Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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On Tuesday, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved a 50,000-square-foot project that will cost $141 million, including finance costs. The excuse given for the extremely high cost ($2820/square foot) is that the building will be "sustainable" and be a candidate to win Green awards. $100 to $200 a foot are common figures for construction estimators. According to Constance Farrell, City Public Information Officer, the building will pay for itself in 30 years and...
• Proposed building "massing" overhangs the historic City Hall building on the south side as it will project all the way to the sidewalk and disturbs the historically significant streetscape view of City Hall from Main Street. The historic landmark significance of City Hall is being chipped away at bit by bit. A recent example was the removal of the City Hall entrance steps during the construction of Ken Genser Square. • Proposed plans to win the Living Building Challenge (LB...
Dear Friends and Neighbors, I am writing about my upcoming, January 24th, City Council appeal hearing of the $86 million that is about to be spent on an annex to the backside of the Santa Monica City Hall. The annex is officially being called the, "City Services Building." It is my opinion that this is an exorbitant amount of taxpayer money to be spent for only 50,000 square feet of space and 239 workers. Also, let's not forget that this $86 million will be financed with...
President Obama penned an emotional letter to the public, published Thursday, in which he thanks us for allowing him to serve as our president, and promises to be with us as American moves into the future. "I'll be right there with you every step of the way ... Yes, we can." These are words that so many Americans, most Americans, have been aching to hear. We miss you already, Mr. President. This is the full text of the Letter: It's a long-standing tradition for the sitting...
As President Obama passed the torch to President-elect Trump, The Harris Poll took a final look at America's feelings towards his time in office. For the first time since August 2009, just over half of Americans rate President Barack Obama positively. As his two-term Presidency comes to a close, 51% of adults say the President is doing an excellent or pretty good job overall. While Obama's positive ratings have been steadily climbing since March of 2016, this new rating is...
"Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done. Every four years...
BEFORE THE OATH OF OFFICE IS TAKEN Statement By Major Christian Organizations on President-Elect Trump's Policy Agenda and Political Appointments Washington, D.C., January 6, 2017-As our nation prepares for the Presidential Inauguration, we do so with the lasting residue of a divisive election season and an even more fractured past. Our faith teaches us to be ministers of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:11-21). That is why we urge President-Elect Donald Trump, who has said he...
Donald Trump is not the only member of the Trump organization who starts a new job on Friday. Ivanka Trump has stepped down from her post at the Trump Organization, the Christian Science Monitor reports, because she will have a quasi-First Lady role in her father's administration. She and her family have moved to DC's Kalorama district, the same neighborhood that hosts the Obamas and Jeff Bezos. Ivanka will fulfill traditional duties of presidential wives, while First Lady...
Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany will fill in the gap at her father's presidential inauguration, after several mainstream Hollywood acts passed on the opportunity to perform in front of 63,000,000 TV viewers. She will sing Nelly Furtado's hit song "I'm Like a Bird," says a source at Mark Burnett's production company. Producer of The Apprentice and Survivor, Burnett is producing the inauguration. It should surprise no one that Tiffany Ariana Trump, 23, an American internet...
The Center for Biological Diversity has given Utah Congressman Rob Bishop its annual Rubber Dodo award. The statue is awarded each year to the person or group who has most aggressively sought to destroy America's natural heritage or drive endangered species extinct. Bishop, a Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources. "Rob Bishop has fanatically pursued an extremist agenda to give away America's public lands and kill off its endangered species," said...
In a book published one month before the election, New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Nance not only identifies the hackers as Russian but digs deep into the biggest political scandal since Watergate. Donald Trump finally acquiesced on this topic in last week's press conference, saying they "probably" did. Nance's other claims include: 1. The entire Russian hacking was done specifically to elect Donald Trump as president. 2. Trump's advisors, including Paul Manafort,...
Metro will receive nearly $1.6 billion in Federal grants and loans to build the Purple Line Extension to Beverly Hills and Century City. The U.S. Department of Transportation is committing nearly $1.6 billion in new funding to the project. Most of it is grant money and $307 million in loans. "This section, which any Los Angeleno can tell you, is one of the most congested areas of Los Angeles, will be better prepared to handle more people and operate more efficiently," said...
The City Council has chosen Assistant City Attorney Joseph Lawrence to serve as Interim City Attorney after the retirement of Marsha Jones Moutrie last month. Joe has been with the City Attorney's Office since 1986. During his tenure, he has been involved in all of the City's most demanding legal issues. He led the legal effort that recovered nearly $400 million for water contamination. During his tenure the City Attorney's Office was recognized as the top state and local law...
