Programs for disabled forced to wait for funds
By NORA SORENA CASEY Special to the Daily Press
DOWNTOWN As the state budget remains in limbo, local disability providers and clients
Life comes full circle for CREST’s Torres
By CHRISTINA YOON Special to the Daily Press
REED PARK For kids and parents in Santa Monica with questions about local afterschool
“IT’S GREAT THAT NEW BUSINESSES have moved in to Lincoln and Rose including the Whole Foods market, which spent millions upgrading the entire building, parking lot, and area, something
“ALTERING FOR THE BETTER. VENICE needs to be so thankful for having Whole Foods clean up that area. We need to have all stores in Santa Monica clean up and
“WHOLE FOODS DOES ADD TO THE gentrification of Venice, but what’s really upsetting everybody is Whole Foods has said that they’re getting rid of the 99 Cents Store
“OVER GREED-IFICATION IS MORE LIKE it. I was working with Treesavers of Santa Monica. I came back to Venice one day to find to my shock and disgust that
“IN THE DOCUMENTARY ‘DOGTOWN’ they say the beach neighborhood in the ‘70s was dangerous, dirty, and filthy. It was paradise. Now the same $25,000 homes are $2.5 million
“GENTRIFICATION IS A BAD THING. Where are the drug dealers and gang-bangers going to live?”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 13, 2008.
“DON’T YOU JUST LOVE THE WORD ‘gentrification?’ A nice euphemism for ‘over-development.’ Of course, Venice is about 30 years behind the overbuilt disaster that Santa Monica has become
“DEFINITELY A BOON TO THE AREA. Cleans it up, looks better, looks safer and more inviting and the people have rent control so they can stay in the area while
“DEVELOPMENT LIKE WHOLE FOODS IS detrimental to the area. Whole Foods destroyed all the ficus trees in its parking lot. This is totally unnecessary. If they are really into whole
