Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Fifteen years after his first victim was found strangled to death in an abandoned Santa Monica home, transient Edric Dashell Gross, 50, has been found guilty of her murder and that of a second victim. This is the second trial for Gross regarding the two murders. A 2015 trial ended with a hung jury. In April, 2001, Jacqueline Ovsak, 42, was found raped and strangled to death in an abandoned building in Santa Monica. A murder investigation was initiated, but led nowhere. Over a year later, in...
Sacramento, CA – A measure authored by Senator Ben Allen (D – Santa Monica) and Senator Mark Leno (D – San Francisco) urging California's Congressional representatives to work to overturn the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision will appear on the November 2016 ballot. Today, Governor Jerry Brown allowed SB 254 to become law without his signature, clearing the way for the Citizens United question to advance to the statewide ballot. The 2010 Citizens United ruling by the US Su...
Sherman Oaks, California – June 7, 2016 – It was an achievement for all parents of a young adult with autism when 21-year-old Noah Schneider stepped up on the stage Sunday afternoon to receive his diploma from Exceptional Minds, a vocational school for young adults on the autism spectrum. Noah is one of ten in the Exceptional Minds graduating class of 2016 and the inspiration for the vocational school, which was co-founded by his mom and other parents to help prepare their children with aut...
Okay, so let's get the sequence of events clear here: Hulk Hogan permissively has sex with a friend's wife, which the husband films. Hulk Hogan Sex Tape is somehow obtained by celebrity gossip site Gawker, and posted on the internet for all to see. Hogan get's mad, files lawsuit in Florida, and tells his story tearfully to a jury. Jury awards Hogan $140 million and this morning, Gawker files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy code. Got all that? Celebrity gossip website...
President Obama, visiting the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," says that he is "worried about the Republican Party" with the emergence of Donald Trump as its presumptive nominee. When Fallon asked Obama whether he thought the Republicans were happy with their choice of Trump, Obama replied, "We are." The audience laughed. It was the President's first visit to Jimmy Fallon, and his first public appearance after endorsing his former Secretary of State. For readers who don't watch cable...
Presumptive Republican party presidential nominee Donald R. Trump has been made of teflon, but attacking the judge in the Trump University case for his Mexican heritage, may have finally backfired for the candidate. Trump labelling of an American judge as "Mexican" in order to cast doubt on his fairness, has been labeled simple racism by many Republicans - even House Speaker Paul Ryan - and has again increased fears that Trump will destroy down-ballot Republicans in November. Potential donors...
Justin Bieber has made a career out of grabbing headlines through bizarre behavior. But his antics the last week may have set some sort of record. First there was the news that last night he was involved in a fistfight in Cleveland. There is a video on Youtube of him throwing punches at an NBA finals game. Even girlfriend Selena Gomez described the fight as "Stupid." That's undobtedly true, since the dude he got into the fistfight with is much much bigger than Justin. He posted a photograph of...
We received a press release saying that Santa Monica Public Works Director Martin Pastucha, has announced his retirement. His current salary is $270,924 annually. This made me curious (and envious): The City just hired a City Clerk who earns $255,000 a year. The City Manager makes $330,000 a year. First of all, these are astronomical to me, a journalist. Second, the highest elected official in California, Governor Jerry Brown, earns $192,000 a year. Why is it that the SM City Clerk earns...
A Long Beach man was convicted today of fatally stabbing a Cal State Northridge student after responding to the student's Craigslist ad to sell his car, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury of nine women and three men deliberated just 15 minutes before finding Agustin Rosendo Fernandez, 29, guilty of the first-degree murder of Abdullah Alkadi, 24. Jurors also found true the special circumstances of murder during a robbery and murder during a carjacking and a...
Our representative to the United States Congress, the well-intentioned if currently off-base Ted Lieu, has joined with another Democrat from San Jose to urge California Attorney General Kamala Harris on in her inappropriate harassment of ExxonMobil. Harris is attempting to find evidence to prosecute ExxonMobil for failing to disclose to the public what the company knew about climate change. Nobody likes oil companies. They are considered "greedy" and "dirty" and their products, along with enabli...
Former OC Housewife Gretchen Rossi has collaborated with fashion powerhouse brand GRAYSE to create a stunning collection of designer purses which will also raise awareness and funds for the American Heart Association. Marie and Kelly Gray are the designers and founders of the luxury brand and have a major influence on the fashion industry having founded the renown fashion brand St. John. The new collaboration has already been met with 100% positive reviews from leading fashion insiders and...
When are we going to demand a common threshold of acceptable behavior for the right to walk among the well behaved? The murder conviction today for Edric Dashell Gross, 50, an African-American transient found guilty of strangling two Santa Monica women followed a six-year investigation into his guilt - followed by a five-year search for his person. Apparently, when you have no address and constantly drift through the dozens of municipalities in the moderate climate of Southern California, you...
On the day the legislation takes effect, a group opposing California's new assisted suicide law have filed a lawsuit seeking a restraining order against suicide facilitators, who may administer lethal drugs prescribed by physician to terminally ill patients. The lawsuit claims that the civil rights of the terminally ill are violated by the assisted suicide legislation under the Equal Protection clause. The lawsuit was filed by five physicians in Southern California and by the American Academy...
In a final attempt to placate Progressive Democrats disappointed with his Presidential legacy, at 11 a.m. PST, President Barrack Obama emerged from a meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders, and endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. Clinton locked up the nomination on June 7th, when she won a string of state primaries, including California. Sanders vowed he would still compete in the Washington DC Primary, but did not say whether he would contest the Democratic National Convention, as he...
Mexico´s National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition "Salvador Zubiran" (INCMNSZ by its initials in Spanish) of the Health Ministry, is the only medical unit in Latin America to perform two successful upper limb transplants. Because of its high complexity, require the participation of a health professionals multidisciplinary team, from more than 15 specialities. At a press conference, was reported that Mexico is one of the 19 countries where it has been conducted the bilateral...
