Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Get SM Election Night Results Live Election Day is on November 4 and real-time election results will be coming in all night long at smvote.org. All Santa Monica races and ballot measure returns are consolidated on one web page to make it easy for Santa Monica residents to track the results. The semifinal official results will come from the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office. The page will go live once the first round, usually absentee ballot results, is received shortly after 8 p.m. The results w...
On October 28, the Santa Monica City Council advanced the City’s call for immediate water conservation and dedicated an additional $400,000 towards incentive and conservation programs. “We need to move quickly and go further. Every dollar invested today that results in lasting conservation is a dollar we’re investing in our long-term water sufficiency.”, Mayor Pro Tem Terry O’Day. In response to the statewide drought, the Council called on Santa Monica residents, visitors, businesses and their employees to take immediate...
Complaints AGainst O’Connor Referred to DA Santa Monica’s City Attorney has referred the Transparency Project’s detailed 31 Complaints, along with over 70 exhibits, against Mayor Pam O’Connor--which allege repeated violations of the Oaks Initiative for illegally accepting campaign contributions from developers after voting to approve their projects--to the Public Integrity Division of the LA District Attorney’s Office. City Attorney Marsha Moutrie stated that because she “report[s] directly to the City Council (of whi...
Theodore Greenberg lawsuit against the Art Institute of Los Angeles will proceed to trial, Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg ruled Thursday. Greenberg alleges that he was sexually harassed by Mark Lowentrout, a supervisor at the school’s Santa Monica campus. In his complaint, Greenberg alleges that on December of 2011 he was employed as a teacher at the Art Institute, with Lowentrout as his supervisor. Greenberg was originally hired by the Art Institute in D...
Theodore Greenberg lawsuit against the Art Institute of Los Angeles will proceed to trial, Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg ruled Thursday. Greenberg alleges that he was sexually harassed by Mark Lowentrout, a supervisor at the school’s Santa Monica campus. In his complaint, Greenberg alleges that on December of 2011 he was employed as a teacher at the Art Institute, with Lowentrout as his supervisor. Greenberg was originally hired by the Art Institute in D...
Homeless Man Breaks Into Van Santa Monica police arrested a homeless man whom they allege was breaking into a van today. Just after 10 PM, the SMPD sent officers in respondse to a report of vehicle burglary in progress in the 2200 block of Third Street. The reporting party had witnessed the suspect break into a white van parket on the street. The reporting party stayed on the phone while the officers responded and were able to confirm with dispatch that the officers had arrived at the scene and were investigating. The officer...
Los Angeles schools Superintendent John Deasy resigned as head of the nation’s second-largest school system after failing to overcome technological problems, clashing with the teachers union and losing allies on the school board. The resignation was announced Thursday in a joint statement by Deasy and the board. A separate statement said former Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines would return to head the school system for the third time starting Oct. 20 while officials search for a successor. Deasy, 53, led the district for 3 1...
Santa Monica became the latest city to strictly regulate where e-cigarettes can be smoked, banning their use in most public places. On Tuesday, the City Council voted unanimously to enact tough restrictions on the devices, essentially treating them like regular cigarettes. Santa Monica joins other cities that passed similar measures earlier this year, including Los Angeles, Long Beach and Beverly Hills. The decision came after months of discussion about the safety of e-cigarettes for former smokers and others. Although...
From an article by Ryan Gierach, edited by Alyssa Erdley According to reporter Ryan Gierach of WeHoNews.com, a poll released by the Sandra Fluke campaign for State Senate seat 26, which claimed a 7-point lead over her opponent, SM School Board member Ben Allen, was not a legitimate poll, but a "push poll," one used to affect election outcome, rather than to gauge public opinion. The poll, conducted by Garin Hart Yang Research Group also claimed Fluke commanded an 18-point...
President Obama came to a shared workspace for tech entrepreneurs Thursday to tout the importance of "start-up culture" and the millennial generation, arguing that they were best poised to advance American innovation - but needed the government's help. The president conducted a brief tour of a tech incubator, Cross Campus, where he chatted with the founders of three ventures working there. One provides a constant stream of photos from professional photojournalists; a second...
City TV Launches Election Website CityTV and the League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Education Fund (LWVSMEF) have launched their first round of election programming on-line and on television. “On the Record” features candidate statements from City Council, School Board, College Board and Rent Control Board Candidates. City Council Candidates also have additional short videos, where the candidates have an opportunity to speak briefly on issues including transportation, local ballot measures, and more. In addition, “Me...
A local group has accused Mayor Pam O’Connor of repeatedly violating both State and local law, by taking campaign contributions from developers after voting to approve their massive projects. It says that she could be liable both for civil, even criminal penalties, under the Santa Monica Municipal Code’s political funding laws. The Santa Monica Transparency Project submitted a complaint to news organizations, including the Observer, and also to the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office last week. In the complaint, SMTP alleg...
One suspect, 48-year-old Jami Lynn Burrows, was arrested about 9 a.m. Sept. 17 by detectives from the LAPD’s West Los Angeles Division, according to L.A. County Jail records. Burrows, a former landscaper, is accused of stealing credit cards from a number of houses in Pacific Palisades and Malibu and was allegedly caught on video tape inside a store trying to use the stolen cards, according to the LAPD. The day Burrows was jailed, detectives served a search warrant at her home and allegedly recovered stolen property that i...
