Governor Drops Shriver, Eastwood from Parks Panel

Tweet The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped his brother-in-law, Bobby Shriver, and actor/director Clint Eastwood from the state parks commission “after their vigorous opposition helped derail a plan for a toll road through San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County.” According to the Times, “The decision not to renew the commissioners’ terms, which expired last week, surprised observers and sent a strong signal that the governor... Read More

Progress: Santa Monica Style

Tweet In 1994, the City of Santa Monica adopted a “Sustainable City Plan.” which it described as “a visionary plan for the community’s future.” In 2003, the Council expanded the Plan. In 2004, work on the revision of the city’s General Plan land use and circulation elements got underway. The state mandates that every city revise its General Plan every 20 years. As Santa Monica’s last General Plan was done in 1984, the revision should have been completed, not... Read More

SMC Faculty Photo Show Opens

Tweet The Santa Monica College faculty photography exhibit opened March 17 at the Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery at the SMC Performing Arts Center on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 22. The gallery is open from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. It will be closed from April 7 to 12 for spring break. The exhibit will close April 19. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SMC... Read More

Second Homicide Under Investigation

Tweet For the second time in four days, Santa Monica Police Officers responding to a call from a worried mother, found an apparent homicide victim in a Santa Monica apartment. On Wednesday, March 19, at 8 p.m. the police went to a condominium complex in the 500 block of Montana Avenue and found Alexander Merman, 35, dead inside his apartment. According to an SMPD press release, “It appears the victim died as a result of blunt force trauma. It is unknown how long the victim... Read More

SAVE OUR STATE PARKS

Tweet Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new budget calls for closing a number of state parks, including Topanga and Will Rogers State Park in our neighborhood. The Santa Monica Canyon Civic Association has adopted the following Resolution. The Los Angeles City Council is espected to adopt a similar resolution next week. We would like to think the Santa Monica City Council would follow suit, but it has become increasingly skittish, downright timid actually, about approving... Read More

Treesavers Are Everywhere

Tweet On Thursday, March 20, at 7 p.m., Treesavers will hold a ‘Spring Equinox’ support meeting at Ken Edwards Center. 1527 Fourth Street. On Saturday March 22, at 2 p.m. the Treesavers will gather again to stage a ‘Tree-in’ at Fourth and Broadway. Participants are asked to bring folding chairs. Treesavers will provide ‘Save The Trees’ posters. Event monitors should arrive at 1:30. In addition, Treesavers has formally requested that the... Read More

SMPD Investigates Apparent Homicide

Tweet After receiving a phone call late Sunday afternoon from Juliana Redding’s mother saying she couldn’t reach her daughter and was worried, Santa Monica Police Officers went to the young model’s apartment in the 1500 block of Centinela Avenue and found her dead inside her apartment. According to the police, Redding, 21, appeared to have “died as a result of an assault. It is unknown how long the victim had been dead prior to being discovered.” From Tucson, Arizona,... Read More

Dutton’s People Will Prevail

Tweet Among the vilest biblical admonitions is “God blessed man and gave them dominion, and told them to multiply, and subdue the earth. All was declared good.” No nation in history has taken the order more literally than America,suggesting that the authors of the bible were the world’s first capitalists. So it was that American industry multiplied, and subdued the earth and its atmosphere, and now global warming is a fact, oceans and temperatures are rising, polar bears... Read More

10,000 Protest War

Tweet About 10,000 people marched from Hollywood and Vine to CNN headquarters at Sunset and Cahuenga to protest the war in Iraq on Saturday. Similar protests were scheduled to take place in cities all over the world as Saturday was the fifth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, The organizers also reported that the crowd was unusually “youthful,” and that this was the first time many of them had taken part in an anti-war rally. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "10,000... Read More

Major Anti-War Rally is Saturday

Tweet Thousands of people are expected to gather at Hollywood and Vine at noon Saturday, March 15, the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, to protest the war. Similar protests will take place simultaneously in many other cities in this country, as well as in cities all over the world. Scheduled to appear at the march and rally are Santa Monica resident, writer-director Paul Haggis, writer Gore Vidal, a longtime critic of American imperialism, Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic,... Read More