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Articles from the October 30, 2016 edition


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  • American Girls New Dolls & More for this Holiday Season

    Zane|Oct 30, 2016

    American Girl has something special for this year's holiday wish list-from newly released dolls to new movie specials, advice books, construction sets, and cooking kits that are sure to engage and entertain all season long! Melody Ellison Fostering harmony and joy this holiday season is Melody Ellison, American Girl's newest historical character growing up in 1960s Detroit during the civil rights movement. A budding singer filled with hope and enthusiasm, Melody encourages girls everywhere to...

  • Observer Announces Election Endorsements for 2016--Includes All 17 Statewide Measures

    Samuel Alioto, Observer Staff Writer|Oct 30, 2016

    Well it's that time of year again, on hyper-drive. In this craziest of all elections, here are the Observer's recommendations when you go to the polls: US SENATE: Kamala Harris. What a lame choice for an incredibly important political post. Kamala Harris is cautious and always poll-tested and surprisingly unaccomplished, Loretta Sanchez comes across as a cooky flake. Harris does seem smarter, and we do give her kudos for her negotiation with the banks over the foreclosure crisis, but she seems...

  • Animal Shelter Takes in 73 Purebred Great Danes

    Zane|Oct 30, 2016

    Alaqua Animal Refuge, a no-kill animal shelter located in Northwest Florida, has taken custody of 73 Great Danes that were recently involved in a large scale breeding operation. The Refuge was contacted by concerned family members of a "puppy mill" owner in declining health, after it was discovered he had abandoned the facility, no longer able to care for the animals. "This was an enormous undertaking in every sense of the word, but we knew we had to help," said Laurie Hood, Alaqua founder....

  • Antarctic Agreement Tentatively Reached for World's Largest Marine Reserve

    Observer Staff|Oct 30, 2016

    In 1970 nations of the world signed a 50 year deal ending in 2020, not to exploit Antarctica's natural resources, nor to settle people there, and to keep the continent demilitarized and nuclear free. There has been cheating along the fringes of that deal. The Chileans, for example, have 3 villages on the Antarctic Peninsula, so they can claim a native population with the treat is renegotiated 3 years from now. The Russians have made a dump of Belinghausen Island. After years of negotiations,...

  • Judge, Refusing to Release Acquitted Bundy's, Tasers & Arrests Their Attorney Instead

    Observer Staff|Oct 30, 2016

    update, 10/28: The Bundy brothers remained in jail Friday following a dramatic acquittal a day earlier in a courtroom that erupted into chaos after an attorney yelled at a judge for their release, resulting in him being subdued with a Taser gun and arrested. A jury delivered an extraordinary blow to the government Thursday in a long-running battle over the use of public lands when it acquitted all seven defendants involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in rural...

  • Coast Guard seizes 5,600 LBS of cocaine and 5 drug smugglers from a Submarine

    Lt. Donnie Brzuska, USCG|Oct 30, 2016

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Coast Guardsmen seized more than 5,600 pounds of cocaine and apprehended five suspected drug smugglers from a self-propelled semisubmersible, or SPSS, in the Pacific Ocean off Central America September 6. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche from Alameda, California, in partnership with a Joint Interagency Task Force South patrol aircraft from the U.S. Navy, intercepted a suspected drug smuggling vessel, which was laden with more than $73 million worth of cocaine. T...

  • Orthodox Rabbis Declare Marijuana Kosher for Passover, Sukkot

    Observer Staff|Oct 30, 2016

    Federal authorities still consider cannabis a schedule one drug. But orthodox Jews answer to a Higher authority. Orthodox Jewish authorities have declared cannabis and Marijuana Kosher (Parve) for Passover and all year, reports the Israel National News. After sniffing the leaves, Rabbi Kanievksy and Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein said that the Cannabis plant has a "healing smell," according to the Times of Israel, and blessed the leaves. For the eight-days of Passover, Jews avoid leavened bread and...

  • Santa Monica Spending $325,000 to Study Whether Residents are Happy. No, Seriously.

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Oct 30, 2016
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    At $350,000 per year, City Manager Rick Cole is the best paid City manager in the state, maybe the world. City Clerk Denise Anderson-Warren earns $189,000 per year. 105 Santa Monica City employees earn more than $200,000 per year. The average Santa Monica policeman or fire fighter makes $94,000 per year, spitting distance of six figures. Cops and firemen get to retire at 55 with a full pension. But are residents happy? Hmmm .... let's spend $325,000 and find out!! If the City wants to know how i...