Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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In a weekend appointment that says they must have met in secret before meeting via Zoom, the Santa Monica City Council appointed one of their own as City Manager: City Attorney Lane Dilg. This leaves open the question of who will run the City Attorney's office. Lane is known for not offending anyone, if possible. And for doing what the Council asks, for example, by resisting districting even after the City lost a lawsuit over it. We are in the middle of a pandemic, and it is perhaps no surprise...
City Manager Rick Cole has offered his resignation to the City Council. In recent meetings, dramatic budget cuts due to Covid-19 have been discussed, but never formalized. His letter is articulate, but my take on it is the City budget is a train wreck and Rick Cole wants to get out of the way of it. Covid-19 and Coronavirus only hastened what was in the cards anyway. A small beach city couldn't build its way out of promising 10,000 pensioners six figure pensions. Not to mention employing 2000...
The US Small Business Administration has begun to make $2000 advance payments on the $10,000 loans we were encouraged to apply for 30 days ago when the Covid-19 lockdowns began. This has been confirmed by several posting people on Reddit, and this author personally received $2000 in the interest of disclosure. The $10,000 EIDL payments were approved in the third $2.2 trillion package approved by Congress on April 3, 2020. Wall Street received $500 billion, small businesses with employees got...
CNN reports that US Intelligence is investigating reports Kim, who has ruled North Korea for ten years since his father's death, is fighting for his life after coronary surgery. MSNBC's Katy Tur just tweeted then deleted, that North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un is brain dead following open heart surgery. He has not been seen in public in weeks, which was presumed to be about germaphobia and Coronavirus annoyance. Katy Tur is a reporter for MSNBC. In the interests of disclosure, I used to babysit he...
Starbucks coffee company has begun to close locations on the pricey Westside. A sign in the window at the 15th and Montana Avenue location says the store will not reopen after Covid-19 ends. The letter says that the store will be closing permanently. It refers patrons to the locations on 11th and Wilshire, 26th and San Vicente, and 7th and Montana Avenue. It is signed by Michael Haddad, District Manager. Some experts expect the lockdown to continue on and off throughout 2020. The lockdowns are...
A moderate earthquake shook West Los Angeles and Santa Monica Just after midnight, on Wednesday morning April 22. The temblor was centered 12 KM southwest of Los Angeles, in Windsor Hills. Preliminary estimates measured the magnitude at 3.7 on the 10 point Richter scale. "I'm happy to have slept thru last night's little quake," tweeted Caltech's Dr. Lucy Jones. "It appears to be on the Newport-Inglewood fault, at almost the same location as 4 M3 quakes in April, May and June 2015. Those and...
A poster on Next Door reports that she was nearly run down in Venice by a masked woman on a bike who hurled insults at her. She details Wednesday afternoon's altercation, which occurred while she was running with earbuds. The woman may have been a crazy homeless person. Or she may have been a local resident, driven to insults by Covid-19 and the shutdown. Here's the post from NextDoor: "I was in the middle of a run (minding my own business on a sidewalk) when this woman bikes behind me near...
