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Jessica E. Davis (Editor) May 15, 2013 at 09:12 am
Hi Tom, thanks for your comment. Actually it has to do with making it easier for readers like you to…Read More engage on the site. I'm available if you have any other questions at jessica.davis@patch.com.
Jerry Rubin April 20, 2013 at 01:45 am
Thank you Tamara! Or should I say thank you Green T. See you and your friends on Earth Day.
Tamara April 19, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Check out Jerry as we have featured him in all our Tree Hugging videos:
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mimi April 16, 2013 at 02:41 pm
The Emily Shane Foundation is the best example of making lemonade from a rotten lemon.. The…Read More terrible tragedy that inspired this Mother to take meaningful action in her own community and surrounding areas is remarkable. Students with learning disabilities will now receive the education and assistance they need and deserve instead of dropping out of school and living a marginal existence.
Paul S April 12, 2013 at 05:49 pm
Very cool- all of it- and its mid-April- my brother is freezing in Marblehead, Masss-
mimi March 26, 2013 at 03:06 pm
Even if there is no financial savings, it's still an important project that needs our support.
RJ March 25, 2013 at 10:40 pm
.....sounds like a great "recycling" project....however, is it possible to find out just…Read More how much it cost to recycle the old tires from aqusition (the old tires) to the recycling process (what company does this) and then the cost for the city to purchase the recycled "planks"? We definitely need to recycle more but need to balance the cost of doing so.
Greg Fry March 28, 2013 at 02:16 am
Paul, you refer to this proposed development as a fait accompli, or at the very least as what you…Read More consider to be the best option in inexorable and unstoppable development alternatives. What of a much more sensible option: say "no" to ANY and ALL development proposals that would Manhattanize Santa Monica, and to insist that local government respect this will of its constituents or be ousted!
Paul Rich March 23, 2013 at 03:53 pm
I'm empathetic to valid public concerns yet hopeful a compromise can be reached. My sense from the…Read More Worthe-Gehry collaboration is there was a sincere effort for their plan to blend in and harmonize with Santa Monica sensibilities in both the ergonomic and aesthetic sense. Believe me, I'm not gullible and can be just as dubious and cynical as the next guy. As far as developers go, it could be a lot worse and I don't want to scare Gehry away as the dream remains among myself and many others that he could be cajoled into redesigning the Santa Monica civic auditorium. Perhaps Mr. Worthe could apply his business acumen to THAT project after convincing us cars will be able to get from Lincoln Blvd. to Ocean Avenue during rush hour in less than 20 minutes when the hotel is done?
Fresh Vibes May 1, 2013 at 03:35 pm
Shared Science www.sharedsciencefun.org has some really exciting summer camp weeks lined up. They're…Read More a great way to keep your kids engaged in exploring physical science, interacting with the way things work, and testing out ideas. Located in Long Beach, a copy of the summer registration info is posted as a pdf here.
Belinda Ramos April 26, 2013 at 04:18 pm
Cost only $10 per child.
One week Vacation Bible School @ Knott Avenue Chrisitan Church
(Cross…Read More Street Lincoln/Knott in Anaheim)
July 15-July 19 from 9AM-12PM
Open to age 3 - 6 grade
Kids will perform for their family and friends on the last friday evening.
J Otis April 18, 2013 at 08:23 pm
AbilityFirst Camp Paivika (www.camppaivika.org) provides overnight camping for children and adults…Read More with physical and developmental disabilities. It was founded in 1947 as one of the first accessible camps in the country. It is located near Crestline in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Glenn E Grab April 14, 2013 at 12:59 pm
mimi, believe it or not, the atomic bomb has prevented the escalation of wars between major…Read More powers....but we must not allow North Korea or Iran to make them..
Kim Halverson May 12, 2013 at 04:05 pm
With Santa Monica having a population of over 70% renters, this is not surprising.
Aaron Mirsky April 11, 2013 at 06:26 pm
Great letter! Mr. Hill, you have a wonderful perspective and attitude. I am relatively new hear, my…Read More family moved to Santa Monica in 1976. I cherish my memories at Santa Monica Beach and hope to continue to "refresh my soul" for many years to come.
Steven Rosen April 10, 2013 at 01:43 pm
Beautiful letter and I under his perspective. But I think if you look at the Quality of Life from a…Read More generic standpoint (if there is such a thing), I don't think we headed in an upward trajectory. I cannot imagine more traffic, and new skyline created by tall buildings and newly-required traffic management to make the Quality of Life better for any of us.
Stodj April 9, 2013 at 04:41 pm
Lovely comment. I sense from your letter a new perspective on why this growth is happening, besides…Read More the $ involved, everyone needs to refresh their souls in this time of history and Santa Monica does that...at least at the beach where, hopefully, building will not progress.
We do need to focus on halting the height of buildings as that will seriously change the environment here.
Thanks, Michael.
karen April 11, 2013 at 11:02 pm
I left Santa Monica in 1987. I went to Samohi and Lincoln, worked at Sears and loved the small town…Read More feel. Yes it's changed, but so has everywhere else. If my kids were young enough to drag along I would move there in a heartbeat. If you don't like it anymore, don't visit. I don't really understand why anyone would write to a local media outlet and complain about the town. How insulting. I'll take SM over the Bay area (talk about expensive!) any day.
