Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Sorted by date Results 2329 - 2353 of 3376
Santa Monica Malibu Unified SchoolDistrict Schools will once again be closed on Thursday, December 7, 2017. The following is the press release explaining the District's decision: Dear parents and guardians, All SMMUSD schools will be closed tomorrow, Dec. 7, 2017, in an abundance of caution and with the health and safety of our students and staff in mind. We are concerned about staff and families as this smoke, air quality and fire threat may turn very quickly throughout the...
Correction, 12/4/17: Laila from Untitled Number One School, says that the number of children proposed for the preschool is 20, not 50. "Most importantly, our Planning Commission approval is based on that maximum number of 20. The Statement of Official Action is linked to the Agenda for this Tuesday's City Council mtg. here:" http://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=1107 Sharing is caring, but not in my back yard when it comes to one neighborhood and a...
At its meeting last night, November 28, 2017, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously voted to approve a Homeless Strategic Goal Action Plan and a series of new investments included in the plan to address homelessness. Recommendations came as part of staff's Annual Homelessness Report to Council at a time when homelessness is up by 23 percent throughout Los Angeles County in 2017. "Homelessness is the biggest issue in front of us. People are suffering on our streets and...
Update:This just in from the SEIU: "The strike vote scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 30 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica has been called off due to a tentative agreement on a new contract reached by the parties. Employees will vote on the agreement next week and details will be released after that. " From St. John's: "Providence Saint John's Health Center and the SEIU-UHW reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday night for the hospital’s service and technical w...
2/29: Pacific Coast Highway was closed in both directions at Latigo Canyon Road Wednesday morning, after a police pursuit ended in a crash. The person who died was apparently another driver. Authorities pursed the car for a short time before deciding to back off because the driver was behaving so erratically, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Brad Johnson said. The stolen car then crashed near Latigo Canyon Road, in a wreck that involved at least three other...
A woman in Palm Desert, California claims to have purchased Chicken of the Sea White Albacore Tuna in water, containing glass shards. We have reached out to the company for comment. The unnamed consumer says she purchased a package of six cans at the local Costco in the Palm Springs area. Product code SASAD AS2GP17:09. UPC: 048000000989. The product is called: Chicken of the sea solid white albacore tuna in water Chicken of the Sea is a provider of packaged seafood, formerly...
Santa Monica College announced that it will officially open its newest campus-housing The Center for Media and Design (CMD) and the KCRW Media Center-on December 2, 2017. We have repeatedly pointed out that only 4% (yes that's right, FOUR PERCENT) of SMC students are Santa Monica High School graduates, and that about half the student body are foreigners, who pay top dollar to study abroad. So it's unclear to us exactly how this will benefit local residents. But saying that is...
An overwhelming sense of sadness overcame a neighbor this Thanksgiving morning when she could not find the strength to leave her home and celebrate Thanksgiving after hearing a kitten's distant cry over the last few days. At about 10 A.M. on Thursday, November 23, 2017, San Dimas Station Deputies Romero and Mora responded to a residence located in the 5000 block of Conlon Street, Covina, after receiving a call from a neighbor concerned about a kitten that was possibly being ab...
Mike Feinstein has informally announced through Facebook that he is running for California Secretary of State. Feinstein is considered a founding member of the Green Partylocally. Feinstein has been involved in political activism since 1988, after he attended a conference at the Findhorn community in Scotland entitled "The Individual and the Collective: Politics as If The Earth Mattered". He first became active with the Westside Greens in the Santa Monica/West Los Angeles...
California's Board of Education has approved ten textbooks that it has deemed "inclusive enough," and rejected two others that were not. Banned books included one by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the top textbooks producers in the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times, "The rejected textbooks failed to abide by California's 2011 FAIR Education Act. The law, written by former state Sen. Mark Leno, requires that schools teach about historical figures who were...
A young man crossing PCH at 5:30 am was hit and killed by a 70 year old male driver in a Honda Civic, the Santa Monica Observer has learned. The collision closed traffic in both directions on PCH. It forced enormous amounts of traffic into the area around the Santa Monica Civic Center, into the late morning on Tuesday. Santa Monica Police report that a collision in the 300 block of Pacific Coast Highway, has closed lanes of the important artery at 5:30 Tuesday morning....
Charlies Manson died tonight, in prison. He was most famous as the instigator of the Tate-Labianca murders, in which the Manson Family killed the pregnant wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. By doing so, Manson hoped to set fire to the U.S., start a race war, and somehow save the world. i.e. he was nuts. Charles Manson, 83, was an American criminal and former cult leader who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
In the afternoon of December 27th 2007 former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto gave a speech at a Pakistan Peoples Party rally held in Rawalpindi's Liaquat National Bagh. After delivering her speech she, Benazir, entered a bullet proof car and departed the area. Along her route there was a man on a mission. As the car with Benazir approached the location of that man Benazir opened the top hatch of the vehicle so she could stand up and wave to the assembled crowd. It...
