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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014
Volume 13 Issue 73
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE ROLLING AROUND ISSUE
Council considers new major bike route BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
MICHIGAN AVE Cyclists are on the verge of scoring some major upgrades. City Council will take a look at the plans for a major bike route in Santa Monica from
the incoming Expo Light Rail’s Bergamot Station to the Santa Monica Pier. Council will only consider funding of one part of the route Tuesday night, a section around Santa Monica High School. The rest of the route will be funded over the next eight years and beyond.
City planners studied the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway (MANGO) with a grant from Caltrans. One aspect of that plan, which would include traffic diverters at 11th Street on Michigan Avenue, has stirred some controversy in the Pico Neighborhood — where a
majority of the route runs — since it passed through Planning Commission last year. These diverters would restrict turns. One faction of the Pico Neighborhood Association favors the diverters while anothSEE BIKES PAGE 10
L.A. residents moving east despite lack of available jobs THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES
During the recession, Los Angeles County lost tens of thousands of residents to the eastern counties of the Inland Empire despite the area’s staggering unemployment rate, new Census Bureau estimates reveals. The migration marked the nation’s biggest net county-to-county movement from 2007 to 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. According to the Census data roughly 35,000 more people moved to the Inland Empire from Los Angeles County than the opposite direction. The migration occurred as
Riverside and San Bernardino counties lost 144,000 jobs. The gulf in housing costs continued to be a powerful force drawing the Pacific coast city’s residents eastward, where the median price for a home is almost $200,000 less than the $449,000 average in Los Angeles County, said John Husing, chief economist of the Inland Empire Econimic Partnership. The people who moved included rich and poor spanning across educational levels, according to the newly released Census Bureau estimates. “People respond to prices,” Husing told the SEE MOVING PAGE 11
State health exchange planning for budget deficit MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press
LOS ANGELES Covered California, held up as
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Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com Over 100 local elementary school students opened the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District's annual Stairway of the Stars concert Friday night at Samohi.
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a jewel in the nation’s up-and-down health care overhaul, is setting aside nearly $200 million to fight off projected budget shortfalls as it prepares for what it says is a challenging financial future without hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid. Officials brimmed with confidence after the agency tallied 625,000 individual or family health care enrollments through midJanuary, the most of any state. They also say its survival is not assured, in part because of the uncertainty around sign-ups that are key to
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the exchange’s success. The greatest vulnerabilities include the “long-term sustainability of the organization” after federal grants that have been its sole source of support, more than $1 billion so far, dry up this year, the agency’s executive director, Peter Lee, wrote in December to the California Department of Finance. Lee outlined a list of potential risks that, along with the pace of enrollments, included safeguarding personal data, staff training and turnover, and protecting the agency from fraud and waste. To be self-sustaining, he said, SEE HEALTH PAGE 8
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