SM Apartment Building Trades at Peak Price A 60-unit apartment complex just five blocks from the beach in Santa Monica sold recently for $26.5 million, or nearly $442,000 a unit. Local multifamily landlords Thomas Yu and May Ling Yu of MLT Properties purchased the low-rise property at 3111 Fourth St. from a joint venture of M West Holdings of Sherman Oaks and GreenOak Real Estate of New York. Though apartment buildings with 20 or fewer units routinely sell for more than $440,000 a unit in the beachside city, it’s rarer for la...
Traffic lanes on the Sunset Strip are expected to be fully reopened Monday after a water main rupture flooded the streets of the famous thoroughfare known for its nightclubs and boutiques. The break occurred Friday afternoon near Queens Road, sending 9,600 gallons of water spewing per minute, said LADWP spokeswoman Kim Hughes. Water to the main was shut off as crews repaired the 36-inch steel pipe -- installed in 1916 and cement-lined in 1957. Traffic was closed between La Cienega and Crescent Heights Boulevards. Hughes...
A sleeping beachgoer run over by a truck allegedly driven by a Long Beach city maintenance worker is suing the city and the driver. Jonathan Soto filed the negligence suit Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the city of Long Beach and driver Stanley Willie Delaney, who was picking up trash for the city Department of Parks, Recreation & Marine. The suit seeks unspecified damages. The Long Beach City Attorney’s office had not yet received and filed the lawsuit as of late Thursday morning. According to the c...
The parents of a young woman killed in the crash of a small plane at Santa Monica Airport a year ago today are suing the heirs of the pilot of the aircraft, the aircraft’s manufacturer and three government entities. Gary and Carole Winkler of Irvine, the father and mother of Lauren Winkler, filed the wrongful death suit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court against the estate of Mark Benjamin, the cities of Santa Monica and Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and Cessna Aircraft Co, maker of the 525A Citation that crashed. The s...
Police are investigating whether a man was run over by a vehicle Sunday on Santa Monica State Beach, which would be the second such incident in less than a week. Police were called about 6:30 a.m. after a resident heard the man screaming for help in the 1400 block of Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica Police Sgt. Rudy Flores said. The man, described as being in his 20s, told police he was hit by a vehicle, but could not say where it happened, Flores added. The extent of his...
Brushfire in SM on Tuesday A small brush fire briefly closed all westbound lanes of the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica on Tuesday. The fire was reported about 1:30 p.m. near the Annenberg Community Beach House on Pacific Coast Highway, prompting authorities to close the westbound 10 Freeway at Lincoln Boulevard to free up access for first responders, according to the California Highway Patrol. Traffic was temporarily diverted off the freeway and around the fire until the flames were extinguished a short time later. The CHP...
Hawthorne Mayor Chris Brown, evicted from his apartment for not paying rent for at least three months, has been ordered by a judge to reimburse his landlord thousands of dollars. The judge in Santa Monica Superior Court ruled in favor of the owner of the 15-unit building in the 13700 block of Cordary Avenue during a Tuesday morning hearing that Brown did not attend. Brown, who was elected last November to his first political office, said in an interview this week that he stopped paying rent in May because the town house he...
Two of America’s biggest health insurance companies allegedly misrepresented their physician and hospital networks in order to boost sales during the Affordable Care Act’s “open enrollment period”, a consumer advocacy group said Thursday. KNX 1070’s Jon Baird reports attorneys for Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog filed two separate lawsuits in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Cigna and Blue Shield of California in what the group calls a “bait and switch” scheme that left patients with a stack of medical bills and...
The vaccination rates in some wealthier areas of Los Angeles are as low as those in developing countries -- such as Chad and South Sudan -- and could be contributing to disease outbreaks in the region, according to an investigation by the Hollywood Reporter (Baum, Hollywood Reporter, 9/10). California parents can opt out of vaccinating their children by filing a personal belief exemption. In one of the wealthier regions in the Los Angeles area -- which includes Beverly Hills, Malibu, Marina del Rey, Santa Monica and West...
A man in his 40s was pronounced dead this morning after being found unresponsive on a Metro bus in Santa Monica, but the fatality appeared to be from natural causes. The man was found when the bus reached the end of its route at Ocean Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard about 4:30 a.m., sheriff’s Transit Services Bureau spokesman Ramon Montenegro said. Firefighters responded and pronounced the man dead at 5:17 a.m., he said. The death appeared to be from natural causes, but the cause will be determined by the coroner’s off...
A popular restaurant is on a 30-month probation for operating like a nightclub, officials said. Earlier this month, the owners of Brick and Mortar pleaded no contest to 14 misdemeanor counts of violating city permit laws and will pay roughly $7,000 in restitution to the city, not including thousands more in court fines. Located on the city’s bustling Main Street, Brick and Mortar is known not just as a restaurant, but also as a spot to throw a few back – sans dinner. But that’s not allowed if you don’t have the proper...
As Eileen Brown and her dog stand on a bluff at Santa Monica’s Palisades Park and survey endless miles of sparkling blue ocean, clear skies and shimmering sandy beaches, she ponders how life could possibly get any better in this corner of paradise. “Really, it seems just about perfect,” the Los Angeles woman concludes. There’s a picturesque pier off in the distance with an old-fashioned merry-go-round that stands nearly side-by-side with the world’s first solar-powered Ferris wheel. The sun is shining brightly, the temperatu...
