Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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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...
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...
Update: The evacuation order was lifted on February 14, 2017 at 2 pm PST, for communities below Oroville dam. The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has ordered the immediate evacuation of the lower levels of Oroville, CA and the areas downstream. Lake Oroville went from 8-% full to over 100% full in just one week. The danger is not to the earthen dam itself, but to the emergency spillway which has been operated in full activation mode, for the first time in 48...
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...
The Syrian government executed up to 13,000 prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The Syrian Justice Ministry denied the Amnesty report, calling it completely "devoid of truth", Syrian state news agency SANA reported late on Tuesday. Amnesty said the executions took place between 2011 and 2015, but were probably still being carried out and amounted to war crimes. It...
The Los Angeles Department of transportation announced the full reopening of Laurel Canyon Blvd on Saturday, February 11. Laurel Canyon opened at 1:30pm and will remain open thereafter. Laurel Canyon road closed on Jan. 11 after part of the foundation and patio of a home in the 8100 block of West Gould Avenue gave way, causing a mudslide. "City agencies have worked around the clock to provide safeguards to hillside neighborhoods due to unprecedented rainstorms. This has been...
As dawn broke over West Los Angeles, early risers were treated to a rare sight: an enormous geyser of water. An inattentive driver, possibly one who fell asleep in the early morning hours of Thursday, hit a fireplug on Pico Blvd near Veteran Avenue in West LA. Our photographer caught the 50 foot geyser that resulted. It filled the early morning sky in front of the Mattress Town Mattress store. After about 45 minutes, crews from the Department of Water and Power had the water...
February 2017 Los Angeles – Film and Music have always served as the inspiration to the soul, mediums where dreams and ideas can become a reality where millions can come together to share in the experience. Cinemagic is an award winning festival that embraces the magic of film, television, digital technologies and music, to educate, motivate and inspire young people through film screenings, industry workshops, practical masterclasses, filmmaking projects and outreach a...
Editor's note: The authenticity of this story is disputed, with some on social media insisting that the incident happened, and others saying it is a false report. For the moment we continue to post the story. Police have raided the Last Child Camp at Standing Rock, arresting some and sending others out into the snow, at the same time blocking the route to the main camp. It is currently 10 degrees F in the area. Little information is available at this time, as streaming video h...
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,...
