Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Holiday cheer turning hostile in restaurants Every year, millions of Americans head into stores and restaurants expecting warmth, efficiency, and holiday magic. But behind the counters, another reality is unfolding—one marked by rising stress, intensifying customer aggression, and a workforce pushed beyond its limits. CaterCow reports that 2025 holiday season is shaping up to be one of the most stressful in recent memory for retail and restaurant staff. Customer behavior is de...
Sweida, Syria - December 23, 2025: In the wake of Bashar al-Assad's ouster one year ago, Syria's Druze minority in the southern province of Sweida has faced escalating threats from sectarian clashes and pressures from the new Damascus government led by transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Israel has emerged as a key protector, providing military aid, humanitarian assistance, and airstrikes to shield the community, according to...
Pacific Grove, California - December 29, 2025--The body of 55-year-old Erica Fox, a dedicated triathlete and co-founder of the popular open-water swimming group Kelp Krawlers, was recovered over the weekend, bringing a tragic close to a week-long search following a suspected shark attack in Monterey Bay.Fox disappeared on Sunday, December 21, while swimming with about 17 fellow Kelp Krawlers members off Lovers Point in Pacific Grove, a scenic spot known for its rocky coves and...
Los Angeles, CA - December 28, 2025--The video game community is grieving the sudden death of Vince Zampella, the influential developer and co-creator of the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise, who died at age 55 in a single-vehicle crash on December 21. According to the California Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 12:45 p.m. on the Angeles Crest Highway in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles. Zampella was driving a 2026 Ferrari 296 GTS southbound when...
Castaic, California - December 27, 2025A major natural gas pipeline ruptured Saturday afternoon in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, forcing the closure of all lanes on Interstate 5 in both directions and triggering a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents. The incident occurred around 4:20 p.m. near Ridge Route Road and Pine Crest Place, just east of the southbound lanes of the I-5 freeway. Los Angeles County Fire Department officials reported that the rupture involved a...
December 27, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS - While the mainstream media completely ignores the story, a 23-year-old independent journalist and YouTuber, Nick Shirley, has ignited a firestorm on social media with a 43-minute investigative video claiming to uncover over $110 million in taxpayer-funded fraud tied to Somali-run childcare, adult daycare, and healthcare facilities in Minnesota. The video, titled "I Investigated Minnesota's Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal," was posted on YouTube...
Minneapolis, MN - December 26, 2025A 42-minute video released today by independent journalist Nick Shirley has gone viral, documenting on-the-ground visits to several Minneapolis-area child care centers that appear deserted despite being licensed for dozens-or even hundreds-of children and receiving millions in state funding. The investigation focuses on facilities participating in Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides subsidies to low-income...
December 25, 2025: Two years after the devastating October 7, 2023, attack that killed around 1,200 Israelis and took 251 hostages, sparking a war that has claimed over 66,000 Palestinian lives and reduced much of Gaza to rubble, Hamas leaders continue to frame the conflict as a strategic triumph.bbc.com Key Hamas leaders, including the late Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, orchestrated the October 7 operation known as "Al-Aqsa Flood." The architects of the...
Riverside, California - December 24, 2025 Tylor Chase, the former Nickelodeon child actor best known for portraying the quirky Martin Qwerly on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide from 2004 to 2007, has been provided temporary housing just days before Christmas, offering a glimmer of hope amid his well-documented battles with homelessness, mental health, and substance use. On December 23, Chase's former co-star Daniel Curtis Lee - who played Simon "Cookie" Nelson-Cook on...
San Diego, California - December 22, 2025--A federal judge in the Southern District of California issued a ruling today declaring that state-guided school policies requiring educators to withhold information about a student's gender identity changes from parents violate constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez, in the case Mirabelli v. Olson, held that such "parental exclusion" policies infringe on parents' Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process...
San Francisco, CA - December 20, 2025A widespread power outage affected approximately 130,000 Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers in San Francisco on Saturday, impacting roughly 30% of the city. The blackout, which began with smaller interruptions in the morning and escalated in the afternoon, was linked to a fire at a PG&E substation located at 8th and Mission Streets in the South of Market neighborhood.The San Francisco Fire Department responded to reports of the...
As California heads into 2026, the state's gasoline market faces significant disruption from the closures of two major refineries: Phillips 66's Los Angeles-area facility, which ceased operations in the fourth quarter of 2025, and Valero's Benicia refinery, scheduled to shut down by April 2026. Together, these closures eliminate roughly 17-20% of California's in-state refining capacity, raising concerns about supply shortages, increased reliance on imports, and higher prices...
