Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A dispute between two members of the Board of Directors of Santa Monica's only co-op, may put the prestigious property into receivership on Wednesday. In a hearing conducted on June 13, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Hart Cole said that she was inclined to appoint a receiver. "there is sufficient evidence to show misappropriation of funds," she said. She continued the hearing to June 27 and recommended that the two parties, John Spahi and Michael Reach, attempt to...
It is widely understood that despite local laws, Tenants rent out their Santa Monica units on Air BNB and other apps. If a tenants puts one apartment online, he's unlikely to be prosecuted. A local real estate agent was charged with unlawfully leasing nine residential housing units on Air BNB. Because that's just pushing it too far. The danger is that tenants will be replaced by vacation rentals. The NMS built properties along 7th street in Downtown SM, for example, are...
Saturday afternoon, the father of a John Adams Middle School student killed himself in front of the school. The father who was not identified, did not injure anyone else. School superintendent Ben Drati issued a statement of condolences, which is posted below. Dear SMMUSD parents, staff and community members, We are sadly reporting the passing of a John Adams Middle School (JAMS) parent today, who took his own life in front of the school this morning with a firearm. We are...
A court denied a pilots' group petition claiming the FAA exceeded its authority when it agreed to allow the city to shorten the airport's single runway last year. NBAA had petitioned the court to vacate the 2017 agreement, arguing that the FAA defied requirements set by Congress as well as the agency's own responsibility to support aviation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the petition on procedural grounds. As authorized by the agreement with...
National Park Service researchers recently discovered a litter of four mountain lion kittens in the Simi Hills, a small area of habitat wedged between the larger Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountain ranges. All four kittens are females and are now known as P-66, P-67, P-68, and P-69. The mother is P-62, who researchers have been tracking since January. Biologists visited the den site while she was away on June 11, locating it after several previous attempts failed because...
A dispute over the attention of a young woman ended with XXXTentacion slumped over the drivers seat of his vehicle on Monday at about 2 pm PST, or 5 pm in Florida. As he left a motorcycle dealership, several men shot in his direction. He was non-responsive and in a coma, said the Broward County Fire Dept. Witnesses reported multiple gunshots were fired. Onfroy was reportedly leaving a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach on June 18, 2018, when he was shot. The suspects...
Yesterday, whilst at my trip to Magic Springs, I was repeatedly harassed /by an EMPLOYEE/, and I've never been more hurt and embarrassed in my entire life. Let me start out by introducing myself. My name is Dane; I live over in Hot Springs Village, and I'm female to male transgender. This means, I was born a girl, but have been living as a man for the past several years. However, I pass and live fulltime as male, have had multiple surgeries, and years of hormone replacement...
Beginning in September, the City will run a 16 month program to study the feasibility of allowing electric rental scooters on City sidewalks and streets. Bird and Lime companies created controversy by simply renting the scooters on City streets without obtaining any prior permits. Their business plan was that they would get the permits later. Bird paid a $300,000 fine to the City in January, and agreed to distribute 22,500 free helmets to riders. The scooters can travel at...
A group of expatriate Korean Americans held a summit watching party Monday night, as President Donald Trump met DPRK leader Kim Jong Eun in Singapore. Due to the time shift, much of the activity was late at night The two Koreas have been separated since Josef Stalin insisted on a Communist government for the North in 1948. They have developed very different economies and governments. South Korea is affluent, while North Korea is among the worlds poorest economies and most...
both Lime and Bird issued statements applauding the City of Santa Monica's pilot program, adopted 6/12/18. Here are their statements: "We applaud the City of Santa Monica for formally embracing innovative transportation, and look forward to collaborating with them as they work to further establish regulations around an environmentally-clean, shared mobility program for scooters. We are supportive of a regulatory framework that prioritizes rider safety and accessibility, but...
A tremendous amount of coverage of the criminal justice system is focused on the perpetrators of crime and what should happen to them upon arrest and conviction. However, the unexplored and uncovered story is the number of violent and property crimes never reported to police, and the fact that few victims of violent crime receive any support services. The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) has been conducted annually since 1972. The...
Vehicle Collision at Santa Monica Parking Garage On Monday at 10:30 a.m. Santa Monica Firefighters responded to City Parking Structure # 5 located at 1440 4th Street for a report of a vehicle hanging off the side of the 5th floor parking level. Fire resources arrived within 5 minutes 47 seconds and found a late model Honda Civic that had driven off of the parking platform and was precariously hanging over the edge, only held in place by steel barrier cables. Prior to first...
Update, 6/8: The Observer received the following message from Early Warning: "To confirm, no “massive data breach” occurred, as your headline states. You received multiple emails due to an error of one of our IT systems. Early Warning uses a secure portal (website) as a way for consumers to send us data in a secure manner. On Sunday, June 3, a consumer was using the Portal to upload documents in relation to an ongoing interaction with Early Warning. When information is upl...
