Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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It seems apparent that the Trump Whitehouse was not told in advance of Saturday's announced closure of the Santa Monica airport, as of 1/1/2029. That's because Donald Trump would never have agreed to it. At a hastily called Saturday meeting, the City Council approved a settlement with the FAA restricting SMO's use until 2029, followed by its closing and turning over of the land to the City. The timing of the announced settlement, one week after the swearing in of a new...
Update: Thursday night, 2/3: JAMS is closed Friday 2/3, due to Norovirus outbreak. From the District: On recommendation of the LA Department of Public Health, we are closing John Adams Middle School in Santa Monica, tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. An email / voice message from Principal Steve Richardson went to to parents and staff this evening, telling them JAMS would be closed. "We have had 80 students and 10 teachers become ill with what is believed to be the same thing,...
Santa Monica Airport is the oldest airport in Los Angeles County and at 110 years old, the fifth oldest in the State of California. It would appear that this afternoon, the City Council has negotiated with the FAA for the authority to close the airport on New Year's Day, 2029. Closing the airport has become a popular cause in Santa Monica. Airport opponents point out that due to the airports unique history as the Douglas aircraft headquarters until 1972, nowhere in America is...
A huge boulder fell on Topanga Canyon Boulevard during the rain Sunday night, not far from the town of Topanga. There were also mudslides and debris. As a result, California department of transportation has closed Topanga Canyon Boulevard until Thursday. A boulder twice the size of an SUV, rolled down a wet hillside and came to rest in the southbound lane. There was also a mudslide that blocked part of the northbound lane causing Caltrans to shut down Topanga Canyon Road, a...
Los Angeles (January 9, 2017) - GBK, the luxury lifestyle gift lounge and special events company honored the 2017 Golden Globe Awards' Nominees and Presenters. Held at the hot new West Hollywood venue, At The P, the guests were treated to a lavish array of gifts and services. At The P, has it all, a rustic, vintage venue perfect for your next party, business conference or photo shoot. This Awards season saw luxury lifestyle brands being showcased such as: Napa Technology,...
Update 9:19 am PST Monday: "Clean up operations are complete. The California Incline has reopened," says the City Traffic Dept. by e mail. Update, 4:34 pm PST Sunday: An e mail from the City of Santa Monica says: California Incline Closure due to weather conditions. Mud and Debris on roadway California Incline was shutdown "until further notice" due to mud and debris from the bluffs falling on the Incline. This in a notice from the City of Santa Monica's traffic Dept. Why the...
The City of Santa Monica will conduct its annual street-by-street enumeration of homeless individuals on the night of January 25, 2017,This annual count helps assess the City's efforts in addressing homelessness, and will be held in conjunction with other counts throughout the region taking place next week. The count starts at St. Monica Catholic Community - Grand Pavilion - 725 California Avenue, Santa Monica. Mayor Ted Winterer and City Council, City Manager Rick Cole,...
One year ago, the City of Santa Monica launched a program to add a strip of concrete down the center of 75 alleys. This allows rainwater to percolate through the strip and into the groundwater, then out to sea. The problem is, that center strip visibly wears out more quickly than the surrounding black asphalt. The City launched an "Alley Renewal Program" which, over 20 years, will "improve the condition and functionality of 75 of the City's most worn alleys. Project work...
A young woman named Helen Marona posted on Facebook that she intends to abort her fetus because Donald Trump was inaugurated today. Social media was rife with people responding to her sentiment, which added that she didn't want inauguration day to be the day she found out she was pregnant. Marona wrote: "Today my doctor told me I was pregnant. At first I was happy, but then I realised what it means. I don't really want to do it but I'm considering making an appointment to get...
After nearly three years, the underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has come to an official end. The plane disappeared over the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014, carrying 12 crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations. Next of kin of the MH370 passengers received a notification email on January 17, 2017, stating that the Australian Authorities have concluded the search with no success. A public statement was also issued on Tuesday, at 2 pm Malaysia...
VERMONT KNOLLS - Four children were dramatically rescued by firefighters, when flames erupted in a one story South Los Angeles home late Monday night. The Los Angeles Fire Department was summoned at 10:51 PM on January 16, 2017 to 861 West Manchester Avenue in the Vermont Knolls neighborhood, where firefighters arrived swiftly to find heavy fire showing from the front portion of a 432 square-foot one story residential bungalow. As first-arriving LAFD crews sprinted toward the...
Below is the press release from SMC, which is buying out YWCA's land grant on 14th Street. Only 4% of SMC students graduated from Santa Monica High School. Historically, "community colleges" were a place for local high school graduates to spend 2 years before they transferred to 4 year institutions. SMC's 33,000 enrollees are mostly foreign students obtaining a certificate in English proficiency. The Santa Monica College Board of Trustees announced an agreement with the YWCA...
