Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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3/26: Today, at approximately 12:47 PM, Santa Monica Fire Department Paramedics, were called to the Santa Monica Beach, north of the pier, for a possible drowning. On scene, Santa Monica Firefighters worked with Los Angeles County Fire Department Life Guards to rescue one juvenile, who was transported to Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center in critical condition. Ultimately, numerous Life Guard Swimmers, 1 Life Guard boat, 1 County Fire Department Helicopter, Santa Monica Police,...
Belgian police have announced that they have charged three men for terrorist offenses Saturday, including a man notorious as the "man in the hat" shown on surveillance video at Brussels Airport minutes before Tuesday's attacks. Belgian prosecutors confirmed that they have charged a man identified as "Faycal C." for "involvement in a terrorist group, terrorist murder and attempted terrorist murder." Belgian state TV and the newspaper Le Soir ("The Evening"), identified the...
A knife reportedly found at the O.J. Simpson's former estate is not connected to the one-time football star's infamous 1994 murder case, Los Angeles police confirmed Friday. Forensic testing concluded that the small buck knife was unrelated to the grisly deaths of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, the Los Angeles Times reported. The strange blade, allegedly found when Simpson's Brentwood manse was being leveled in 1998 and kept as a...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California legislators and labor unions on Saturday reached a tentative agreement that will take the state's minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour, a state senator said, a move that would make for the largest statewide minimum in the nation by far. Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who stressed that the deal was not yet finalized, told The Associated Press the proposal would go before the Legislature as part of his minimum-wage bill that stalled last...
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea says it has successfully conducted an engine test of a new intercontinental ballistic rocket it claims will strengthen its ability to stage nuclear strikes on the United States. The North's official Korean Central News Agency released the news Saturday. The move, if true, would be a big step forward for the North's nuclear weapons program. But South Korean officials still say North Korea doesn't yet have a reliable intercontinental ballistic m...
The Airport cleared parked planes from the Southeast six acres of the airport, allegedly for a 12-acre expansion of Santa Monica Airport Park. This is on the part of the airport in Los Angeles, i.e. the east part of the airport, which is not deed restricted for aviation. In a statement, Nelson Hernandez, Senior Advisor to the City Manager for Santa Monica Airport Affairs said: "I am glad to report the aircraft have been removed from the parcel. Some aircraft have been...
MALIBU, CA - A man who was involved in a solo SUV crash on Malibu Canyon Road north of Pacific Coast Highway was struck by a bus after getting out of the vehicle, which was left dangling on the edge of the road, authorities said. The crash was reported about 4:40 p.m. Saturday south of the tunnel on Malibu Canyon Road north of PCH, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Supervising Dispatcher Cheryl Sims. A broadcast report showed an SUV with its front end through a...
Date and Time of Occurrence: Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 5: 32 p.m. Location: 1300 block of 59th Street, unincorporated Los Angeles Victim(s): Male adult Suspect(s): Two males Unit: LASD Homicide – Lieutenant Coleman Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide detectives are responding to the 1300 block of 59th Street, unincorporated Los Angeles, to investigate the shooting death of a man. The victim was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The i...
A Magnitude 2.6 earthquake was felt by residents in the South Bay Sunday evening, around 10:44 PM. The US Geological survey said the epicenter was in the sea, about 3 miles west of Huntington Beach and 4 miles from Seal Beach. The small tremor caused no apparent damage or injuries. Separately, A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Mecico's Baja California, the United States Geological Survey reported. The earthquake was measured by USGS in the Gulf of California, 69 miles...
North Korea released a dramatic propaganda video Saturday (on youtube of all places), called "Last Chance" that depicts a nuclear strike on Washington, complete with animation of a missile slamming into the earth near the Lincoln Memorial. The four-minute video, backed by a hyper musical score reminiscent of TV Westerns of the 1960s, includes a mushroom cloud and an American flag going up in flames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbOYRLlhIP4 It was posted to the YouTube...
Who needs you anyway, Apple? That's what the Justice Department said Monday -- it has successfully accessed data stored on the iPhone that belonged to the San Bernardino gunman without Apple's assistance. The DOJ also said they would ask the District Court to vacate it's Motion to Compel, and dismiss its Federal case against Apple, Inc. The DOJ says the order is no longer necessary, which not only is a raspberry at Apple, but also calls into question its encryption generally...
Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski turned himself in to Jupiter police Tuesday after being charged with assaulting a reporter at a campaign event earlier this month, according to the Jupiter Police Department. Michelle Fields, a reporter for Breitbart, filed charges alleging that Lewandowski pulled her arm while she attempted to ask Trump a question at an event at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. Lewandowski has been charged with misdemeanor battery...
