Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The County of Los Angeles has issued a statement reminding you not to go to Church, just in case you might forget. Because while a George Floyd rally is perfectly safe, being indoors worshipping God on a Christian holiday, is just as obviously unsafe. And then authorities want to know why they have no credibility. The Statement from the County says Church is unsafe "no matter what a Superior Court judge says," referring to a recent Court victory for Christians on First Amendment Grounds. A...
Update 12/27: The FBI identified a 63-year-old man as a person of interest in the investigation. Anthony Quinn Warner also owned a home near downtown LA, but recently quitclaimed it to an unidentified woman. Investigators searched his home in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville. Google Street View images of the address of Warner appeared to show an RV similar to the one used in the bombing. Neighbors of the property told a local news outlet that they recognized the RV in the image released by...
Fireworks erupted at a virtual SMMUSD meeting Thursday night, as other school board members insisted that Oscar de la Torre had legally resigned his position as school board member. De la Torre was recently elected to the Santa Monica City Council. School Board member Jon Kean objected to de la Torre participating as a Board member. The Superintendent of Schools, Ben Drati, explained to Oscar that he could not hold two offices simultaneously, because to do so would violate California law. "You a...
In a move that shows elections have consequences, the Santa Monica City Council voted 4 to 3 Tuesday night to end exclusive negotiations with OMA, the developer of the Plaza Project. The move reflects the new priorities of Council members Christine Parra, Phil Brock and Oscar de la Torre. The council voted in late July to negotiate with the Plaza Developer, and a 99 year lease of the City land seemed to be in the offing. A majority of 4 council members voted to break off negotiations with the...
Former Santa Monica City Council Member Robert "Bob" Holbrook has passed away. The former Mayor had been ill for sometime, reportedly with Lymphoma. Bob Holbrook was born in Santa Monica in 1941. He attended local schools, graduating from SamoHi in 1959. Holbrook was first elected to the SMMUSD School Board in 1982, and to the Santa Monica City Council in for 35 years off and on, ending in 2014. Seen as a businessman and a voice of reason on the council, he played the opposition role to the...
Several staff members and other US Senate sources say that California Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is 87 years of age, struggles to remember briefings just after they take place-and that her cognitive decline has been evident for several years. "They say her short-term memory has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have. They describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said and getting upset," reports the...
In Partnership with UCLA Dining, Venice Family Clinic will distribute meals on Tuesday 5/15 at its Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center in Santa Monica. The food distribution is intended to help its low-income patients struggling with food insecurity during the pandemic, says VFC in a press release. "With fewer students on campus to feed and more people facing food insecurity, UCLA has called on the skills of its dining staff to help serve the community by preparing nearly 13,000 nutritious...
There's an emergency lockdown in place and the meeting had to be held via Zoom. Nevertheless, Santa Monica did what it has done every two years for 150 years, and swore in a new City Council on Tuesday Night. New members Oscar de la Torre, Phil Brock and Christina Parra were sworn in by Santa Monica City Clerk Denise Anderson-Warren. Also sworn in were Kristin McCowan and Gleam Davis. After going a few rounds, the new Council voted in Sue Himmelrich as the two-year Mayor, and Kristin McGowan as...
LA's new DA will not prosecute women for prostitution. Nor will he imprison people for trespassing, disturbing the peace, driving without a license, or loitering. These are laws which historically are used to discriminate against black and brown people in white areas, says Gascon. He came to office with a mandate to change all that. This is completely in keeping with what Candidate George Gascon said he would do if elected Los Angeles County District Attorney. "Elections have consequences," as f...
The SMPD announced that it busted into a house in Santa Monica Monday, seizing weapons and drugs from a suspected cocaine dealer in North Hollywood. Guadalupe Zuniga was arrested for narcotics arresting. He was also arrested in 2019 on the same charge. The SMPD press release, written by Myesha Morrison, follows. Santa Monica PD's Special Investigations Unit (SUI) along with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) concluded a long-term investigation into a high-level methamphetamine and...
A doctor speaking to the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security dropped a bombshell Tuesday morning. He claims to have a prophylactic cure to coronavirus. Ivermectin is readily available, and has been used to treat Swine Flu in animals for decades. Pierre Kory, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine at St. Luke's Aurora Medical Center in Milwaukee. He told Congress that numerous studies have concluded Ivermectin completely prevents Covid-19 infection. "And so, it is with great pride as...
Rustic Canyon Restaurant on Wilshire and 11th Street reminds everyone that their new winter menu is available online. Donan Whelan has been the manager at Rustic Canyon for 4 years. We asked him what’s new about this menu. "We pivoted to more take-out friendly menu. We changed to Southern Comfort food, really hearty sides, blackened cod, there’s a red eye gravy with Brisket. So it’s got a real Southern food feel to it." "2020 has been a bit of a struggle, as it has for everyone else. But we're...
In an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19 in courthouses, the Los Angeles County Superior Court announced Wednesday that it would extend the time for criminal trials, under emergency powers granted by California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye under Government Code 68115. Los Angeles County, which has escaped the kind of coronavirus statistics seen in greater New York, has recently seen diagnosed cases skyrocket to around 5000 per day. The County has closed restaurants,...
