Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The Santa Monica Fire Dept. reports that it saved a 20 story hotel, the Huntley Hotel, from becoming fully engulfed in flames on Sunday afternoon. The fire started in the trash bins behind the hotel, and spread to the 3rd, 4th and 5th floors. The press release from SMFD PIO Captain Patrick Nulty reads as follows: On Sunday December 22nd, 2019 at approximately 12:13 a.m. Santa Monica Firefighters responded to the rear of 1111 2nd Street in the City of Santa Monica for a report...
The U.S. Supreme Court on December 16 declined to take up a case regarding homeless outdoor sleeping. The Court's rejection of the case lets stand a Ninth Circuit ruling that governments cannot make sleeping in public a crime. The initial case involved six homeless individuals claiming the City of Boise had violated their Eighth Amendment right to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. Each of them had been cited and jailed under a pair of Boise statutes designed to curb...
In November, news broke that the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) had declared Santa Monica must build 9,118 housing units before 2029, 69 percent of which have to be affordable. This raised the previous demand from SCAG, which had been 4,800 units. Santa Monica's current population is 93,556. Immediate hand-wringing ensued, with the Santa Monica City Council considering various drastic rezoning schemes to enable the shoe-horning of such a large number of...
Investigators say electrical problem sparked blaze that engufed three propane-powered buses Saturday night, December 20th. The fire began in the "LAXit" lot at Los Angeles international airport. There were no injuries, and no one was especially near the buses at the time. The fire was visible throughout the crowded airport, and could be seen a mile away. Some speculated the propane tanks could've burned. The Los Angeles Airport Authority has emphasized the growth of LAX...
Santa Monica residents are circulating an online petition at Change.org, demanding that the City of Santa Monica perform annual assessments of its funding for social service agencies and programs. "City staff publicly admitted that they do not prepare annual assessments," the petition says. "This lack of transparency and accountability is unacceptable." Lacking a "realistic mechanism for annual assessments," Santa Monica "will continue to simply collect unverified,...
One thing is certain: Trump joins a small club including Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, as the most hated US Presidents ever while in office. "Trumps letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading facts," said CNN. "It accuses Nancy Pelosi of abusing her power, when it's Trump who abused his." "This is the most partisan impeachment ever," said FoxNews. "It is an impeachment designed to make Trump unelectable in 2020, rather than to...
The City of Santa Monica just announced a settlement with AIRBNB. AIRBNB is a website and smart phone App that permits tenants to sublease their homes as temporary vacation rentals. Demand for rentals and hotel rooms in Santa Monica is extremely strong. A rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica might rent for as little as $1500 a month. An AIRBNB rental for that same one bedroom, would net the tenant $120 a day, or $3600 over an entire month, netting the tenant $2000 or so....
The BCC, LAPD and Dept of Fish and Game and other agencies participated in the 2 pm Tuesday raid of a purportedly illegal marijuana clinic on Tuesday afternoon, December 10th. At least 20 officers were seen lining up the rather genteel looking staff from Grace on a Pico Blvd sidewalk, handcuffed as they chatted with each other about holiday plans. "Dude. It's like, totally legal to sell weed in California. But you got to get the permits first, dude. And pay the taxes,"...
Donate gently used or new clothing and shoes to the Flair Cleaners 17th Annual Flair Cares Holiday Clothing and Shoe Drive. Drop off items at Flair Cleaners in Santa Monica, 720 Montana Ave., (between 7th and Lincoln) through December 31, 2019. Home Pickup and Delivery customers can leave their clearly marked donations out for their driver. "It's time to put the clothes and shoes you never wear into the hands of those who need them most during the 17th Annual Flair Cares...
On October 19 incident on the Santa Monica Pier resulted in pepper spray assaults all around. Pro and anti-trump demonstrators confronted each other. Santa Monica police announced a second arrest in the case Wednesday. At some point during the confrontation, two subjects began to spray the crowd with pepper/bear spray indiscriminately. David Dempsey was detained and arrested at the scene. He has plead not guilty. Police today identified Joseph Krongchana, 34, as a second...
Although I spent my high school years in a suburb of Los Angeles, I've called San Francisco my home for the last 19 years. In 2001, I embarked on my career of public service, joining the California Attorney General's Office in the Criminal Division and becoming a San Francisco Assistant District Attorney in 2006. San Francisco has always been a challenging place to be a prosecutor. The judges and juries are quite liberal and the Public Defender's Office has had a long history...
In one of those moments that shortens the seven degrees of separation between Santa Monica residents and the power brokers in Washington, Samohi alumnus Dean Chien was chosen to ask Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a pointed question at the Town Hall in our nation's capital on December 5. Chien was president of Santa Monica High School's student body when he graduated in 2016. Now, as a senior at Johns Hopkins University, he's once again student body president and has been...
