Two Questions
ONE: The City has scheduled a meeting at which Santa Monica tenants and landlords will be encouraged to air their differences and perhaps make something akin to peace. But, whether or not the tenants and landlords manage to find some common ground, will one or both groups turn their sights on City Hall? A growing number of tenants are angry at City Hall for failing to invest in and preserve existing rental housing stock, rather than spending millions on new ”affordable... Read More
Expo Yard Belongs Downtown
The Expo Construction Authority and City staff persist in saying that the Verizon property at Stewart Street and Exposition Boulevard, just south of the Lantana complex is the only suitable location in this area for the Expo light rail maintenance yard. Finding it impossible to believe That there weren’t other likely stets Along the line in West L.A. or Santa Monica, my friend Craig Bowie and I went exploring. We found a couple of likely sites in West L.A. near Anawalt... Read More
Group Claims Expo Rail Line Is ‘Deadly’
The following statement was issued Friday by Citizens’ Campaign to Fix the Expo Rail Line. MTA board members are claiming that in comparison to their Metrolink peers their rail safety policies are worthy of praise. Not true says a prominent Southern California rail safety advocacy group. “Comparing the rail safety of Metrolink to MTA is like comparing Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy,” said Damien Goodmon, coordinator of the MTA watchdog group Citizens’... Read More
Lincoln Place Settlement Reached
Part One An historic agreement has ended years of litigation over the fate of the historic Venice apartment complex. On August 11 and 12, 2009 Aimco Venezia LLC (“Aimco”) agreed to a settlement with former tenants of Lincoln Place that will provide for the preservation of the exteriors of the existing “historic eligible” buildings and return the property to rental housing use. One very important term of the Settlement is that AIMCO will make up to 83 units available... Read More
Book Report
Sarah Palin’s memoir, which won’t hit book stores until next week, already tops best-seller lists. In a column not so long ago, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that Palin was “a cage without a bird.” SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Book Report", url: "http://www.santamonicadispatch.com/2009/10/book-report/" }); Read More
Samohi Aims for Car Free Campus
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000229 EndHTML:0000007790 StartFragment:0000002644 EndFragment:0000007754 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/peggyclifford/Documents/PressReleaseCarFreeCampu%20Folder/PressReleaseCarFreeCampusfinal. It’s an American ritual – teenagers and cars, but on Wednesday, October 21,for the first time in years, the Samohi campus may be car free. Santa Monica. High School staff and students are being urged to double the number of cyclists, walkers, and bus riders... Read More
