Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Sorted by date Results 751 - 775 of 3379
You may have noticed SUV's with the Motional and Uber logos driving up and down Washington Avenue North of Wilshire in Santa Monica. They are also to be found elsewhere in SM, as is their competitor, Google owned WAYMO. Automated driving system development company Motional is expanding its operations in California, and already moves passengers on the Las Vegas strip. They are now an option on the Strip when you order Uber. This according to two testing supervisors, Kenly and...
Done in by free lunches for the employees of a large social media company, a salad bar extraordinaire has closed its doors. Not to worry, though, as the restaurant will continue serving customers at its 2450 Colorado Avenue location. Mrs. Winston's Green Grocer opened its location on Ocean Park Blvd in 2009. Owner Eddy Winston named it in honor of his mom, Mrs. Winston. It closed permanently this month. Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. is now the largest tenant in this...
Updated: From Capt. Patrick Nulty, SMFD PIO: "At approximately 4:06 p.m. yesterday, Santa Monica Fire responded to 395 Santa Monica Place, adjacent to the Nordstrom for a report of a “Fall”. Upon arrival, paramedics discovered two patients, a male in his 50’s had fallen or jumped from the 3rd floor level inside the Santa Monica Mall, and landed on a female in her 70’s on the ground level." "The male was treated and transported to a local trauma center and was alive upon ar...
11: A ceiling collapse on the street in front of a Japanese restaurant in the mall at the corner of Lincoln Blvd and Ocean Park Blvd, damaged the restaurant on Saturday. Six engine companies responded to the situation. Firefighters taped off the block and examined the damage. "How did they have a fire in the kitchen of a sushi restaurant? wondered one onlooker. I mean, isn't sushi like raw fish? " The bystander was correct: There was no fire. The ceiling collapse apparently...
Donald Trump has been indicted in New York, over an alleged "hush money" payment made to the adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. The New York Times broke the story on Thursday, March 30th 2023 Trump wants to be handcuffed for court appearance in Stormy Daniels case, sources say. The paper cited four people with knowledge of the matter. No former US president has ever been criminally indicted. The news is set to shake the race for the Republican...
A 28 year old woman who considered herself transgender, shot up a private Christian school called "Covenant Christian School" in Nashville, Tennessee Monday morning, 3/27. Officers engaged and killed the shooter at the Covenant School, Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said. The shooter was a 28-year-old Nashville woman, police said. Females constitute less than 1% of all mass shooters, experts said. Three children and two adults were taken to Monroe Carell Jr....
Santa Monica Police Dept. Harbor Guards have declared an Ocean emergency harbor office in their work area Friday 3.27. They reported that there was one person in the water. Harbor guards (officially the Harbor Patrol) were deploying into the water at 3:30 pm to conduct an active water rescue. They recovered the patient who was reportedly unconscious. Using an automated CPR device, they're loaded the patient into an ambulance, where he or she was sent to UCLA hospital,...
Santa Monica Police apparently handled three different assaults in Santa Monica on Sunday, March 19th. The first was at a known draw for crime, the 7/11 on Wilshire and 7th Street. An assault was reported at 630 Wilshire Blvd. at the 7/11 convenience store. SMPD were also on scene traumatic injury Sunday afternoon at 300 Broadway. Another assault occurred on Sunday afternoon at 2720 Main Street in the Ocean Park neighborhood. This is the site of the Victorian clubhouse. An...
The Santa Monica Fire Department recovered the body of an apparently homeless man at Mary Hotchkiss Park near 4th and Strand. The SMFD confirmed the person was dead on arrival . In a separate incident, someone deployed pepper spray in the alley at 620 Santa Monica Blvd, after one person punched another in the face. One person was pepper sprayed, and one was punched in the face. Unknown if the pepper spray was from the SMPD or suspect. Assault confirmed, both Assailant and...
The 33rd annual running of the Los Angeles Marathon is set for Sunday morning. Weather should be overcast but dry, which is perfect weather for a marathon. 30,000 participants will compete in over 20 divisions. The Los Angeles Marathon (formerly known as the City of Los Angeles Marathon) is an annual running event typically held each spring in Los Angeles, California, since 1986. The marathon was inspired by the success of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games hosted in Los Angeles,...
In an expected move, Silicon Valley Bank's former parent company SVB Financial Group filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. Last Friday Silicon Valley Bank went into FDIC receivership after it was unable to produce cash for its depositors. The Biden Regime bailed out SVC depositors over the $250,000 FDIC insured threshold. Meanwhile, it was revealed that California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) failed to disclose he was a client of Silicon Valley Bank as he lobbied...
This week, the biggest local story is that the County of Los Angeles' needle exchange program for addicts operates in several Santa Monica parks. These include Tongva Park, Palisades Park and Reed Park, among other locations. Giving needles to addicts so they can shoot heroin and other drugs seems inconsistent with family life. So we asked Councilmember Phil Brock to comment on the issue. "We have known about this program since November," said Brock, a former Parks and Recreat...