Meryl Streep gave an intensely political speech tonight at the Golden Globe awards, where she received the Cecile B. Demille lifetime achievement award. Donald Trump dismissed her speech, noting that she introduced Hillary Clinton at the DNC. Trump denied mocking a disabled reporter; he noted that he had reversed what he had initially written about 9/11. "Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden...
As American's awoke to the 2017 Rose Parade in Pasadena and the "HOLLYWEED" sign decorating the Hollywood Hills, it was apparent to all that 2017 is the year Marijuana will be legalized. The President Elect, a self proclaimed bringer of change, has pretty much said so. Here's a list of ten reasons Donald Trump will legalize marijuana: 1. It's what he said he would do. "President-elect Donald Trump has publicly supported medicinal legalization of cannabis products and...
Americans would most like to be neighbors with the Obamas in 2017, according to the 10th annual Zillow® Celebrity Neighbor Survey. Popstar Justin Bieber was selected as the least desirable neighbor, earning the most "worst neighbor" votes in survey history, breaking his own record from 2014. The annual Zillow survey asks U.S. adults which celebrities they would most like to have as a neighbor, and with whom they wouldn't want to share a fence. Most Desirable Neighbors in 2...
Fake news (some prefer fictional news and information), was much discussed in 2016. Teenagers in towns across Macedonia competed for hits with each other and with mainstream US Media, posting fake story after fake story. Seriously, fake news became a cottage industry in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. That's the country's official name. No, really. Some feel fake news propelled the election of Donald Trump. Personally I think the Dems did themselves in, but I...
In a rather amazing editorial, an opinion piece in the New York Times has called on the Democratic party to not cooperate in the appointment of Donald Trump as President. "Where is the Democratic party?" ask writers Dahlia Lithwick and David S. Cohen, as Trump appoints Cabinet members who want to dismantle the departments they will head. Why aren't Democratic leaders making more of Trump's refusal to attend daily Intelligence briefings, of Russian interference in the...
Congresswoman Katherine Clark has introduced legislation to ensure that U.S. Presidents are required to resolve any conflicts of interest with regard to financial interests and official responsibilities. Current law prohibits federal office holders from engaging in government business when they stand to gain profit. The President and Vice President are currently exempt from this statute. Clark's Presidential Accountability Act removes this exemption and requires the President...
At its special meeting Tuesday, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously voted to select Ted Winterer as Santa Monica's next mayor and Gleam Davis as mayor pro tempore. "This is a tremendous honor and I am humbled and thrilled to serve as your mayor," said Mayor Ted Winterer. "I look forward to the work ahead with Mayor Pro Tem Davis and to the challenges and successes we are sure to see to keep Santa Monica the special place that it is." Mayor Ted Winterer is a 25-year...
Update 12/18: A group of about 80 electors (including one Republican) signed on to a letter to National Intelligence Director James Clapper asking for a briefing on the role Russian hacks may have played in the election before the vote. (That request, supported by Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta, will not be granted, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said.) Hillary Clinton's top political adviser John Podesta said the campaign is supporting an...
The US Intelligence community agrees that the Russians interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, in order to support Donald Trump and defeat Hillary Clinton. No one so far is calling for a "do over," or for the results of the election to be invalidated. But a bipartisan US Senate committee is calling for hearings. The bipartisan effort lead by McCain (R-AZ), Lindsay Gram (R-SC). "It's clear the Russians interfered. Whether they interfered to the degree that they wanted...
The following resolution has been passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, introduced by Board President London Breed, in response to the election of Donald Trump: WHEREAS, On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That no matter the threats made by President-elect Trump, San Francisco will remain a Sanctuary City. We will not turn our back on the men and women from other countries...
The outgoing president will sign an executive order reversing President Richard Nixon's 1970 order, listing Marijuana as a Schedule One Drug, forbidden at all times. This is said to have been a jab at 1960's "Hippy Culture." President Barack Obama, who wrote of experimenting with marijuana as a young man, will legalize marijuana on his way out of office. He will make pot a Class II drug, legal under Federal law with a doctors prescription. States will be able to continue to...
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, by majority vote, issued an official statement regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline. The statement may be viewed below. Commission Chair Martin R. Castro stated, "The issue of the pipeline is not just about the pipeline alone, but rather it is about the entire relationship between the United States and sovereign Indian Nations, their rights, traditions and religious beliefs. As we prepare our civil rights report on this relationship we...
