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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004
Volume 3, Issue 163
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Taking a bite out of blight
Shift! SUPER LOTTO PLUS
BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON
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Daily Press Staff Writer
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by Chuck Shepard
■ St. Louis School Board member Rochell Moore was finally removed by a judge for misconduct in April, after incidents beyond the one reported last August in News of the Weird (in which she put a biblical curse on Mayor Francis Slay because she disagreed with his school reform proposals). At the board meeting that ultimately resulted in her dismissal, Moore dumped a pitcher of ice water on an assistant superintendent and later publicly threatened violence against anyone who suggests that she may be mentally ill (though she was involuntarily hospitalized for that in 2002). HEADLINE OF THE DAY Small earthquake in Chile; Not many killed. Headline suggested for The Times of London by Claud Cockburn
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Local Goodies and plenty . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Opinion Man better be kind . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Business Rebalancing act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
National Cooking with Kerry . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
People in the News Corsage crooner . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
CITY HALL — Officials here have settled a lawsuit with a local developer who claimed that bureaucratic delays on his Main Street project cost him millions of dollars. The City Council agreed to settle with Howard Jacobs for $125,000, despite the fact that a Santa Monica Superior Court judge ruled last year City Hall was not to blame for the delays. Jacobs filed suit in 2001 and had been seeking $2.5 million. The case was on appeal. File photo “The council wanted to make Workers demolished the former Pioneer Boulangerie Bakery on Main a good faith gesture and to jump- Street earlier this month. The new development slated for the site had start this project,” said Deputy been the subject of a three-year lawsuit against City Hall. City Attorney Cara Silver, who feels the case has dragged on land to his former company, for years. Many city officials Seth Kotok/Special to the Daily Press long enough. “As a result, the 2000 Main Street LLC. Jacobs’ and residents consider the area a Plumbing crew leader Gil Trester was building has been standing representatives for 2000 Main blight on the neighborhood — treated to a free lunch as part of “Bike Street wouldn’t comment on the abandoned building was to Work Day” on Wednesday at the Ken vacant and is an eyesore.” Edwards Center on 4th Street. Trester Jacobs, who used to own the who owns the company, except home to vagrants, and attracted rides his bike to work each day from property on the north end of to say that an ownership group litter and graffiti. It was recently Wilshire Boulevard to the City Yards. Main Street, has transferred the represents the corporation. demolished to make way for Other sources close to the prop- new luxury apartments and erty say Jacobs, who now lives commercial shops. The development site occuin Florida, serves as a consultant pies the entire block bounded to the LLC. The corporation plans to between Neilson Way and Main develop what was once the Street, and Bay Street and Pioneer Boulangerie Bakery, Bicknell Avenue, as well as located on the north end of Main another parcel across the street. BY MICHELLE LOCKE threshold set for calling a beverage Street, which has been vacant See SETTLED SUIT, page 6 Associated Press Writer low-carb. The new rules say fat and protein (wine has none of the former RUTHERFORD — Ever won- and only a trace of the latter) must be der if that full-bodied wine will listed along with calories and carbs. leave you in a similar condition? They forbid any implication that Some wineries are tapping into con- low-carb alcohol can play a healthy sumers’ low-carb cravings with new role in losing or maintaining weight. labels listing calorie and carbohyDiageo, which had been studying drate counts. nutritional labeling for some time, Some see the new trend in wine plans to do that with its BV Coastal, bottles as a way for the premium Sterling Vintners Collection and wine industry to connect with cus- Century Cellars brands. The infortomers who want to know how many mation will go on labels hung carbs are in their chardonnay. around the top of the bottle, known “People want this information as bottle neckers. A sample for BV and we have a good story to tell,” Coastal Estates 2002 chardonnay said Ray Chadwick, president of bills the wine as “Low Carbs, High Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines, Standards,” and says a 5-ounce servowner of Beaulieu Vineyard. ing contains 3 grams of carbohyBeer companies already are mar- drates, 124 calories, less than 1 gram keting low-carb versions of their of protein and no fat. product and the federal Alcohol and Also giving the lowdown on low Tobacco Tax and Trade bureau recentNicky Five Aces/Special to the Daily Press carbs is Sutter Home Family ly said alcoholic beverage producers Vineyards, which will be using bot- An unidentified man feeds a squirrel recently in Palisades Park. may list calorie and carbohydrate contle neckers and listing nutritional The California squirrel is a known carrier of the bubonic plague, tent on labels. information on its Web site. Its and it’s illegal to feed them, according to Los Angeles County’s Most dry wines are already well health ordinance, section 10.84.010. See CARBS, page 7 below the 7 grams per serving
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