Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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President Obama, visiting the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," says that he is "worried about the Republican Party" with the emergence of Donald Trump as its presumptive nominee. When Fallon asked Obama whether he thought the Republicans were happy with their choice of Trump, Obama replied, "We are." The audience laughed. It was the President's first visit to Jimmy Fallon, and his first public appearance after endorsing his former Secretary of State. For readers who...
Concerns were especially high as the 46th annual Gay Pride Parade, America's oldest and largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning gathering, had expected to attract over 400,000 along West Hollywood's Santa Monica Boulevard by the 11 a.m. start. Sheriff's Lt. Edward Ramirez told City News Service this morning, "In light of the unfortunate shooting incident in Orlando, Florida, the Sheriff's Department is fully prepared to respond to a similar situation, shoul...
The Santa Monica Police report heavy police activity, on the 1300 block of 14th street. This is the block between Santa Monica Blvd and Broadway. They don't tell us the nature of the police activity. The e mail reads in full: 1300 5th street closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic, heavy police activity This e-mail has been sent to you by the CITY OF SANTA MONICA. To maximize their communication with you, you may be receiving this e-mail in addition to a phone call with the...
Today at approximately 10:10 AM, Santa Monica Fire Department received reports of a construction accident, resulting in a severed natural gas main at 2425 Olympic Blvd. First arriving units found a high pressure, 1" gas main severed with no fire. 3 Engines, a Ladder Truck, a Hazardous Materials Unit, and Chief Officer Supervisor, ultimately responded to manage the incident. This leak resulted in the evacuation of 2 neighboring office buildings, 2425 Olympic, and 1620 26th...
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is the principal law enforcement agency in West Hollywood. They issued the following statement 11:15 a.m. 6/12: Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families of this horrific attack which occurred in Orlando early this morning. While there are no specific or credible threats received by law enforcement for the greater Los Angeles area, our personnel maintain a heightened state of situational awareness and remain vigilant...
Update: There is now a petition being cirulated to recall Judge Persky, who was re-elected to a 12 year term on June 7th. 44,000 residents who are properly registered to vote in Santa Clara County would have to sign it. PALO ALTO -- At least 10 prospective jurors who oppose Judge Aaron Persky's sentence imposted former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner prison for a sexual assault, more or less refused this week to serve on a jury in an unrelated case he presides over, says the...
A moderately large earthquake rocked rural Southern California nearly 30 miles south of Palm Springs. The epicenter was in the desert. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.2 temblor struck just after 1 a.m. Friday. USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says it was strong enough to have awakened sleepers. She says the shallow quake touched off a series of smaller aftershocks, registering between magnitude-2.6 to 3.6. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Riverside...
Michael Andrew Jace, an actor who portrayed a police office on the TV show, The Shield, was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of his wife. Jace fatally shot his wife, April Jace, in front of their two young sons at their Los Angeles home in May of 2014. Jace, now 53, believed that his wife was having an affair. At the time of the shooting, April Jace wanted a divorce. Jace waited in their home for April to come home and when she did, around...
Well, at least they asked him to Run for President in 2020. Assuming of course Donald R. Trump is not the incumbent. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) faced tough questioning at 2012 running mate Mitt Romney's annual E2 summit Friday, attendees report. In particular, attendees such as Meg Whitman demanded an explanation for his decision to endorse Trump, and he tried to explain his thinking to an audience hostile to the Donald. Ryan's appearance allowed people to discuss...
Update, 6/9/2016: President Obama today whole heartedly endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. This seems to create a conflict of interest for the Dept. of Justice, which has announced publicly that they are investigating her for violations of several statutes. It seems to require the appointment of an independent counsel prosecutor under statutes enacted in response to Nixon's transgressions. Stay tuned. Last Saturday, a journalist employed by liberal Huffington Post...
In a final attempt to placate Progressive Democrats disappointed with his Presidential legacy, at 11 a.m. PST, President Barrack Obama emerged from a meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders, and endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. Clinton locked up the nomination on June 7th, when she won a string of state primaries, including California. Sanders vowed he would still compete in the Washington DC Primary, but did not say whether he would contest the Democratic National...
Okay, so let's get the sequence of events clear here: Hulk Hogan permissively has sex with a friend's wife, which the husband films. Hulk Hogan Sex Tape is somehow obtained by celebrity gossip site Gawker, and posted on the internet for all to see. Hogan get's mad, files lawsuit in Florida, and tells his story tearfully to a jury. Jury awards Hogan $140 million and this morning, Gawker files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy code. Got all that?...
Presumptive Republican party presidential nominee Donald R. Trump has been made of teflon, but attacking the judge in the Trump University case for his Mexican heritage, may have finally backfired for the candidate. Trump labelling of an American judge as "Mexican" in order to cast doubt on his fairness, has been labeled simple racism by many Republicans - even House Speaker Paul Ryan - and has again increased fears that Trump will destroy down-ballot Republicans in November....
