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THURSDAY
03.17.16 Volume 15 Issue 104
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WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 A WEEK OF WOMEN’S WRITING ..PAGE 4 HOSPICE AND MEDICARE ............PAGE 5 RIDE WITH THE VALKYRIES ........PAGE 7 MYSTERY PHOTO ..........................PAGE 13
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Airport lease policy advances without commission approval BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
The Santa Monica Airport Commission did not endorse a new leasing policy for the airport at its March 15 meeting after two commissioners were unable to get
answers to their questions from airport advisor Nelson Hernandez. Hernandez came to the commission to preview a new airport leasing policy in advance of the City Council meeting on March 22. The report asked the commission to endorse the policy but, with
one member absent, the four-person panel deadlocked 2-2. At least three votes are necessary for passage of a measure at a five-person board. Leases at the airport have been controversial. Last year, council provided some 3-year leases to
non-aviation tenants, but declined to provide long-term leases to aviation businesses. At the time, council asked for more information on master tenant/sublease contracts. There are a total of 629 leases at the airport. About half are direct
leases with the city, but 323 tenants are subleases from one of six master tenants. Leases can cover entire buildings, office space or just a “tie-down” location for a single aircraft. SEE SMO PAGE 9
Samohi grad is comedic Gould
Phone poll questions LUVE initiative
Local product featured on ‘New York’s Funniest’
BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
An anonymous phone poll is occurring throughout Santa Monica to gauge support for the Land Use Voter Empowerment (LUVE) Initiative and explore potential alternatives to the measure. LUVE would limit development by requiring voter approval for all development agreements, any development above Tier 1 and any
GOULD
BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN
SEE POLL PAGE 10
Daily Press Staff Writer
Santa Monica represented in March Madness NCAA Tournament features players with local ties BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
The odds of filling out a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket are agonizingly slim. Experts have said that the mathematical probability of correctly picking the winning team in each
ST. MONICA VICTORY
The St. Monica High School boys varsity baseball team hosted Animo Leadership High School at Marine Park (St. Monica’s home field) in a non-league game on March 15 and won 5-3 to improve their record to 5-2. Pictured are Tony Farina charging the ball, Declan Kearney pitching and Michael Flores hitting.
Regardless of what you ask Charles Gould, you’re bound to get a humorous response. Inquire about his time at Santa Monica High School, and you might get something like this: “Even though I probably should have gone to Crossroads for the connections,” he said, “I saved my family $120,000.” Try to find out about his longterm career plans, and he’ll tell you he plans to parlay his future fame as a comedian into a stint as New York City’s mayor before becoming an erotic fiction writer. The widespread fame hasn’t come yet for Gould, but a career in comedy has begun in earnest. He
Morgan Genser
SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 8
SEE COMEDY PAGE 8