Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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SAN DIEGO – The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of 25 passengers and crew after their vessel began taking on water near San Clemente Island, Sunday. At 2:51 a.m., Sunday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San Diego's Joint Harbor Operations Center, received a distress call from the 63-foot charter-fishing vessel Truline, reporting they struck a submerged object and were taking on water approximately one-half mile south of San Clemente Island. A Coast Guard Sector San D...
Update, 3/21: Romario Snow has been located in the City of Inglewood. He will be reunited with his mother shrotly and is in good health. He was locsted as a result of the media coverage. Thank you very much. -- Lt. Saul Rodriguez, SMPD The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) is seeking the public's assistance in locating a critical missing adult, Romario Snow, a 21-year old autistic man. On March 19, 2017 at about 1:52 p.m., the critical missing adult was last seen by Los...
3/16/17--The City of Santa Monica reports a fatality collision which closed Lincoln Blvd and Hill Street after 7 am Thursday. At 6:15 a.m., the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) says, it responded to a radio call for service regarding a traffic collision involving a pedestrian at the intersection of Lincoln Blvd and Hill Street. The woman was said to be a local grandmother. "Upon arrival, officers discovered a pedestrian in the roadway with significant injuries. The...
America's latest tech billionaire Evan Spiegel grew up surfing in LA. Then he went to Stanford, where he met Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy. Together, they designed a social media app that allows users to share images and videos, which will then vanish. Snapchat has 30 million monthly active users, and Wall Street just rewarded Snap with an IPO that made them rich beyond their wildest dreams. What exactly is wrong with Spiegel, Murphy and Brown living their American dream? We a...
This month California's Second Appellate District, Division Two, Court of Appeal upheld an award of $21 million in punitive damages and $2.2 million in compensatory damages against building contractor Noam Bouzaglou, his corporation, Ness Adam, Inc. and attorney Andrew J. Stern. Defendants allegedly perpetrated a fraud against Kathleen and Tim McGinty, in order to obtain their modest family home in Santa Monica. Kathleen is autistic. Her brother suffered throughout his life...
A woman was hit by a sports car on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica today around 10:30 AM. This accident took place on Wilshire between fifth and fourth Street. The pedestrian was not seriously injured and was transported to a local hospital....
The Coast Guard Captain of the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach is warning vessel operators and the general public of illegal charter boats in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area. In an effort to ensure public safety on local waterways, the Captain of the Port issued several "Captain of the Port Orders" to specific vessel operators to cease operations as commercial vessels carrying more than six passengers, including one passenger for hire, and in some cases to cease operations carr...
3/15/17--A water main broke on Colorado between 20th St. and Cloverfield Blvd. Tuesday night, said the city manager's office in a press release. The break caused a loss of water and other services to several commercial buildings near the intersection. "Since 5 a.m. Public Works crews have been on site to excavate the area and patch the pipe to resume water to water customers in the surrounding area. Once excavated, it became clear that a Los Angeles County storm drain pipe...
The City of Santa Monica sent the following notice at 10:30 am Friday morning: Due to a multi-vehicle traffic collision and investigation, westbound San Vicente Blvd (2200-2600 Blocks) will be closed for approximately 2 hours. Did you know that the center strip on San Vicente hosted a trolley line until about 1955? The boulevard is the northernmost major street in Santa Monica, and runs through downtown Brentwood, Los Angeles. It begins from Palisades Park at the intersection...
3/7/17: The Coast Guard, along with members of the FBI, Los Angeles Port Police, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, Long Beach Police Department and Long Beach Fire Department held a full-scale emergency response exercise in the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The exercise is designed to enhance federal, state and local response coordination if there was a threat to the port. The exercise was...
March 2, angry Venetians demonstrate outside of SNAP INC's Venice headquarters for the third day in a row. The technology company, with its nascent IPO has become a political issue for the March 7th LA City Council District 11 race. Incumbent Mike Bonin is running against his opponents, Robin Rudisill, former CPA, CFO, and chair of the Venice LUPC(land use and planning committee), and Mark Ryavec, founder of VSA, and former chief debuty tax assessor for LA County. Amidst SNAP'...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has suddenly trapped visiting Malaysians citizens in its country. Malaysia has taken the same step, keeping DPRK staff from departing its embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Neither country is a great power, and they do not border each other, so the conflict in their relationships is surprising and sudden. While no one knows for sure the number of Malaysians in the DPRK, the number is certainly less than 1000 and could be less than 100....
It has long been known that Santa Monica gives it's employees stupendous wages and benefits. 112 City of Santa Monica employees make more than $250,000 per annum. SMPD Beat policemen make on average, $102,000 a year, and can retire with a full pension at 55 years of age. The City Manager makes $425,000 a year (no, that's not a typo). And so on down the line. Now pensiontracker.org has ranked California cities by pension debt per household. We would like to report that Santa...