An 87 year old man reportedly suffered a violent blow to his head delivered by another male pedestrian. The assailant and victim were walking at the intersection of Lincoln and Wilshire on Saturday December 7th 11.15am. The family has appealed to local residents, seeking to find any witnesses, and any information possible to identify and capture the suspect. The victim is a retired doctor and a longtime Santa Monica resident. The victim is described as an 87 year old Asian...
The Santa Monica Airport Commission, agreeing with the concerns of residents, voted unanimously on November 19 to oppose the city's plan to 'temporarily' move some of their services to the Santa Monica Airport. The fact the city would unilaterally and without any public process begin constructing facilities for themselves on airport land should be deeply troubling to those concerned about city officials' eventual plans for the airport, which is slated to close at the end of...
Winter Storm in Santa Monica By Samuel Alioto 11/27: A storm from the Gulf of Alaska dropped rain on Southern California Wednesday. Snow in the mountains, and cold winds were expected through Thanksgiving making roads dangerous for travelers. In Santa Monica, homeless men gathered under awnings in Reed Park. On a normal day, they would be lying on sleeping bags and blankets throughout the Park at Wilshire and Lincoln. But the ground was far too wet for that. Many employed...
Ran Sikolsky and Jonathan Guttman were insulted and refused service due to their foreign ancestry at a Venice Starbucks, the two men allege in a complaint filed today at the Santa Monica courthouse. When Sikolsky and Guttman walked up to the Starbucks counter to order coffee and water, they were asked to pay 25 cents each for the water. They complied and ten minutes later they were given the coffee, but not the water. When they walked up to the Counter to ask for their water...
Update, 8:30 PM: Police apprehended one suspect and are searching for a second. "They're having a debrief with all the officers. One of the cops just told me they found the suspect hiding in a yard 5 houses away," posted one local resident. Los Angeles Police are investigating the robbery of a residence at 503 Avondale Apartments in Brentwood, Friday afternoon around 4:30 pm. The suspect is said by some to have fled the scene in a Toyota Corolla, then crashed into a structure...
Update 6 PM PST electrical power has been restored to all areas. A power outage at Lincoln and Washington extending over at least eight square city blocks began at about 4 p.m. on Monday, November 25th. "A squirrel crawled into a transformer causing it too short" said one Santa Monica fire department fireman Another local resident said that his entire house shook when the transformer or power relay exploded. Southern California Edison lineman were on the outage 20 minutes...
The City of Santa Monica issued the following alert through its electronic system at 9:30 am on Wednesday morning: An electrical storm with lightning has been reported in Santa Monica. Please evacuate all ocean and beach/sand areas. If on the beach or on the Santa Monica Pier, seek shelter indoors until the storm has ended. In 2008, two surfers were struck by lightning on Venice Beach. One of them, a 22 year old man, died. The other man, named Bob Kilroy, was a 64 year old...
2/13: The Santa Monica City Council voted to extend Santa Monica’s Shared Mobility Pilot Program. You may recall that Bird started putting its scooters in Santa Monica without first obtaining any sort of permit. The City initially resisted, after some residents complained. Then it devised a plan to allow 4 companies including Bird and Lyft, to put their scooters and semi electric bikes in Santa Monica. “The extension through May 2020 will pave the way for a second pilot pro...
There is still no answer why medical waste appeared on Venice Beach on 11/10/2019. More than 100 needles and other medical supplies washed ashore on Venice beach Sunday morning, lifeguards said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department's lifeguard division made the unsettling discovery "along the shoreline south of the #VeniceBeach Pier," according to their twitter account. "At Approx. 11:30 AM today @lacolifeguards visualized a large amount of medical supplies along the...
A 25-year-old transient was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing five people after he set fire to a vacant building in the Westlake District three years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Last November, Johnny Josue Sanchez, 26, was found guilty of five counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. The special circumstance allegation of multiple murders and arson murder were found to be true....
The SMPD has appealed for assistance in locating Mr. Jerry Peels who was last seen on November 1, 2019. Jerry Peels, 62, is a resident of the Beachwood Homes located in the 1300 block of 15th Street in Santa Monica. He was last seen leaving a dialysis appointment in the 2000 block of Santa Monica. He suffers from dementia and requires routine dialysis treatments. "If you have any information on Jerry's whereabouts, we ask that you contact the Santa Monica Police Department,"...
The homeless man who shot a father in front of his own children has been indicted, the LA County DA said. On June 22, 2019, Rauda shot and killed Tristan Beaudette, 35, while he was camping in a tent with his two daughters in the state park. The children were not injured. Anthony Rauda was already in jail for gun violations has been charged in several shootings, including one that killed a father camping with his children, and a string of burglaries all occurring in the area...
The canyon of construction that Lincoln Boulevard has become near the 10 Freeway onramp is going to receive a new addition to the mess this spring. The current surface parking lot between Santa Monica Boulevard and Broadway, once a block of one-story shops, will be demolished in turn to allow construction of a five-story mixed-use building at 1430 Lincoln Boulevard. The developer of the building is WS Communities - isn't that a nice name? Sounds so friendly. But WS...
