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MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 163
Santa Monica Daily Press
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Support running deep Property owners will pay to clean Bay
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Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE It appears there’s majority support among residents to more than double stormwater parcel fees in an effort to prevent further pollu-
tion from going into the Santa Monica Bay and meet state environmental standards. A recent polling of residents throughout the city indicates that most property owners would support the local government increasing
See STORMWATER, page 6
A feeling they can shake
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON
their annual stormwater fees from $36 to $100. That’s for a single-family parcel — multi-family and commercial properties could be more or less, depending upon acreage and usage. The fees would be adjusted for inflation. For a majority of the respondents,
SHEPARD
‘The skiddiest of all’ is getting attention as LA grapples with luxury housing boom BY JOHN ROGERS Associated Press Writer
CityTV 16, has a different plan of action in mind than following in the footsteps of “Entertainment Tonight’s” Mary Hart. In short, Henry wants to change the world. And that’s not some tired cliché. This small-town girl from White Hall, Arkansas, believes God has given her a gift and that gift is to entertain, while at the same time, keep the public informed about the issues that truly affect them. Henry believes that people are hungry for
LOS ANGELES It’s been called “the skiddiest of all Skid Rows,” 50 square blocks of abandoned factories, burned-out storefronts, rundown hotels, dingy bars and seedy liquor stores, interspersed among hundreds of makeshift homes, most of them built with abandoned cardboard boxes and stolen shopping carts. Located an easy walk from City Hall, police headquarters and other downtown seats of power, this last stop for the destitute has been a fixture of the nation’s second-largest city for nearly a century. Folk singer Woody Guthrie called it “the skiddiest of all Skid Rows” in his 1943 autobiography “Bound For Glory.” Poet Charles Bukowksi said it was populated by “people who are mutilated and almost dead ... creeping, crawling, uncared for creatures.” These days the area has been getting a less poetic though equally hard look. With a burgeoning real estate market bringing luxury apartments and condos to the edge of Skid Row, city leaders are torn between letting gentrification roll over the area or trying to make it a more hospitable environment to get help with homelessness, drug addiction, mental illness and other troubles. Among other measures:
See PROFILES, page 8
See SKID ROW, page 9
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 142nd day of 2006. There are 223 days left in the year. On May 22, 1868, the “Great Train Robbery” took place near Marshfield, Ind., as seven members of the Reno gang made off with $96,000 in loot. In 1761, the first life insurance policy in the United States was issued, in Philadelphia. In 1819, the first steam-propelled vessel to attempt a trans-Atlantic crossing, the Savannah, departed from Savannah, Ga. (It arrived in Liverpool, England, on June 20.) Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press The hip-hop dancers of ‘Rhythm & Groove’ perform during the Apex 12th Annual Youth Olympics at SMC on Saturday. Apex helps young Asian Americans explore career choices, make contacts and gain community spirit.
“Tact is, after all, a kind of mind-reading.”
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
AMERICAN AUTHOR (1849-1909)
COMMUNITYPROFILES |
INDEX Horoscopes Create the action, Aquarius
2
Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 62°
3
Tired of being uninspired
4
Commentary Da Vinci unplugged
5
Local Know before you go
7
State Anything but easy street
9
National Bordering on education
10
Comics Laugh it up
13
DBAs Taking care of business
C O M M U N I T Y P R O F I L E S I S A W E E K LY S E R I E S T H A T A P P E A R S E A C H M O N D A Y A N D D E LV E S I N T O T H E P E O P L E W H O L I V E , W O R K A N D P L AY I N S A N TA M O N I C A .
Journalist has message for her audience BY KEVIN HERRERA
Opinion
15-18
the Pico outfall at the Santa Monica Beach. Officials are considering raising stormwater fees to further prevent pollution from entering the ocean.
STATE
The newly installed municipal sewer system in the Florida Keys town of Islamorada was scheduled to go on line in May, but the real test will come shortly after that if the town cannot hook up a threshold number of residents to allow the system full, efficient functioning. The fallback plan, according to the town government, will require it to buy enough out-of-town sewage to boost the weak flow that would be running through the system.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press
SIFTING AWAY Trash piles up near
Daily Press Staff Writer
THIRD STREET As a former Miss Arkansas and a staple on the red carpet, having hosted one of Oscar night’s most exclusive after-parties, Tamara Henry is often dismissed as another ditsy blonde entertainment reporter using her looks and connections to make it big in television or film. That’s not far off, well, most of it anyway. Henry’s undeniably attractive, and definitely dialed in to the entertainment industry. However,
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OH HENRY CityTV reporter has come a long way from Miss Arkansas pageant.
after a moment’s inspection, it’s clear that Henry, who also co-hosts several news programs for Santa Monica
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