Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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NICU Babies Dress Up for Halloween To earn her Girl Scout Silver Award, Santa Monica resident Emma Crawford and a friend, Ella Rose, have made tiny Halloween costumes for babies in Cedars-Sinai's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The costumes are inspired by famous children's book characters and are designed for hospitalized infants as small as two pounds. They are created in such a way that they do not disturb tubing or other medical apparatus. This year's costumes are inspired by characters in...
A bill before the State Legislature could reverse the Costa Hawkins Law. This 1995 law allows a landlord to get out from under rent control by declaring a kind of bankruptcy, and going out of business. It modified Santa Monica's 1978 Rent Control law. Costa Hawkins also excludes from rent control single-family homes and apartments built after 1995. The new law would repeal Costa Hawkins through an initiative on the 2018 ballot. California is in the grip of a housing crisis. The median price of...
Jack Ruby (the man who killed the man who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy), was confused with a strip club operator named HARRY Rubenstein. This according to new documents released by the Federal government this week, and posted online at a government archive website. A few days after the Kennedy assassination, a man named Jack Ruby walked into a Dallas police station and shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Ruby is a dark and mysterious figure. The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald denied the...
Analysis examines role of emergent class of intermediary that galvanizes efforts of organizations and movements to create a new normal BOSTON, October 26, 2017-In much the same way that Adam Smith's "invisible hand" works in the private sector, there are unseen agents that are helping to accelerate social change, according to new research by The Bridgespan Group. "How Field Catalysts Galvanize Social Change," published in Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2018 issue), shares research...
A bomb threat closed Santa Monica high school early this afternoon. Students were sent home just after lunch and Pico Boulevard was closed west of Lincoln Boulevard for two hours. All available Santa Monica Police Department units responded at the time. It was determined that the telephone thread had no validity and ultimately the area was cleared and reopened. Lincoln Boulevard and Pico Boulevard may both be considered major Westside arteries....