The Coast Guard has ceased for a possible missing swimmer near Bolsa Chica State Beach Saturday. Initially, authorities searched for three young men who went swimming. 2 were quickly found, but 18 year old Shaun Linn was not found as of noon Sunday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a call from a good Samaritan at 5:17 p.m., reporting that Shaun Linn, an 18-year-old male, entered the water and did not return to the surface approximately...
The LGBTQ Community showed great fear when the LGBTQ page was stripped from the White House website earlier this year. It's becoming apparent that fear was backed with good reasoning. On Wednesday Trump took away federal protection for transgender youth to use the restroom of their personal identity. It is now up to each state to decide whether or not they will back the protective rights put in place to assure that this nation's youth are safe and comfortable in their place...
For the fifth time in 3 months, a Russian diplomat has died under suspicious circumstances. Vitaly Churkin death at Russia's consulate in New York City has been explained as a mere "heart attack." But his death involved a mysterious femme fatale, sources say. Russia's UN Ambassador reportedly shared the intimate company of a much younger woman before he showed up dead at the Russian Consulate in New York City on Monday morning. The official line was that he suffered a heart at...
A woman bearing a close resemblance to Huong sang on the show as contestant number 67816 on June 3, 2016. Facial recognition tools give a match to the pictures released by Malaysian police of Huong in custody. The Facebook page belonging to the accused assassin shows her in an 'LOL' shirt. Doan Thi Huong, posted glamour-type photos on her Facebook page called 'Ruby Ruby', and many of her Facebook friends were Koreans. The Vietnamese woman suspected of helping to kill the...
More than 120 investors have written a statement to banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline advising them to promote a new route: "We call on the banks to address or support the Tribe's request for a reroute and utilize their influence as a project lender to reach a peaceful solution that is acceptable to all parties, including the Tribe." The investors, representing $653 billion in managed assets, fear an escalation of conflict and contamination of the water supply to the...
St. Monica's Catholic Church was overflowing with crowds, as hundreds of family members, friends and classmates came to mourn the unexplained loss of a beautiful teenage girl name Kelly Cano. She was remembered as a kind, conscientious and loving member of her family and of the broader community. The emotionally charged ceremony saw family members and friends alike leave the church heads bowed under the weight of this sudden tragic loss. A loss that brought a community...
Vitaly Churkin died in New York City on 20 February 2017. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement that read he "died suddenly." It further noted: "A prominent Russian diplomat has passed away while at work. We'd like to express our sincere condolences to Vitaly Churkin's family." Russian president Vladimir Putin was said to have been personally upset by his death. The combative, career diplomat recently referred to trumps UN ambassador Samantha Power, as "mother Theres...
A four story hotel burned in Baldwin Park, CA tonight. 5 guests suffered smoke inhalation, but quick work by the Los Angeles County Fire Department prevented anyone from being seriously injured. A heavy presence of fire fighters were seen at the La Puente exit to the 405 freeway. The fire was contained to one unit on the third floor. The 2 alarm fire at the Regency Inn, a 187 room hotel located at the intersection of Merced and Dalewood Street, caused delays on the...
2/16 9 pm PST -- The Captain of the Port will be enforcing a temporary safety zone due to hazardous weather and sea conditions in the vicinity of the Morro Bay Harbor entrance from midnight, Thursday, to midnight March, 2, 2017. A high surf advisory issued by the National Weather Service warns of high surf building from to 12 to 15 feet today and up to 18 feet Saturday. Large waves and rip currents can increase ocean dangers for boaters, swimmers and surfers. The safety zone...
We have had a challenging few days here with some misinformation first published by you, and while you took down the story, it appears that wire services picked it up and damage was done. I've spent three days making corrections and clarifications. To name a few errors, by recall, as I did not print out the story, now not accessible: - Sandy Cano, Kelly's mom, is a school nurse in our district, not Samohi. - The illnesses should not be considered "mysterious," as at this time,...
Update, 2/15: Malaysian police have arrested the taxi driver who drove away from the airport with the 2 female assassins of Kim Jong Nam, says a local news website in Kuala Lumpur. The two women told the taxi driver that they were Vietnamese. It is unclear whether the taxi driver will be charged with a crime. Kim Jong Eun assassinated his own uncle, and now apparently his own half brother. The two men may never have actually met, but a half brother represented a threat to the...
The Santa Monica Malibu Unified School district has cancelled all "optional group activities such as dances, field trips, camp trips and music rehearsals at all our schools." The decision was made on the advice of the Dept. of Public Health. The District has been struggling with a Norovirus outbreak 10 days ago during a 7th grade field trip to Yosemite. Separately, a 17 year old girl died at Santa Monica High School last week. Her death has been attributed to a mysterious...