Adrian Copeland noticed a crack in his balcony on W. Colt Ave. above Laurel Canyon. He rents the home with his wife. The Copelands ran out of the house Wednesday afternoon after hearing a noise, then they saw the crack widen, and a chunk of concrete from the balcony slide down the hill. Their home and the 2 neighboring homes have been red tagged and are unavailable for the residents to enter. The Los Angeles Department of Public Works needs to reassess the hillside. As a...
Noon Sunday 1/08/2016: Flash flooding and mud and debris flows possible for recent burn areas of southwestern California this evening through Monday morning. Locally, rain is expected to start around 4 am Monday morning, and has caused flooding damage and chaos in the Northern part of the State. The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a Flash Flood Watch for the recent burn areas in Los Angeles County, including the sand, fish, and other recent burn...
Some people just can't wait for the train to pass. 7th Street was closed to traffic at Colorado Blvd late Sunday morning, as a result of a train v. car collision. A Westbound Expo line train passing 7th Street on Colorado in Santa Monica collided with the rear end of a passenger car, according to an MTA employee who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press. "The car ran a red light," he said. "We don't know if anyone was injured in the...
1/06/2017: It was a dark and stormy night. The Captain of the Maersk Alabama did not see the reef near Langeoog Island, before he was upon it. The good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed, when the witch of the North Sea came calling. So they dumped a container over the side, and the result was a beach strewn with plastic, multi-colored Easter eggs. Authorities say the plastic eggs containing instructions in the Cyrillic alphabet, were dumped from a container that was lost...
UFO's have followed Falcon 9 rockets from Florida to California, and so the company plans to launch it's next rocket from an unmanned barge in the Pacific Ocean. A SpaceX rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad on September 1, 2016. Moving the launch to California did not help, since the same mysterious drone reappeared, and was recorded again by launch pad security cameras. The company has delayed the launch until January 14th, to investigate the latest UFO intervention....
Apparently, Pokemon Go characters have more to worry about than just Poke balls. A Pokemon Go ice cream truck cruising the streets of SoCal lures the little guys with promises of ice cream (and a charging station, say some on social media). Pokémon Go is a free-to-play, location-based augmented reality game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices. The game was the result of a collaboration between Niantic and Nintendo, by way of The Pokémon Company, and was i...
1/5/17: Two bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed off the coast of San Pedro, according to officials. The bodies were presumed to be that of photographer Michael Justice and pilot Christopher Reed, authorities said during a Thursday afternoon press conference. 1/4/2017: The US Coast Guard and others are responding to reports of a helicopter down in the ocean off San Pedro. So far no wreckage or victims have been spotted in the water. Angels Gate has...
It was a cold, cold New Year's Eve in Times Square last night. Mariah Carey will probably be forgiven for lip-synced her way through her hits onstage. Finally, she threw in the towel, reports the New York Daily News. "It just don't get any better," she hissed before leaving the stage. The pop icon brushed off the flub with a follow-up tweet later that evening."S--t happens," Carey said early Sunday. "Have a happy and healthy new year everybody! Here's to making more headlines...
After decades of advocating by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) for shutting down domestic ivory markets, the Chinese Government has delivered on their pledge to close domestic ivory markets in 2017. "This is a tremendous victory for elephants and we applaud China for showing such decisive action and leadership on this issue," said Azzedine Downes IFAW President and CEO. The announcement stipulates a phased schedule to revoke some licenses by March 2017 and to...
The announcement culminates months of vigorous internal debate over whether and how to respond to Russia's unprecedented election-year provocations, ranging from the hacks of the Democratic National Committee to the targeting of state electoral systems. Donald Trump will be in power in 3 weeks, and his softer view on Putin's Russia, indicates that he will undo the order. The Obama administration announced new measures on Thursday in retaliation for what U.S. officials have...
Official worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of December 25, 2016, have been announced, and Disney's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took in almost twice as much as the next closest contender, Universal's Sing. The top two movies showed a similar income divide in the USA. Scoring is reported by comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), the only theater-level reporting in the world. comScore's Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, "Disney's 'Rogue One: A Star Wars...
3/25: The Chabad Lubavitch Synagogue on Wilshire Blvd was smeared with dog feces on Sunday morning, reports Breitbart news. The Rabbi cleaned it up as best he could and let in congregants for morning prayers. Sunday was the first full day of Hanukah, and a menorah in the window may have attracted attention. According to the LA Times, Congregants arriving for prayers on Sunday morning at the Living Torah Center, a synagogue affiliated with the Orthodox Chabad movement, were...
If you're going to harass Ivanka Trump, her husband and children to the point where you get kicked off the flight, it's probably best not to brag about it on Twitter. Because when you do, everyone knows who you are. "Your father is ruining the country. They ruin the country now they ruin our flight!" said Dan Goldstein to Ivanka, on a Jet Blue flight. Both the gay couple and the Kushner-Trumps had their children with them. Lasner also suggested Ivanka and her family should be...
