Santa Monica police, 10,000 runners in about five times as many spectators lined the streets of Santa Monica to watch the 26 mile race....
Those of us who've live in Santa Monica for a while have seen new police chiefs come and go, about every 5 years in fact. That way they take home around $2 million or so, and max out their pension benefits. Undeniably, Chief of police in this town a tough job, made tougher by the massive prison release that resulted from Democratic dominance of California politics, and prop 57. Some local residents have dubbed the Expo Line "The Crime Train" on social media. I've noticed that...
