Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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In a way, it is a contest no one wants to win. Wednesday night, the Cat of Santa Monica conducted its annual homeless count. The count is expected to show a growing population of homeless people are over 60 years in age, women. College graduates have also increased in size. And of course, a surprising number of homeless are native born residents. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tracks the results in each community to determine the amount of federal f...
Saturday, January 21st, 2018, the day that marks the one year anniversary of Trump's inauguration approximately 500,000 people took to the streets of downtown Los Angles, to participate in the annual Woman's March that also took place in other cities across the nation. While the people marched, instead of celebrating his one year anniversary in Mar-a-lago, President Trump remained in Washington to deal with the government shut down that was the result of a dispute between Trum...
According to neighbors a "big accident" on Wilshire Blvd between 17th and 18th street occurred late Wednesday afternoon. The Santa Monica Police Dept closed Wilshire Blvd between 16th and 18th into the evening hours. According to Blue Bus drivers, there were reportedly fatalities. @SantaMonicaPD advised one person transported to the hospital in very serious condition. Wilshire Blvd was reopened at 9 pm....
The Los Angeles County Coroner Friday afternoon released the toxicology report on the death of Tom Petty. It says the singer died from "Multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to mixed drug toxicity (fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl)" Petty was found in his Malibu home, dead at age 66 of heart failure on October 3, 2017. The Singer was acclaimed for balads such as "I Won't Back...
The City of Santa Monica, ever vigilant to protect others from ripping them off, has filed a criminal complaint against Bird, the company providing phone-app electric scooters for rent. Bird provides the single-person electric scooters that can be found parked on sidewalks throughout the city. The devices can be unlocked with a phone-based app. To ride costs $1 per unlocking plus 15 cents per minute. When finished, the rider then relocks the device using the phone...
An internal investigation into the possibility of conflicts of interest among members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board will be presented at their meeting on Thursday. After the Los Angeles Times broke a story in November, 2017, about potential conflicts of interest regarding School Board Member Maria Leon-Vazquez and her husband, Santa Monica Councilmember Tony Vazquez, the school board launched this internal investigation. The investigation ended up...
Some on Twitter profess that it happened just at the moment when shifts at the National Guard changed. The White House says it was not a Federal drill, but a State drill. The State of Hawaii reports it was a drill that got away. "Didn't pot just become legal in Hawaii? Thought so" tweeted one person on social media On Saturday morning. 1.2 million Hawaii residents received a message that said "Balliistic Missile Threat Inbound to Hawaii. Take Shelter. This is not a drill"....
Today is the 170th anniversary of the treaty of Cahuenga, which resulted in brief California independence and then US statehood the next year. Pico Blvd is named after the last Spanish governor of California, Andres Pico. Like nearly all the Californios, became an American citizen with full legal and voting rights. Pico later became a State Assemblyman and then a State Senator representing Los Angeles in the California State Legislature. The Treaty of Cahuenga, also called...
eHarmony, one of the largest and oldest dating websites in the United States, has agreed to change its website and sales practices to better protect California consumers. The company was founded by Christian clinical psychologist Neil Clark Warren and emphasizes religion in some of its advertising. It promotes enduring positive values, such as faith, long term marriages, love and family. The conservative internet company was dumb enough to open an office in liberal Santa...
Motor Scooters Run Amok in River City Paparazzi photographed Baywatch actress Charlotte McKinney riding one down Ocean Avenue near the Santa Monica Pier. Tourists ride them, and SMC students love them. Motorized scooters seem to be everywhere in Santa Monica lately. We all love them, and authorities need to regulate anything we love, right? Late last year, the Santa Monica City Attorney's has filed a criminal complaint against Bird Rides,which offers motorized scooters for...
The death of an 88 year old John Hautz at his home on 34th Street, is being investigated as a homicide. While the death of an 88 year old is not generally considered suspicious, this one is. "There are specific details that I can not disclose at this time," said Lt. Saul Rodriguez, SMPD's Public Information Officer. "The investigation is on-going. I can confirm there were several indicators and trauma to the decedent's body that led the investigation in that direction. The...
The death toll has been raised to 13, in the wake of severe mudflows in the affluent Santa Barbara town of Montecito. The town just 6 miles down the road from Santa Barbara toward Los Angeles, is the residence of numerous wealthy people including Oprah Winfrey and Ellen de Generes. The 101 freeway is reportedly closed. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Dept has confirmed 5 dead to ABC News. Earlier January 9, the SB Sheriff released the following press release: "The...
Rain began to fall in the Southern California region early Monday morning, the first significant rain since last December. Areas that burned just weeks ago were ordered evacuated. The National Weather service warned that a "Significant STORM system approaching, peaking tonight into Tuesday. Flash flooding and debris flows likely near recent burn areas. Major travel delays and flooded roads for Tuesday morning commute. #CAstorm #cawx #Larain". this of course on Twitter. It is...
