Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Matthew is expected to scrape western Haiti on Monday as a major storm bringing 145 mile per hour (230 kph) winds and life-threatening rain to the southern coast, while simultaneously lashing Jamaica. Eastern Cuba also will feel bands of fierce wind and rains on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. They added that Matthew is closely tracking Hurricane Hazel from 1954, which damaged North Carolina after killing 1000 people in Haiti. The last time a Category 4 storm...
A " suspicious package" closed the Santa Monica Courthouse on September 28th. At about 12:45, Santa Monica police warned people to stay away from Main Street and Olympic Drive near the Santa Monica Courthouse. At 1:15, police and that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Arson-Explosives Detail found a suspicious package, that they ultimately determined to be papers and documents someone had left in the hallway. They gave the all clear at 3:30 pm. Santa Monica High School students...
A commuter train loaded with people crashed through barriers and into a New Jersey terminal during the Morning commute Thursday. Officials, who had initially said 3 people were dead, now say that one person was killed and 75 are injured. A New Jersey Transit train derailed during rush hour on Thursday morning and crashed into Hoboken terminal, one of the busiest in the state, and a huge commuter hub for those traveling to and from New York City. New Jersey Governor Chris...
Breaking news: when asked by MSNBCs Chris Matthews to name a foreign leader he admires, libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was unable to name a single foreign leader. Today's #1 campaign topic: Fat. Today's #1 campaign question: Has Gary Johnson smoked too much weed? Good Lord. This is absurd. At Stuart Rothenberg MODERATOR: Where do you stand on abortion rights? GARY JOHNSON: On the floor, usually. -- Sam Grittner gary johnson is living proof you literally don't...
In another North Carolina religious rights controversy, a federal district court judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block a NC law allowing religious accommodation for magistrates who don't want to officiate or grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Judge Max Cogburn upheld the law, which allows magistrates in that state to recuse themselves from having to participate in same-sex couple marriages. Same-sex couples may still marry in North Carolina, as provid...
In Afghanistan, Herat University is holding a peace rally just weeks after the deadly attack on the American University in Kabul killed 14 students and faculty. In Chicago, a moment of silence and a peace flag procession will cap three weeks of events calling for an end to violence in a city rocked by more than 500 homicides this year. In Washington D.C., youth leaders from Nigeria, Morocco and Uganda will share their personal stories that led them to create organizations...
A young man suffered cuts and bruises as an Eastbound Exposition Line train pulled out of the 17th Street Station on September 13th. This caused the train to sit on Colorado Blvd for almost 2 hours. A woman who claims to be an eyewitness says that the young man had just been dropped off by his father. He was on the island where it was permissible for passengers to wait for the train, and the train hit him anyway breaking his collarbone. Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department,...
Police attempted to serve an arrest warrant this afternoon in Charlotte, NC. It's a community that has had riots and police shootings recently. Police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, a black man in the attempt to serve an arrest warrant. It was uncertain whether Scott was the subject of the Arrest Warrant, but Police say he was armed. His family denies this and says Scott was simply attempting to pick up his son from school. About 30 riot officers were outnumbered by...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order that bars the Dakota Access Pipeline from working within 20 miles on both sides of the Missouri River at Lake Oahe. The Native American #NoDAPL protestors and their allies are seeking a permanent injunction to protect sacred sites and burial grounds around the lake. The court described Friday's order as "administrative," so as to give the judges more time to consider the merits of the underlying lawsuit. "The purpose of...
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, an Afghan-born American, was arrested by the FBI for the 2016 New York metropolitan area bombings. He was asleep outside a bar at the time, and the bar owner called police He was arrested Monday Morning in Linden, New Jersey after a shootout that wounded two police officers. One officer was shot in the vest, and another in the hand, both are expected to recover. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/us/new-york-explosion-investigation/index.html Rahami is the...
Authorities are investigating an explosion in a trash dumpster at 123 West 23rd Street Saturday night as terrorism. The event occurred at 8:30 pm New York Time, in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. At an 11PM press conference, Mayor de Blasio described the Chelsea explosion as an "intentional act." He said a second site four blocks away at 27th street was being searched. He said there was no evidence so far of terrorism. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) says 25 people...
Santa Monica has served thirty day notices to vacate, on two companies that service most day-to-day operations at the Santa Monica municipal airport. Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers are the airport's fixed base operators (FBOs in pilot parlance). They had master leases to operate airplane hangars, sell jet fuel and rent space to flight schools and offices on airport land. Without them, it is no exaggeration to say that SMO operations would cease. Which of course, is the...