As FoxNews claimed the California's primary was a victory for the Republicans and MSNBC said the same about the Democrats, the truth is the results of California's primary were rather mixed. Republican John Cox, with 26% of the vote, defeated former LA Mayor Villaraigosa to advance to the finals in November. No one would have thought that possible as recently as March, when Cox received a ringing endorsement from President Donald Trump. Cox's presence at the top of the ballot...
Fashion designer Kate Spade hung herself with a Kate Spade scarf. First Responders found the fashion maven hanging from a doorknob and a scarf in her Manhattan apartment. She was 55 years old and suffering from clinical depression, for which she was taking medication. Spade hanged herself with a scarf on a doorknob in her apartment and was found by a housekeeper around 11 a.m. Tuesday, Police said. Kate Valentine, formerly known as Kate Spade, was an American fashion designer...
Sunday, June 3rd, in a Hollywood nightclub, Academy, hundreds of fans assembled to witness lead runner for the Gubernatorial race, Gavin Newsom, in his "Courage for a Change," rally. At 33 per cent in the lead, 48 hours before the close of the polls, Newsom sent the message out loud and clear, to get out the vote. Strobe lights danced across the floor. A post modern fresco alighted the ceiling with the rolling blue waves of California's coast. Above, the forever waves of...
The City Council is considering amending the municipal code to allow scooters to be parked on City sidewalks. At its June 12th meeting, the Council will consider an amendment to the code. As part of overall mandates, Santa Monica encourages electric and other less polluting transportation alternatives. As a practical matter, many riders who rent scooters from Bird, Lime and other purveyors, leave the vehicles on sidewalks, where the next rider finds them. While the scooters...
Just when you thought it was safe to drive down Wilshire Blvd, Trader Joes is eyeing a sight directly across the street from Whole Foods Market. Actually, our sources say a lease has been signed, and demolition of an existing car wash will begin soon. "It Could bring more cars, scooters, bikes and Ubers as well as garbage and delivery trucks + maybe rats and even hungry coyotes!!! On the other hand many residents will love a TJ's within walking distance and with better...
6/3: Residents in the neighborhood of a liquor store at 2600 block of Pico Blvd posted on social media that a patron of the liquor store was stabbed Saturday night as he exited the building. The assailant was apprehended by Santa Monica police, who taped off the area in order to conduct an investigation. The victim is at at UCLA Santa Monica hospital, sources say....
Gina Fuentes, a longtime resident of Santa Monica and a person active in the local Latin community, says that she was verbally assaulted at Extra Space Storage on 3250 Olympic Blvd in Santa Monica. "Yesterday afternoon I was blocked in and verbally assaulted by a man who repeatedly yelled orders at me, including racial slurs and threats," she posted. "He repeatedly called me a "white bitch" and the only thing that kept him from physically assaulting me was the fence between...
On Tuesday night, May 22, the Sant Monica City Council conducted a study session on the City's budget. Residents were invited to send in letters and share opinions in an open forum. The main problem is the City's current $461 million unfunded pension liability, which the City hopes to retire within 30 years. The City of Santa Monica pays over 200 employees more than $120,000 per year, and is notorious for overpaying its employees. "We are not in a position of crisis, but a...
He said he had a bomb, then split with nothing, and now he'll do time. The SMPD says it has arrested a suspect in the robbery of a jewelry store on Montana Avenue on February 28, 2018. Robert Art Abalov, 32, was found and arrested Tuesday in West LA, just over three months after he allegedly robbed Curated Los Angeles at 1603 Montana Ave. carrying a fake bomb. After Abalov left the store without any merchandise in the Feb. 28 incident, he got into his SUV and fled, crashing...
At today's meeting the members of the Southern California Republican Women and Men voted by a two-thirds majority to endorse John Cox to be the next Governor of California, the Group announced. "We consider it critically important that a Republican make it to the top 2 on June 5. While some of us may have preferred Travis Allen, we recognize the necessity of unifying behind the Republican candidate who has objectively established a decisive lead. A THIRD-PLACE FINISH BEHIND...
My story has been smuggled past my handlers, across my ankle bracelet, over the objections of my attorneys, and to you, my mostly male fans and followers. I assume you've read the cascade of stories from women, first documented by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker, then picked up by the NY Times. I, once the most powerful man in the capital of the entertainment industry, have fallen so far so fast that I no longer care what fate awaits me. Bring it on, prosecutors! Trust me,...
VA Undersecretary of Memorial Affairs to give Keynote Address Join us in remembering and honoring the sacrifice of our nation's heroes at the Los Angeles National Cemetery's Annual Memorial Day Ceremony. This event culminates a weekend of tributes honoring our fallen Veterans, including a flag placement ceremony, a flower placement ceremony, and a Roll Call of Honor. In addition to ceremony remarks by federal, state and local officials, more than 30 Consulates are...