10: Work crews could be seen in Santa Monica 90402 cutting up trees that fell in the latest of a series of storms. In one case they smashed a 25 year old BMW. "Claim Filed," a sign said in the window of the smashed vehicle. The 2023 series of storms is at least a one in 25 year event. Rain totals for Los Angeles are above 24 inches. In a typical year, the County receives about 14.5 inches of rain. There have been 11 "atmospheric river" rainstorms so far this year, events...
14: A structure fire on Wednesday evening damaged a house in the 1300 block of Oak Street. The SMFD responded within minutes, and brought the blaze under control. One patient was transported. The fire occurred after the conclusion of a two day rainstorm that dropped 2 inches of rain today. One residence was reportedly displaced by the fire....
14: Dispatchers Wednesday morning received a report of debris in the middle of PCH. The report came on 3/15/23, just before 1 am. The debris may have accompanied a landslide or mudslide from the cliffs below Palisades Park. Such slides are rare in Santa Monica but do happen, and authorities have taken steps to stabilize the cliffs. The call to 911 dispatch came in the middle of a 2 inches of rain fell on Santa Monica, about midway through a 24 hour per...
10: A structure fire damaged a motel on the corner of 11th and Pico Blvd in Santa Monica. The Santa Monica Fire Dept. extinguished the fire at the 1970's era motel fire at around 3 pm PST. SMFD's PIO, Patrick Nulty, said that they began receiving multiple 911 calls about the fire at about 12:38 p.m. Saturday. "Police and Fire Department resources quickly responded and arrived to find a well-developed fire consuming one unit of the single-story motel. Firefighters...
IHG Hotels and Resorts (IHG), aka Regent Hotel Chain has announced that it will take over operation of the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, which suddenly closed in February. The flowery press release from the chain is below. InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), marketed as IHG Hotels & Resorts, is a British multinational hospitality company headquartered in Windsor, England, says Wikipedia. IHG is listed on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange. It is also...
Santa Monica has many hundreds of hotel rooms for dogs. Now it has a hotel for pets, too. "With dogs and cats living in the majority of Santa Monica homes, Wag Hotels Santa Monica is a welcome addition to this pet-loving community, says WAG in a press release. "It has over 4,000 square feet of supervised outdoor play yards, a range of private rooms and suites, a retail boutique stocked with treats, toys and pet couture, and a luxurious grooming salon - that's a lot to wag...
Director BARBARA FERRER, Ph.D., and her 4th in command at the County of Los Angeles Public Health, Gary Tsai. M.D., are at it again, this time in Santa Monica. The City has acknowledged that without the knowledge of its Police Department, residents and businesses, it has funded and allowed over a year for the County and the Venice Family Clinic to administer a clandestine needle and synthetic drug distribution program in one of the City's largest parks (Reed Park), adjacent...
We are receiving reports that the body of a deceased person has been found in Pacific Palisades after the Los Angeles Fire Department performed a rescue operation. The deceased person may have been a hiker. Four engine companies were said to be on scene. This is breaking news, as of 3 pm on Saturday, March 4, 2023....
13: Shots were fired on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade Sunday night, Police dispatchers said. Witnesses heard 2 gunshots The suspect was described as a White male wearing all black, with a black baseball cap, on the short side. SMPD was said to be contacting a possible subject at the Sketchers Shoe Store on the Promenade. Later, two people were said to have been detained....
9: The Santa Monica Fire Department was investigating an incident where an automobile broke the front window of the Baskin Robbins ice cream store located at 2614 Pico Blvd. This on Wednesday evening in Santa Monica's Pico neighborhood. The store was reportedly open with customers inside, but no one was injured in the incident. Baskin-Robbins is an American multinational chain of ice cream and cake speciality shops owned by Inspire Brands. Baskin-Robbins was founded in...
Tickets are on Sale NOW for Samohi Theatre's production of The Drowsy Chaperone. Be transported by a tale of romance with a zany cast of characters, including dancing gangsters, huge musical numbers, mistaken identity, and vaudeville style gags all set in the roaring 20's. Purchase your reserved seat tickets now at samohitheatre.org. Performances in Barnum Hall on February 24, 25, March 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. and February 26 and March 5 at 3 p.m. Hailed as "the Perfect Broadway...
9: I'm dreaming of a white Easter? Some saw flakes of snow fall from the Santa Monica sky on Wednesday. Some called it snow and others say it was a type of loose hail called Graupel. But there's no doubt that this was one of the coldest weeks in a generation in Santa Monica, and across the Westside. All over LA County, some residents saw light snowflakes drifting from the heavens and floating down in 40 degree temperatures. Downtown LA had 9 days in a row of sub 60...
13: Video has emerged of plastic bottles and other garbage floating into Santa Monica Bay as a result of this week's storm. Every kind of trash one can possibly imagine — from plastic bottles and cans to blankets, pillows and mattresses — has floated down creekbeds and storm drains in Los Angeles County. It ends up floating on the area’s beaches. Recent rains have of course, some positive effects too; the areas reservoirs are closer to full now. But the rain’s side ef...