Boston, MA - December 17, 2025 - Federal authorities have charged two men with operating a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving the trafficking of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits through small retail stores in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood. Antonio Bonheur, 74, of Mattapan, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Haiti, and Saul Alisme, 21, of Hyde Park, a lawful permanent resident also from Haiti, were each charged with one count of food...
Los Angeles - December 19, 2025--Los Angeles Police Department officers pursued a suspect driving a stolen box truck through the West Los Angeles area, including Santa Monica, on Thursday afternoon. The pursuit began around 11:30 a.m. near the 2500 block of Stoner Avenue after reports that the suspect jumped into the box truck while an employee was unloading appliances, according to authorities. LAPD units and aerial support from SkyFOX tracked the vehicle as it traveled throu...
Washington, D.C. — December 18, 2025. The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would make it a federal crime to provide gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries, to individuals under the age of 18.H.R. 3492. Titled the "Protect Children’s Innocence Act" and sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), amends existing federal law on female genital mutilation to classify certain gender-affirming pro...
Retail supply chains brace for a redefined 2026 as tariffs, technology gaps, and nearshoring upend old models A new survey of 250 retail supply chain leaders reveals a sector undergoing one of the fastest strategic shifts in decades. Between rising tariffs, geopolitical pressures, and surging consumer expectations, organizations are being forced to rebuild their logistics networks for resilience rather than speed. The study, commissioned by WSI | Kase and conducted by...
Private aviation market hits $26.6B as shared ownership models disrupt luxury travel The private jet market, valued at $26.6 billion in 2024, is projected to grow to nearly $50.8 billion by 2034. Suddenly, private aviation is less “secret society of the absurdly rich” and more a service for executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone allergic to airport chaos. This is possible due to shared ownership models, particularly fractional ownership. In this article, Fractional Jet Own...
Gifting in estate planning: 7 mistakes that could cost you Estate planning isn’t a one-time event — it’s a moving target. With gift and estate tax laws in flux and even “permanent” reforms often lasting no more than a decade or an administration, families are rethinking their approach. One powerful strategy? Lifetime gifting. But without careful planning, missteps can not only undermine your intentions but also expose your estate to greater tax liability. Comerica shares se...
Providence, RI / Boston, MA - December 18, 2025. The six-day manhunt for the gunman responsible for a deadly mass shooting at Brown University and the subsequent murder of an MIT professor ended Thursday night when authorities discovered the suspect dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire. Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national and former Brown University graduate student. Valente died...
The young man drove his two door BMW over 100 miles per hour on Santa Monica Blvd at 11:30 pm Thursday night, December 11, 2025 struck a light pole after losing control of his vehicle, then proceeded to crash into a 1970's era brick building on the corner, essentially demolishing the building. We spoke to the building manager examining the building teh next morning. He said that a BMW travelling at high speed hit a lightpole, then demolished the building. He added that the...
How can I avoid capital gains tax without a 1031 exchange? Understanding capital gains taxes from a property sale and the legal strategies you can pursue to manage tax liabilities from selling an asset can help you preserve the wealth you’ve built in your property. Although you may have heard of using a 1031 exchange to defer capital gains tax from real estate sales, do you have other options for avoiding capital gains tax without a 1031 exchange? In this story, 453 Trust P...
China-US freight shipping rates stabilize at lower levels as December bookings slow This week, global trade policy saw several notable developments suggesting a turning point in how major economies manage supply chains, resource dependencies, and trade imbalances. The EU’s push to reduce dependency on Chinese raw materials and China’s simultaneous move to streamline rare-earth exports reflect a recalibration of trade flows, away from old dependencies and toward div...
SANTA MONICA – Marking a revival for the historic Santa Monica Airport (SMO), semi-private carrier JSX announced the launch of daily nonstop flights to Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas starting December 19, 2025, offering Westside travelers a hassle-free alternative to LAX's congestion with just 30 seats per flight on sleek ATR 42-600 turboprops. The service, operating seven days a week during SMO's standard hours (6 a.m. to 10 p.m.), arrives on the heels of a t...
SANTA MONICA – Caroline Torosis was officially sworn in as Santa Monica's mayor on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, in a ceremony at City Hall that blended pomp with pointed public scrutiny, as residents confronted her over a contentious county-backed plan to repurpose two luxury Ocean Avenue hotels into transitional housing for individuals with severe mental illness. Administered by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla in a departure from tradition, the oath-taking drew a p...
Pacific Palisades, Calif. - On Wednesday, the Palisadian Post, the community's newspaper of record since 1928, announced it will publish its final edition later this month, bringing to a close nearly a century of chronicling life in the tight-knit coastal enclave between Santa Monica and Malibu. In a heartfelt front-page letter to readers titled "A Farewell, With Gratitude," publisher Alan Smolinisky and editor Bill Bruns revealed that the devastating effects of the Palisades...