In Showtime's Ray Donovan, seedy characters regularly bribe LA officials to get contracts and hide the truth. But that's just television. Or is it. Chances are good you've parked your car in those large parking lots in lower Westwood. You might have wondered who owns them. The answer is, you do, through the Federal government. A story of who manages VA parking lots in Westwood begs the question of how he landed such lucrative contracts in the first place. The answer from the...
Glenn Hirsch is on a 10,000 mile bicycle ride around the US, ending at the Santa Monica Pier. He rides to honor the memory of his nephew Ian Besner, who died of Leukemia in 2006, and to raise money to fight cancer. His wife, Lynn Hirsch, sent us the following e mail: My husband, Glenn Hirsch, is 67 years old and has been an avid cyclist as long as I can remember. He has been a family physician for forty years and has always lived a healthy lifestyle. In 2000, he took on a...
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department SWAT team dealt with an emergency situation this morning, by taking an armed suspect into custody. The quiet area of homes on Menlo St had to be barricaded, as military style officers and vehicles confronted the man. Ultimately, the situation was concluded peacefully....
2/11/17: As of today, Police still have release no information about a suspect in the shooting of a young woman from a party bus on Ocean Avenue, near the Santa Monica Pier. This almost certainly means authorities still don't know his identity, or even how many shooters were involved. De'Ommie De La Cruz was shot dead at 1 am Saturday as a result of a verbal dispute between passengers of two buses parked in the busy area across from the Pier. Witnesses said that or three men...
In the third serious collision involving an Expo Line train in Santa Monica this year, an Expo Line Train collided with a pedestrian near the 17th Street Station Sunday night. The man died before the police arrived. Here is the SMPD press release: On November 5, 2017 at about 11:00 p.m., the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded to a radio call for service regarding a traffic collision involving a Metro Expo Line Train and a pedestrian near the 17th Street Station. U...
Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Tuesday removed a former Colombian national army battalion commander accused of human rights violations. Retired Lt. Col. Oscar Gomez Cifuentes, 53, was implicated in five killings in Colombia that allegedly occurred while he was the commander of Infantry Battalion 43 Efrain Rojas Acevedo. These allegations relate to a disputed report stating that five persons...
File this one under Life in LA, #WeGoofed. An elderly homeless woman named Mildred Goldman aka Mildred Maxwell died at USC--LA County Hospital on October 9th, 2017. During the last 30 or so years, she succeeded in convincing people including her longtime boyfriend, that she was Marcie Blane, singer of the 1962 hit "Bobby's Girl." The truth is, Mildred Maxwell was someone else. (BTW, she also told people that her dead husband, Arthur Maxwell, had been the heir to the Maxwell Ho...
LA Firemen responded about 1:35 p.m. Monday, to a report of a natural gas leak in the area before the containers were found at 2013 S. Walgrove Ave., near Palms Boulevard, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. "When they arrived, they identified what they believed was a tampered gas meter, and there were some unidentified items near that meter," Det. Meghan Aguilar told reporters Monday night. It was not immediately clear whether the line had been tampered...
The gunman enters the college library wearing black fatigues. He left a suicide note, five dead people, and a lot of questions. An episode of Active Shooter: America Under Fire will feature the 2013 Santa Monica College Shooting. The episode will air on Showtime on Friday, November 3, 2017 at 9 pm. On June 7, 2013, a killing spree occurred in Santa Monica that left a total of five people dead, including the gunman, and injured five others. The incident started several miles...
It is an open secret that the City of Santa Monica will have to pay off its enormous debt to its overpaid and under-occupied staff, long past the lives of anyone now living. It apparently intends to pay off that debt, by issuing parking tickets to anyone using the cemetery on Halloween. Signs in the City of Santa Monica's only cemetery, Woodlawn Memorial Park, indicate that zombies will not be tolerated in the park unless they use public transportation. "Tow Away No Parking...
Update 2:President Donald Trump says that he will ask Congress to end the Diversity Visa Program, saying that Saipov should never have been allowed to use it to enter the United States. Update: Ridesharing companies Uber confirms that the suspect in this case was an Uber driver. " he passed our background check. Nevertheless, he has now been banned from the app," says an Uber spokesman Ann Coulter just tweeted: "Hey, I have an idea: How about a zero immigration quota for the A...
You've probably been to the large parking lot at the Vons Market in West Los Angeles on the corner of Barrington and Santa Monica Blvd. The building owners have noticed that their expansive, 1970's era parking lot has tripled in value in ten years. Like other property owners, they plan to take advantage of that increase in property value. The owners of the site have filed a proposal to replace it with a larger Whole Foods Market, and three stories of condominiums on the roof....