On Monday January 8th at 6:53 a.m. The Santa Monica Fire Department received multiple 911 calls reporting a structure fire at 1435 26th Street in the City of Santa Monica. Firefighters arrived 5 minutes and 3 seconds later to find a 2-story multi-unit residence with an active kitchen fire in one of the units. Firefighters forced entry into the unit an aggressively fought back the flames, preventing the fire from spreading to adjacent units. During the search of the smoke...
SMFD has cleared a Structure Fire incident #18000255 in the 1000 Block of 14th, tweeted the Santa Monica Fire Department just after 11 pm Friday Night. The fire caused first responders to divert traffic from the area for about an hour. There were no reports of injuries. The Santa Monica Fire Department (SMFD) is the primary fire and medical response agency for the city of Santa Monica, California. It is responsible for protecting approximately 92,000 residents spread out...
The Santa Monica Pier is the symbol of the City. However, the bridge we have all walked down to get to the 100 year old wooden structure from Ocean Avenue has been ruled seismically unsafe and is slated to be replaced by two modern bridges. The 1939 era bridge is also regarded as unsafe because it is crowded, and mixes pedestrians with over 3600 automobiles on a summer day. The 1980's era divide between men and machines (it's called a "K Rail") just doesn't accommodate modern...
In contrast to the rest of the country, local weather was a balmy 53 degrees Farenheit in Santa Monica Sunday night as residents and visitors welcomed 2018. Santa Monica had a mostly quiet New Years Eve 2017-2018. Some say that on evenings such as New Years Eve, Uber, Lyft and other ridesharing apps have transformed LA, since people are able to stay out late and drink, then return safely and legally home. The SMPD tweeted: "Whether it is drugs or alcohol, if someone is...
Reports that this year's flu vaccine is not effective against the strain that's circulating most widely: Type A, subtype H3N2. H3N2 "tends to be the strain of virus that most impacts the elderly, that causes the most complications, and up until this point the vaccine results have been quite disappointing," said Dr. Randy Bergen, clinical lead for Kaiser Permanente's flu vaccination program in Northern California. "Those things make us concerned that we're going to have a lot...
Just the name of the case tells you we have a problem: Linchpins of Liberty, et al, v. United States of America. For anyone who thought the United States was on the side of liberty, not fighting against it in court, the IRS targeting of groups with "liberty" in their name was a disquieting thing. And it wasn't just liberty in the crosshairs. "Patriots," "Tea Party" and "political-sounding" names also were singled out for extra scrutiny, which included demands for the names...
No, this isn't fake news. The CEO and founder of Hawthorne based SpaceX rocket company, plans to use the maiden voyage of the Falcon Heavy Lift rocket to take his Tesla Roadster to Mars. Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is planned to be sent to a heliocentric Mars transfer orbit. Falcon Heavy is a reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle being designed and manufactured by SpaceX. The Falcon Heavy (previously known as the Falcon 9 Heavy) is a variant of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle...
It has been a year for the record books! While a Santa Monica Observer Intern goes to Washington and writes speeches for a Republican president, 3 of 7 members of the SMMUSD Board end up under investigation for conflict of interest. In no particular order, here our our top ten stories of 2017: 1. DISTRICTING LAWSUIT - The City has spent several million $ already and plans to keep fighting a losing battle 2. SMRR supposed to mean Santa Monicans for Renters Rights but has...
The United States District Court, Central District of California has dismissed a case challenging the Consent Decree between the City of Santa Monica and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the immediate shortening of the runway at Santa Monica Airport (SMO) and the closure of the airport after 2028. Plaintiffs Kate Scott and James Babinski had argued that the City failed to follow certain state law requirements when it entered the Consent Decree. In October 2017,...
A SpaceX rocket taking off from Vandenburg AFB Friday evening caused millions of residents of the Southwest alll the way to Arizona, to wonder if they were seeing a UFO. Or a North Korean Rocket. I thought it was a meteor, personally. But no, it was a Falcon 9 rocket streaking across the night sky while excited onlookers snapped photos and recorded video. At first the mysterious white light appeared during the evening rush hour, sparking questions and speculation from the many...
3/19: Lab tests were unable to determine a cause of death for P-41, a mountain lion whose movements in the Verdugo Mountains were captured in beautiful photographs by citizen scientists, National Park Service officials said. But the lab results from the state Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory did show the cougar suffered from a common issue among big cats in California's wildlife-urban interface: poisoning. "The lab found both first- and second-generation...
As bitcoin futures began to trade Sunday at 6 pm EST, some predicted more stability in the volatile cryptocurrency. That theory appears to be correct an hour and a half into trading. As bitcoin itself moved up to about $14,900, XBT, the bitcoin future, traded somewhat higher for the January 2018 contract. XBT18 traded at $15,350. Meaning that traders saw it moving at least 3 % higher by next month. The alternative theory is that futures will actually cause Bitcoin to trade...
