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On the Day of the Homeless Count: a Question for the Homeless Industrial Complex
Over the past two years eight lawsuits have been filed by clients and former employees against the City’s sole provider of homeless services, The People Concern. A current lawsuit by a former...
George Gascon of San Francisco Wants to be Your County District Attorney, but You Don't Want Him
George Gascon, a Havana-born former police officer, resigned his position as San Francisco District Attorney in October, at the same time announcing his intention to run for the same office in Los...
Target Coming to the Staples Store at 16th and Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica
The Staples on Wilshire Blvd will be replaced by a Target store, according to a liquor license application sign currently displayed in the front window of Staples. There is also a Target store that...
Annual Santa Monica Homeless Count Set for January 22, 2020
City Press Release On January 22, the City of Santa Monica will conduct its annual street-by-street count of people experiencing homeless. Santa Monica joins the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authorit...
LAX Becomes Home For the Homeless, as Prop 47 Takes It's Toll on the Nation's Busiest Airport
No one is sure when he arrived or where he is from. But the middle aged homeless man in Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, talks almost incessantly to an imaginary person. Early one morning...
Measure R Connects Citizen Oversight of the Sheriff and Inmate Release
Ballot Measure R, also known as Reform LA Jails, will be on the ballot this March. Somewhat confusingly, the measure tackles two disparate issues. The first issue is assuring that the Sheriff...
Story Corps Oral History Project Records on SM's Promenade
Slightly south of Wilshire Blvd on the Third Street Promenade sits a big silver van, with Story Corps scrawled in flowing red letters. A red metal desk sits near by. When I arrived yesterday Mia...
AB-5: California's Gig Economy Law Reveals Who Brokers Power in Sacramento
The short list of winners under California's gig economy law and the long list of exceptions to it act like a neon sign announcing who controls the power in this state. The winners are the government...
Trump Administration Acts to Protect Jews at UCLA Using Title VI
The Trump administration made it clear this week how they were going to act on the president's executive order that included Jews as a protected group under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The U.S....
Duty Free - Harry and Meghan Determined To Make A Royal Mint- A PR Disaster Bigger Than Prince Andrew's TV Appearance.
Prince Harry and former actress Meghan Markle - The Duchess of Sussex, announced yesterday they are taking their own path, a road less travelled by a leading Royal since Prince Edward and Wallis...
Sandmann Settles Litigation Against CNN for $750,000 in 2 Federal Defamation Actions
CNN settled with Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky high school student who had sued the news outlet for defamation. A CNN spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the claims had been settled. CNN paid Sandmann and...
Anti-War Demonstrations in LA and Santa Monica Call on US Congress to Avoid War with Iran
Hundreds of local residents took to the streets of Los Angeles and Santa Monica on Saturday Jan. 4, 2020, protesting the escalating threats from the Trump administration to attack 52 targets in Iran....
Firemen Extinguish Fire at 2634 6th Street, Santa Monica
On Thursday January 2nd, 2020 at 2:09 p.m. Public Safety Communications received a 9-1-1 call reporting a fire in a home at 2634 6th Street in the Ocean Park community of Santa Monica. Santa Monica...
From Earthquakes to Murders and elections, 2019 was one for the record books.
The news stories happening in Santa Monica this year ranged from the highly unusual to the highly typical. Here's our take on the year that was. The Unusual The Ridgecrest Earthquake A...
Hide the Guns and Churn the Butter: New Year, New Laws for California
2019 new laws going into effect today include AB5, the anti rideshare amendment. The bill attempts to create stricter rules around independent contractors. The intent is for Uber and Lyft drivers to p...
Airport Employee kills himself at Los Angeles international airport Tom Bradley terminal
A uniformed airport employee leapt from the third level of Tom Bradley international terminal, falling to his death three stories below. Police have described him as a 27-year-old male LAX employee....
Who Says Santa Monica has to build 9,000 Housing Units? An Unelected Group With No Real Power, That's Who
In November, news broke that the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) had declared Santa Monica must build 9,118 housing units before 2029, 69 percent of which have to be affordable....
Firemen Put Out Dumpster Fire That Scorches 3 Floors of the Huntley Hotel
The Santa Monica Fire Dept. reports that it saved a 20 story hotel, the Huntley Hotel, from becoming fully engulfed in flames on Sunday afternoon. The fire started in the trash bins behind the hotel,...
#SCOTUS Lets Stand Pro-Homeless Ruling Against Boise. But it's Not as Bad as They're All Saying
The U.S. Supreme Court on December 16 declined to take up a case regarding homeless outdoor sleeping. The Court's rejection of the case lets stand a Ninth Circuit ruling that governments cannot make...
Online Petition Demands Accountability in City Annual Assessments of Social Service Agencies
Santa Monica residents are circulating an online petition at Change.org, demanding that the City of Santa Monica perform annual assessments of its funding for social service agencies and programs....
Electrical Problems Cause 3 Green Shuttle Buses to Burn at LAX
Investigators say electrical problem sparked blaze that engufed three propane-powered buses Saturday night, December 20th. The fire began in the "LAXit" lot at Los Angeles international airport....
Trump Writes Letter to Pelosi On Evening of Impeachment Vote in the House of Representatives
One thing is certain: Trump joins a small club including Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, as the most hated US Presidents ever while in office. "Trumps letter to...
Allegedly Illegal Pot Dispensary "Grace" on Pico Blvd in West LA Subject to Raid, Arrests
The BCC, LAPD and Dept of Fish and Game and other agencies participated in the 2 pm Tuesday raid of a purportedly illegal marijuana clinic on Tuesday afternoon, December 10th. At least 20 officers...
City of Santa Monica Announces Settlement with AIRBNB in Civil Lawsuit
The City of Santa Monica just announced a settlement with AIRBNB. AIRBNB is a website and smart phone App that permits tenants to sublease their homes as temporary vacation rentals. Demand for...
District Attorney George Gascon: Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
Although I spent my high school years in a suburb of Los Angeles, I've called San Francisco my home for the last 19 years. In 2001, I embarked on my career of public service, joining the California...
