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DOWNTOWN — Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials are considering switching to district-wide fundraising, a move which proponents believe would cut to the roots of the achievement gap by evening up financial support for schools with higher populations of low-income students.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — While California may have had the highest number of anti-Semitic attacks in 2010 with 297, Santa Monica police reported only two last year, according to hate crimes data released this week by Anti-Defamation League and the SMPD.
MAIN LIBRARY “The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips,” detective fiction author Raymond Chandler wrote in his 1943 novel “The Lady in the Lake.
MALIBU CITY HALL — Revolutionary fervor gripped the Board of Education meeting Thursday as Malibu residents protested their lack of representation in a district they say is disproportionately funded by their taxes.
The Westside’s Emergency Winter Shelter Program will open six weeks early this year in order to help deal with a sudden and dramatic increase in homelessness in Council District 11, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Councilmember Bill Rosendahl announced.
WEST LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday that would release millions of dollars to retrofit and renovate several buildings on the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration campus.
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
On Monday, Oct. 10, the bakery and cafe Panera Bread is donating 100 percent of sales from its Pink Ribbon Bagels to the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.
CITYWIDE — Most criminals caught in Santa Monica hail from outside of city borders, according to statistics released by the police department. Santa Monica police recently created a graph depicting the total number of arrests by year from Jan.
SM BEACH — On the heels of Los Angeles County’s first significant rainfall since March, Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay is urging people to not go into the water at local beaches for at least 72 hours.