SantaMonicaNative April 8, 2013 at 07:02 pm
Continued (sorry) The city changes.
More people, more housing needed. More people more cars, more…Read More traffic, more trash, more dogs. Next we get the commercial builders who see Santa Monica as a cashbox. In city where 10 stories is tall, we get money hungery people who don't live here, who think 20 stories is better. That's where we are now. A turning point in the city. Once you build them you can't take them back. The city will change even more with the Expo line. We can't stop change, we can't restrict building except through zoning. We can temper it. What we can do is shop locally to save the few local businesses that remain and call City Hall on over ambitious projects. Speak up! It's frustrating-they don't listen but eventually they can be voted out. Don't let Santa Monica turn into Beverly Hills by the sea. We need normal businesses we can afford. Places to eat that you don't need a loan. Stop voting for group politics, read the ballot, get involved, even if only on a personal level. Know your city, don't just complain.
SantaMonicaNative April 8, 2013 at 06:47 pm
My parents loved Santa Monica, the first place i remember was a huge old house on 4th and Montanna…Read More which had been subivided into units. If my parents had kept all the properties they owned in this city, i'd be rich. That said i must admit i still love Santa Monica. Go back to any city you grew up in and you will be shocked by the change. Part of the change has to do with the congested state if Caliornia. There are more people, no doubt of that. The other thing is memory tends to blur the facts. The things that matter to an adult are meaningless to a child. There are so many things that have disppeared from this city but they have been replaced by other things. Nothing but bugs are ixed in amber,cities can't be. In addition to that, Santa Monica has not grown in a natural fashion. The City Council has intervened in the natural growth of the city with laws, taxes and programs to fashion a city THEY want, not necessarily what would have been. The city has been pushed into a schitzophrenic combination of high ideals and directed outcomes. Rent control remade the city, changing it from a city with children and families to single renters. Vacancy decontrol helped to change that. Mom and pop owners are almost gone. Few small businesses can exist here, they can't compete with chains The city favors tenants over landlords, lawyers are expensive so properties get sold, torn down and replaced by multiple units. Low income housing increases the density of neighborhoods.
Anna Corral May 9, 2013 at 04:27 pm
If this youth center is to grow in a community based environment to support all here then new…Read More provisions can come forward in change for a better not stuck existence!
Dont think that for a moment city members of council did not have a negative motive to remove from a community group of ppl by throwing smoke screens in to deter the truth here!!! Tell me honestly where some of a white background can truly understand how ones of other ethnicities engage, embrace, or act-only academics and principles based around new or learned behavior stops dumb shit! i would like to see social entegration where races come together to bring new developements of learning how to be not segregated bystanders who base their decisions off of distant onlooking! When u know better, u do better-right, isnt that a intention?
Tom hays April 3, 2013 at 03:59 pm
Some thoughts.
Oscar has done a great job over the years but it does seem like it is time for him…Read More to move on, mainly because it may not be possible to recruit an effective and independent board otherwise.
It also seems like the city has set PYFC up for failure by setting perhaps impossible conditions for funding and outcomes reports.
It also seems like Oscar is setting up the future for problems by prejudging any other nonprofit as taking on a thankless role of operating the center as a hostile takeover.
Overall, quite a dilemma and whatever happened to the $1,600,000 bequest?
Daniel Jansenson April 10, 2013 at 03:04 am
I am absolutely certain that people on this board are smarter than I am in any case, credit given or…Read More not. I am full of admiration for the immediate neighbors of this hotel, who are trying to take action--yes, it is their legal right to do so--before it is too late. They are behaving as good citizens should; communicating with their neighbors, presenting the issue, and trying to organize the community. Nothing dishonest or disingenuous in that; they should be commended for their efforts.
mimi April 9, 2013 at 07:10 pm
SMR - People reading this board are a lot smarter than you give them credit. They realize your…Read More comments are disingenuous, if not dishonest. My only interest, which you choose not to believe, is to give the hotel a fair chance before you tar and feather the owner. I would do the same for you if you opened a business and your neighbors gave you a hard time just because they had the legal right to do so.
David R. April 9, 2013 at 06:56 pm
I was born in this city and grew up here. I always thought that I would come back when time and…Read More circumstance shined just right. I have been talking to an old friend who happened to move into my old neighborhood (11th and Carlyle) and he is telling me things that are just making me ill. David R.
RJ April 9, 2013 at 06:47 pm
....mimi, I'm laughing cause I'm not quite sure if its "BS" you're claiming Redford would…Read More never use such language in public.....if it is I'm guessing you've missed a few interview he has had. Mr. Redford definitely knows how to speak with "colorful" language "in public" BTW who/what "dissenters" are you refering to???
RJ April 9, 2013 at 06:43 pm
.....but Glenn, hasn't the airport been here for a very, very, long time and since its called an…Read More airport I'm guessing planes have been taking off and landing for the same amount of time. Wasn't the airport in place before all the homes were built? I guess the housing developers got carried away with "over development" even back then.
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