Despite the best efforts of fire fighters, paramedics, LA County Lifeguards, and the hospital staff; a girl who was taken from the water drowning north of the Santa Monica pier Saturday, has died. It appears that she died at the hospital, of her injuries. The SMFD refuses to release any information or confirm her death, due to "privacy laws" and the victims age. Below is the Department's press release from 3/26. It does hint that hypothermia was the cause of the female swimmer...
In the wake of the recent Brussels airport and subway bombings, 83 student musicians, 11 parents and 3 teachers have been informed that the Santa Monica School District has cancelled their European tour this week. In an email to district officials and teachers, SMMUSD Superintendent Sandra Lyons stated that she and others, had been monitoring safety considerations in Europe since the November Paris massacre. She and SamoHi principal Eva Mayoral sent an email to parents Tuesday...
4/24: Hillary Clinton will speak at fundraisers in Santa Monica and Hollywood for her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton will first attend an event called a "Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton" at the Santa Monica home of Julia Franz and Chris Silbermann. Silbermann is a co-founder of the talent agency ICM Partners, while his wife Franz has produced such television series as "State of Affairs," "Men at Work" and "Made in Jersey." Thursday...
The Airport's land grant is deed restricted to aviation into perpetuity, and the City Council knows it. Yet residents are demanding that the City Council do something to close the 100 year old airfield to aviation. When irresistible force meets immovable object, and the City of Santa Monica is involved, strange legislation results. On Tuesday the Council adopted a new leasing policy that some 600 tenants and subtenants must protect the health, safety and environment of the nei...
Residocracy, a group known mostly for snarky remarks on their Facebook page, held a Rally and Kickoff for the LUVE Ballot Initiative Petition signature-gathering campaign. LUVE's supporters say the it will require voter approval for major developments, and for Developer Agreements. The City of Santa Monica is famous for signing Developer agreements that promise parks, schools, funding for programs, low income housing, even ice skating rinks-and then the agreements are...
The New York Times reports that Zika virus has begun to spread across Puerto Rico, now the United States' front line in the epidemic. Zika is asymptomatic for the great majority of people. However, for pregnant women, it is a disaster because it can cause an infant to be born with a small head and brain (in medial terms, "microcephaly"). Zika virus has also occasionally caused paralysis in adults. (It should be noted that linkages of Zika to microcephaly and paralysis are...
– On Tuesday, February 23, the Santa Monica City Council announced Denise Anderson-Warren as the City's new City Clerk. A 21-year veteran of the City Clerk's Office, Anderson-Warren brings vast knowledge of the department to her new role. She has served as Assistant City Clerk for the past five years. "Denise is uniquely poised to run the City Clerk's Office with her depth of experience managing elections and public records," said Mayor Tony Vazquez. "She is widely r...
Three days of formal mourning for American former first lady Nancy Reagan began with a private service in Santa Monica at the Little Chapel, before her coffin was taken in a police-escorted motorcade along an empty freeway for a public viewing at the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi valley, California, 40 miles north. Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, greeted family members and close friends upon arrival at the Santa Monica mortuary, which held a 20-m...
Mayor Kevin McKeown, representing Santa Monica in San Francisco at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, today announced that he has joined the Mayors’ National Climate Action Agenda. McKeown thereby joins with Mayors across the country in calling on President Obama to fight for the strongest possible climate agreement at the upcoming 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, and for federal action to establish binding national greenhouse gas emissions reductions i...
Don't miss the FREE spectacular fireworks and entertainment of "Celebrate America" – Santa Monica College's popular star-spangled salute to our nation's independence – to be held Saturday, June 27. The celebration – the only one of its kind in Santa Monica – will feature a dazzling fireworks show by Rialto-based Pyro Spectaculars. Entertainment includes the popular Derek Bordeaux Group playing a mix of Motown classics, Jazz, R&B, and Blues standards, with Eddie Jauregu...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Wednesday, June 17, 2015) –Southern California beach-goers heading to the shore this summer have an unusual force to thank in part for improved water quality – historic drought. With record low rainfall reducing the amount of polluted runoff funneled into our seas, water quality improved yet again at Los Angeles County beaches last year, according to Heal the Bay's 25th annual Beach Report Card, which the environmental group released today. Heal the Bay...
A transient man was shot to death in Venice by Los Angeles police responding to a report of someone “disturbing the peace.” The man, identified as Brendon Glenn, was described as a black male in his mid-to-late 20s. The officer who shot the suspect is also black, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. The shooting occurred near Pacific and Winward avenues around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday just a block or so away from the beach. Two LAPD officers responded to the scene after people called police saying a man was causing a disturbance out...
As cities across Southern California wrestle with how best to regulate the booming short-term rental industry, Santa Monica is poised to take the hardest line yet. The SM City Council is considering a measure that would ban most of the vacation rentals listed on Airbnb and websites like it, and set up strict new regulations for those who want to rent out space in their homes. The use of short-term rentals has exploded in recent years, especially in tourist-friendly spots such...