Los Angeles County will bury 1547 unclaimed dead bodies in a mass grave. The event will be streamed online. The event will be held on December 3, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Since there is a three year lag between death and burial, none of these 1547 people, died of Covid-19. "With the cancellation of all large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Ceremony of the Unclaimed Dead will be live streamed," said the County in a press release. "The Department of Decedent Affairs deeply...
All of us know that the holidays will be different in 2020. Wear your masks, wash your hands, and don't travel anywhere. As for Santa, expect to converse with him through plexiglass, with him and his elves wearing N-95 masks. A real estate agent, Elaine Golden Gealer says she thinks there is plenty to celebrate, even in 2020. Her annual Thanksgiving display is on her lawn now. "I have put up holiday displays for many years... it's a neighborhood tradition," she says. "I put up displays for...
In case you thought 2020 couldn't get any stranger, Reuters is reporting that workers discovered a black metal monolith in the Utah Red Rock Desert National Monument. There is no indication of who put it there or when or why. Did it come from space and land here, so that we can evolve a higher level of human? Will it suddenly cure Covid-19, or perhaps do the opposite? Your guess is as good as ours. I'm sorry Dave. I can't tell you that. Utah’s highway patrol shared images of both the sheep a...
Thousands took to the streets of major US cities to celebrate as Joe Biden seemed to have clinched the 2020 Presidential election. "Joe Biden and I are ready to get to work on behalf of the American people," tweeted Vice President elect Kamala Harris. President Elect Joe Biden said he was honored and humbled by his election, something he has sought for decades. He planned to address the nation at 5 pm PST. US Senators Lindsey Graham and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that they...
Update 11/15: USA Today and other main stream media sources have labelled the OANN report and other reports about Dominion software, a debunked conspiracy theory. See Fact check: "Dominion voting machines didn't delete votes from Trump, switch them to Biden," https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/14/fact-check-dominion-voting-machines-didnt-delete-switch-votes/6282157002/ It's clear that Big Tech doesn't want Donald Trump sworn in as President on January 20th., 2021. It irks...
Several major networks have called the 2020 US presidential race for Democrat Joe Biden, after his lead in Pennsylvania widened to over half a percent. The move was hardly unexpected, given the Democrats growing lead in counting in Georgia, PA and other states once seen as Trump territory. With PA and Arizona, Biden/Harris's electoral vote total is 273, more than the 270 needed to win. In Pennsylvania, there is a possibility of a recount if the winner of a race does not have half a point over hi...
In an historic repudiation of Santa Monicans for Renters Rights, Phil Brock and Christine Parra appear to have won seats on the Santa Monica City Council. More incumbent city councilmembers (three) were voted out of office this week than in the past thirty years. This assumes that the preliminary results hold up in the final count. mail-in ballots will still be counted for the next two weeks and about 10% who votes are believed to be still out. The 4 members slate (Brock, Parra, de la Torre and...
If you received an email telling you that you need to show up for "Federal jury service" or face fines, it's probably a scam. The clerk of the Los Angeles Superior Court has warned the public that there is no one sending jury summonses by email, from any local court. The Los Angeles Superior Court does have a jury commissioner with a similar name, Sherri R. Carter. But she has nothing to do with the emails, and neither do the local Federal Courts. The press release signed by Los Angeles County...
"The researchers want to make sure older people who may have been exposed, essential workers, health care workers, home aides, and parents and caregivers of children who might be diagnosed as schools reopen know this trial is underway and how to reach out. We're trying to get the word out about the website, www.covidplasmatrial.org, says Liz DeForest, speaking for Johns Hopkins University. "This trial will help determine whether antibodies from people who have recovered from Covid-19 can help...
Have you noticed more lawn signs than last year advertising apartments for rent? Well, you could be seeing a trend. Santa Monica rents have decreased over 10% since the Coronavirus lockdown began on March 19, 2020. This according to the website, Insurify.com. "A recent study found that over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, California cities experienced some of the greatest drops in rent prices in the nation," wrote Emily Leff, a spokesman for Insurify, in a press release. "Between March...
The Los Angeles County Superior Court will move forward with certain jury trials and non-jury trials, announced the presiding judge announced on Friday. Masks, social distancing and hand washing will have to protect jurors, so that civil and criminal constitutional rights may be preserved during the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic. Given that there is a Federal, a California State, and a Los Angeles County stay on evictions (lawyers call them "Unlawful Detainers"). It is unclear what Judge...
Dhun May immigrated to the US from India when she was nine years old. She is Zoroastrian, a minority religion in that country. She has an adult son who passed away named Daniel, and a daughter who is a veterinarian. The daughter, Armiati May, is an activist for veganism and opposes 5G. Dhun May has no grandchildren. Why did you decide to run for SMMUSD? "I have ideas no one else has," says May. "There are simple things that can be done to improve the health of children, such as providing more...