Tuesday, September 13. Unarmed Native American "Water Protectors" protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline were arrested today, along with journalists who were trying to cover the action, and two medics who were with the protestors. All roads to the site are now blocked off, and there has been a near blackout of media coverage. Facebook commenters have said that their photo images of the arrest have been censored, and Unicorm Riot, which had been broadcasting...
Update Tuesday morning September 13: More than 160 firefighters eventually knocked down the blaze about two hours later, but several trucks remained at the scene Tuesday morning making sure no flare ups occurred. The 100-year-old two-story warehouse appears to be a total loss including all the businesses within it. Monday evening, 9/12: The Los Angeles Fire Department on its Twitter account is reporting a major fire burning at a smoking materials shop in little Tokyo near...
A car stolen from a dealership in Santa Monica, was involved in a police pursuit this afternoon. The pursuit ended on Washington and La Cienega when the stolen car collided with a Volvo driven by a father and an eight-year-old son. The father was killed in a collision. The pursued stolen vehicle I had at least four passengers. The female driver of that vehicle has been apprehended, is in custody, and will face charges and arraignment Monday. Other vehicle passengers in that...
Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton stumbled and fell as she left a 9/11 memorial in New York City today, September 11, 2016. Her doctors have announced that she was diagnosed with pneumonia Friday and put on antibiotics. Clinton and Trump had agreed not to actively campaign today, the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the United States. Update: Clinton unexpectedly left a New York City 911 memorial service early because of an undisclosed...
Protests across the country brought in a small victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their many supporters when the U.S. government promised to temporarily halt all construction on government owned land. Hundreds gathered in cities as far away as Denver and Tulsa to protest the fast-track approval given to Energy Transfer Partners and their subsidiary Dakota Access, LLC. Evidence indicates that approval sidestepped appropriate consultation with affected Tribes, as...
The Department of Justice, the Department of the Army and the Department of the Interior issued the following statement regarding Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: "We appreciate the District Court's opinion on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act. However, important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations and their members regarding the Dakota Access pipeline specifica...
A Federal Jury today ordered the City of Santa Monica to pay $1.1 million in damages to Justin L. Palmer, who was pepper sprayed during his arrest on April 21, 2015. Police Lt. Saul Rodriguez, SMPD Spokesman, said that the Department had not yet decided whether to appeal Justin Palmer, 36, was at the public car-charging station at Virginia Avenue Park (map) on the evening of April 21 when he was approached by officers who said the park had closed at 11 p.m. Palmer refused to...
After almost 18 months of construction, the new seismically safe California Incline opened to traffic on Thursday morning at 5 PM. The California Incline connects Ocean Avenue with PCH below. Since it closed in April of 2015, drivers have had to go through Santa Monica Canyon. This added 20 minutes to drives to Malibu or Pacific Palisades. Regular readers know that I'm very skeptical of anything the City does, but they really did need to improve the 1930's era California...
The Home Depot Foundation has announced it will grow its commitment to veteran-related causes to a quarter of a billion dollars by 2020. The Home Depot Foundation has focused on U.S. military veteran support since 2011. Today's increased commitment will help address continued veteran challenges, including: More than 39,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. More than one million veterans are considered at risk of homelessness due to poverty, lack of support networks...
A significant accident involving a car hitting an ambulance occurred at approximately 4 pm on Santa Monica Boulevard on Monday, 8/29. A Fire Department ambulance was proceeding south on 20th street, lights flashing and sirens blaring. The ambulance entered the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and 20th Street, crossing on a red light. A white SUV heading east on Santa Monica Boulevard apparently did not hear the siren approaching from 20th, at 90 degrees from her pos...
A young man was fatally injured in a collision with a car Tuesday night, just after 9 pm. He was skateboarding on Ocean Park Blvd near 23rd Street at the time, which is very near the Fairview Branch library. Below are details to the yesterday's fatal accident, from Saul Rodriguez, SMPD Public Information Officer On August 30, 2016 at approximately 2107 hours, SMPD received 911 calls of a vehicle versus a pedestrian collision just south of 23rd St and Ocean Park Blvd. Officers...
A metro Expo line test train collided with a private automobile at 11th and Colorado at 9 o'clock this morning. We didn't know they were still testing the train but I guess they are. No one on the train or in the car was injured. Metro released a statement confirming the accident. The Expo Line is a light-rail line that runs between Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The line is named "Expo" after Exposition Boulevard, which it runs alongside for most of its route. It is...
Six Santa Monica police units and 12 police officers responded to a report that an elderly man had hit a pedestrian in the alley between 9th Street and 10th Street, and between Washington Avenue and Idaho Avenue. The pedestrian, a younger man was injured but not seriously, police said. Perhaps the police reacted with so much force over the report of a simple accident, because of the 2006 incident at a Farmers Market on 4th and Arizona Avenue, where an elderly man killed 10...