We received a press release saying that Santa Monica Public Works Director Martin Pastucha, has announced his retirement. His current salary is $270,924 annually. This made me curious (and envious): The City just hired a City Clerk who earns $255,000 a year. The City Manager makes $330,000 a year. First of all, these are astronomical to me, a journalist. Second, the highest elected official in California, Governor Jerry Brown, earns $192,000 a year. Why is it that the SM City...
A Long Beach man was convicted today of fatally stabbing a Cal State Northridge student after responding to the student's Craigslist ad to sell his car, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury of nine women and three men deliberated just 15 minutes before finding Agustin Rosendo Fernandez, 29, guilty of the first-degree murder of Abdullah Alkadi, 24. Jurors also found true the special circumstances of murder during a robbery and murder during a...
An unloading accident caused an acid spill that prompted the evacuation of a Starkist Foods canning facility in Eastvale, Riverside County. 15 workers went to a hospital for hazardous chemical inhalation, said the Riverside County Fire Department. A firefighter also went to the hospital with unspecified minor injuries not related to breathing difficulty, officials said. Roughly 40 gallons of concentrated cleaning acid spilled about 2:45 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at the expansive...
Sacramento, CA – A measure authored by Senator Ben Allen (D – Santa Monica) and Senator Mark Leno (D – San Francisco) urging California's Congressional representatives to work to overturn the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision will appear on the November 2016 ballot. Today, Governor Jerry Brown allowed SB 254 to become law without his signature, clearing the way for the Citizens United question to advance to the statewide ballot. The 2010 Citizens Unite...
Fifteen years after his first victim was found strangled to death in an abandoned Santa Monica home, transient Edric Dashell Gross, 50, has been found guilty of her murder and that of a second victim. This is the second trial for Gross regarding the two murders. A 2015 trial ended with a hung jury. In April, 2001, Jacqueline Ovsak, 42, was found raped and strangled to death in an abandoned building in Santa Monica. A murder investigation was initiated, but led nowhere. Over a...
Update: Cricket Wireless has still offered no explanation for the nationwide cell phone outage that began 2 PM on Friday, May 27 and lasted until 7 a.m. PST on Saturday, May 28, 2016. However, they are offering a credit of $5 per line to each customer. You do have to call 611 from your phone and ask for it, and then wait on hold while some dude in Costa Rica processes the refund. That $5 per line, so in my case, it was $25. It was an unprecedented national cell phone outage...
Elon Musk has been called a twenty-first century Leonardo Da Vinci. When he was 21, he and his brother invented a way to send money by e mail. They called it PayPal. He sold the company to Ebay for $100,000,000 when he was 24. He is the genius behind SpaceX, Solar City and Tesla Automotive. He may well be the smartest man alive on Earth today. And women completely baffle him. But that is a story for another day. At the annual Recode Code Conference, he decided to let us in on...
A woman who originally registered to vote in 1978 and has voted in every election since then was handed a provisional ballot instead of a regular ballot at a polling place in Santa Monica, California on Tuesday because she had changed her registration from Democrat to Republican. "They had me on their list as a Democrat still," Amanda Hill (not her real name) reported. "And they wouldn't give me a Republican ballot. Instead, I got handed this pink envelope to fill out and...
"That was messed up, Butthead." Okay, that's not really what they said, but still one group of Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters were recently caught on camera beating each other up, mistaking each as Donald Trump supporters. In the video, protestors argue and become violent with each other, apparently mistaking each other for Donald Trump supporters. Once they start shouting at each other, the two groups realize they all support Sanders, and begin to chant "Bernie! Bernie!...
Update, 10:45 p.m. PST: Sen. Sanders took the podium in Barker Hanger in front of a crowd of cheering supporters. He refused to concede, and said he would take the fight to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. This surprised analysts, who noted that Clinton now has the majority of delegates, both pledged and "super-delegates." He smiled as he stood with his wife and family. He thanked supporters for their hard work "for being part of the political revolution,"...
A severely ill woman who seemed to have symptoms consistent with Ebola, caused a response from firemen in Hollywood last night. In a scene right out of a Hollywood movie, a battalion of firemen along with helicopters, Los Angeles Police officers and paramedics brought 200 neighbors into the street to gawk. The Los Angeles Fire Department, including 33 firemen and a Hazardous Materials Team, were called about 9:15 p.m. to the 5900 block of Barton Avenue, immediately west of Par...
Update: Police helicopters spotted two more great white sharks in the waters off Seal Beach on Monday. 2 miles of beach from Seal Beach to Huntington Beach was closed. Second day, second closure due to sharks. Police Lt. Claude Panis noted that the sharks weren't doing anything threatening, but the beach was closed nevertheless in an abundance of caution. An Orange County Sheriff's Department helicopter crew sighted "several large sharks" trolling the waters off Anderson...
