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Report: Pier water quality hit hard by dirty birds

SM PIER — Water quality near the Santa Monica Pier dropped in 2012, reversing much-celebrated gains from the year before, according to a report released Thursday by local environmental group Heal the Bay. Santa Monica went from all A’s during dry weather in 2011 to a B-grade in the summer and failing grades in both winter reporting periods, according to Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card, an annual accounting of water quality on the West Coast. Other measurement areas in [...]
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Environment Featured News
Task force blasts tree reports

KEN EDWARDS CENTER — Members of the Urban Forest Task Force ripped into consultants’ reports on the health of Santa Monica’s trees Wednesday, and vowed to send their concerns on to the City Council for further review. The reports examined a small sample of Santa Monica’s 35,000 street trees and management practices surrounding the multi-million dollar contract with West Coast Arborists (WCA), the company charged with caring for the local urban forest. The reports were in response to claims raised [...]
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Softball: Samohi romps way to semifinals

MEMORIAL PARK — By the end of the first inning, it was clear who would be moving on. Santa Monica softball put a five spot on the scoreboard in the first frame punctuated by a leadoff home run by junior Sara Garcia that essentially spelled the end of Paloma Valley’s trip to the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 quarterfinals on Thursday at Memorial Park. The 8-1 win sends the Samohi Vikings to the division semifinals for the first time since the [...]
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Featured High School Sports
Brief: Additional 405 lane to open on Friday

This weekend, drivers on the Westside can expect a lane opening instead of a closure for a change. Metro, the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project contractor and Caltrans announced they will officially open 1.7 miles of general purpose lane on today, Friday at 5 a.m. The opening will be northbound on Interstate 405 between Interstate 10 and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles. This opening is touted as a significant “project milestone” that will add lane capacity to one [...]
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Featured News Transportation
Brief: SMFD hosts free CPR training

Get some hands-on, hands-only CPR training for free, in honor of National CPR Week. The American Heart Association is collaborating with the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency to coordinate a countywide effort to instruct hands-only CPR. Throughout the week, emergency responders and healthcare providers will be going out to demonstrate and teach how to save a life. The Santa Monica Fire Department will join the effort by hosting a CPR training session on June 4 at Santa Monica [...]
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Briefs News
Briefs: BBB changes for Memorial Day

The Big Blue Bus announced that buses will run on Memorial Day. BBB will run its Sunday schedule on Monday, May 27, to accommodate users of public transportation during the holiday. Regular service resumes on all routes on Tuesday. Routes that do not operate on Sundays will not operate on the holiday. For more information, call (310) 451-5444.
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Brief: Local man commits suicide at UCLA

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office declared on Thursday that a body found near Boelter Hall at UCLA was that of a Santa Monica resident who committed suicide. The deceased was identified as Reynaldo Quitos, 47, a UCLA library employee who suffered “multiple traumatic injuries.” Quitos was an assistant in the Southern Regional Library Facility located across the campus. His body was found Tuesday. Quitos’ passing marks the second suicide this month on a college campus in the Los Angeles [...]
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Briefs News
Miriam battles the bulldozers

The recent $4 million beautification of Ocean Park Boulevard between Main Street and Lincoln Boulevard has received rave reviews. But Miriam Ginzburg, an Ocean Park resident since 1948, wasn’t one of them. One day during the construction Miriam was sitting in the house she’s lived in since 1957, when she had an unsettling experience. (Pun intended.) When the asphalt-flattening bulldozer rolled back and forth, Miriam’s walls shook, or, as she recalled, “It felt like a 7.0 earthquake.” She suddenly saw [...]
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Columns Featured Laughing Matters Opinion
Is this really how we honor our nation’s veterans?

Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians, corporations and others with similarly self-serving motives eager to go on record as being pro-military. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring for her veterans. We erect monuments for those who die while serving in the military, yet for those who return home, there’s little honor to be found. Despite the fact that the U.S. boasts [...]
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Columns Opinion That Rutherford Guy
Letter: Not a fair measurement

Editor: At the historic Jan. 8 City Council meeting, over 200 people marched to save the Pico Youth & Family Center (PYFC), the only organic youth center built by Pico Neighborhood residents, and decry the City Hall reports as false. Twenty eight of 29 benchmarks were met, yet the city staff, under the direction of City Manager Rod Gould, asserted that PYFC did not pass the test. This is what rhetoric scholar Ralph Cintron calls the “Discourse of Measurement.” The [...]
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Letters Opinion
Letter: Tax plan

Editor: It seems to me that there is a way to make sure all companies pay their fair share of taxes regardless of where they have set up their corporate offices. My proposed change to the IRS tax code: A corporation selling products or services operating in the U.S. pays taxes on all worldwide sales regardless of where an item was sold. The company can deduct taxes paid to other countries, but must deduct from those tax payments any incentives [...]
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Letters Opinion
City Hall rethinking water usage

CITYWIDE — Taking a shower, flushing toilets, watering the lawn — daily life requires water, and managing that need in a town of 90,000 residents and upwards of 200,000 workers and visitors is a challenge that City Hall is trying to conquer. City officials saddled themselves with a stringent goal in 2010, the last time that they took on the Urban Water Management Plan required by the state, committing the city to consume only 123 gallons per person, per day [...]
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Environment Featured News
Mr. Checkpoint goes to court

CITY HALL — A Santa Monica resident known for his website that shares DUI checkpoint locations has found himself on the other side of the coin fighting a civil rights case with City Hall over a 2011 incident in which he was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk. Sennett Devermont, the man behind MrCheckpoint.com, alleged in a lawsuit filed last year that the Santa Monica police officer who pulled him over for an illegal right-hand turn against a red light [...]
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Playoffs: Samohi moves on; New Roads out

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Santa Monica softball used the long ball to dispatch No. 1 seeded Segerstrom from the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 4 playoffs on Tuesday. Samohi’s Sara Garcia blasted two home runs in the contest and starting pitcher Whitney Jones overcame two early runs to shut down Segerstrom’s offense. The win sends Samohi to the third round of the playoffs today, Thursday, at home against Paloma Valley. The game begins at 3:15 p.m. Samohi finished [...]
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Featured High School Sports
Brief: Art for a cause

The seventh annual ART for CLARE event will be held at Bergamot Station on Sunday, June 2, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The charity event will include an art action with works by Ed Ruscha, Kim McCarty and actor Anthony Hopkins; a silent auction with items ranging from luxury vacations to sports memorabilia; live music and food from some of the area’s best eateries, including Lemonade and El Cholo. Bergamot Station is located at 2525 Michigan Ave. Advance tickets [...]
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Brief: Civic to have one more show

The Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra will perform a farewell concert for the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Saturday, May 25, before the historic venue closes at the end of June. The concert will feature works from renowned composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, such as movements from “The Sleeping Beauty Ballet” and his “Fifth Symphony.” The finale of the “1812 Overture” will end the concert. Santa Monica resident, professor of cello at UCLA and Grammy Award-winner Antonio Lysy will be a featured [...]
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