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No free ride in Santa Monica Proposed changes ax complimentary Downtown parking practice

BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer

CITYWIDE Free parking may be a thing of the past in Downtown Santa Monica if a draft of proposed changes to parking rates

citywide makes it to the City Council intact

by July.

City officials are contemplating a full parking-rate overhaul with the intent to encourage drivers to park further from the city center in an attempt to ease congestion and increase

turnover of prized parking spots.

That involves increases in the price of short-term parking across the board with the noted exception of the lots at the Main Daniel Archuleta daniela@smdp.com

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a man in connection with a number of reports of nails being scattered in the parking lots of aviation businesses at Santa Monica Airport.

Voters face revamped ballots and districts

Cops nail suspect in vandalism incident at SMO

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. California voters will confront a longer ballot with more choices as they head to the polls today for the first statewide primary featuring sweeping voterapproved election reforms.

A new top-two primary system and redrawn legislative and congressional districts are intended to blunt the influence of the two main political parties and lead to more competitive races involving more moderate candidates.

Tuesday’s voting will test those assumptions.

For the first time, an independent panel of citizens drew the boundaries for revamped legislative and congressional districts, and only the top two vote-getters in each race will advance to the November ballot, regardless of their political party.

That’s likely to create several hard-fought and expensive contests in the fall, including some that feature members of the same party and independents.

People registered to vote by mail already got a look at the new system when they opened their ballot and saw 24 candidates listed for U.S. Senate. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, is up for re-election this year but faces no serious challenger, despite the long roster of competitors.

While there is plenty of intrigue for political insiders, experts predict low voter turnout, likely less than 40 percent.

“I’m not worried about running out of ballots, if there’s something good to be said about that,” Contra Costa County Clerk

NABBED: Santa Monica police have arrested

BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer

SMO The Santa Monica Police Department

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Daniel Archuleta daniela@smdp.com A city-contracted work crew was clearing the future home of the Expo Light Rail line's terminus at the corner of Fourth Street and Colorado Avenue on Monday. Work has already begun on Colorado with the project expected to be completed in 2015.

arrested a Venice man caught throwing nails into the driveways of flight schools on Airport Avenue Thursday night.

An SMPD employee witnessed Jeremiah Kean Mayman, 31, throwing 1.5-inch roofing nails into the driveways as he rode by the flight schools on an 18-speed bicycle, said Sgt. Richard Lewis, spokesman for the department.

KEAN MAYMAN Officers arrested Kean Mayman for attempted felony vandalism. He was booked at 9:55 p.m. Thursday, and his bail was set at $20,000. He has since posted bail.

Attempts to contact him were unsuccessful.

Officers are continuing to investigate whether or not Kean Mayman is connected to six other occasions between late-March and mid-May in which similar-sized roofing nails appeared in the driveways of Justice Aviation, Krueger Aviation and American Flyers.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012 Planning Commission City Council Chambers 1685 Main St., 7 p.m.

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Vikings earn all-league honors

BY DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor

CITYWIDE The recently completed 2011-12 spring sports season was kind to athletes from Santa Monica High School.

The All-Ocean League boys’ volleyball selections include most of Samohi’s starting lineup.

Samohi, which won the league and eventually made it to the final of the CIFSouthern Section Division 4 playoffs last month before being eliminated just short of a second straight title, nabbed the Most Outstanding Player Award for Trevor Pye and Coach of the Year for Liane Sato.

The selections for all-league honors are made by the league’s coaches.

The first team included Ethan Kahan, Dane Keckin, Spencer Cramer and Julian Mickelson. There were also two Samohi Vikings on the second team. Seniors Jack Walther and Zack Leal rounded out the team’s honorees.

Samohi’s softball team, winners of the Ocean League 12 straight years, were similarly noticed. Sophomore pitcher Sara Garcia won the Most Valuable Player award and Dan Ramos was named Coach of the Year. For good measure, Samohi swept the top three awards by having infielder Kelly Ricard named the Most Outstanding Player.

“We really came together as a team this season,” said Head Coach Debbie Skaggs.

“I’m most proud of that.”

Skaggs, who returned to the team after a short-lived one-year retirement, said that the team’s young nucleus led by Garcia have the makings of something special.

Skaggs herself isn’t sure if she’s going to return, though. Her coaching days at Samohi stretch back 25 years, but she said that won’t play a factor in her decision.

“I’m in the middle right now,” Skaggs said.

Reflecting the Vikings’ young core, all of their all-league players are underclassmen.

The Vikings’ first team selections are sophomore first baseman Frankie Golick and junior shortstop Arielle Casillas.

The second team includes freshman catcher Annie Quine, freshman outfielder Carly Condon and junior outfielder Marissa Padilla.

The Vikings reached the second round of the softball playoffs this season.

The Ocean League selections in baseball include nine Vikings.

Topping the list for the second place finishers in league was junior shortstop Mason

Santa Monica teen dies on SoCal freeway ASSOCIATED PRESS HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. Investigators say a teenager standing next to a conked-out car on a Southern California freeway has been struck and killed by car with a drunken driver behind the wheel.

The Honda Civic hit the 13-year-old girl early Sunday on U.S. Route 60, the Pomona Freeway, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles in Hacienda Heights.

A 41-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy also standing next to the disabled Toyota Corolla were injured.

The names of the victims, all from Santa Monica, haven’t been released.

The California Highway Patrol arrested 28-year-old Tina Silva of Hacienda Heights has been arrested and booked for investigation of drunken driving. She had fled the crash scene and was tracked down by local police.

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PICKED: Samohi's Ethan Kahan (center) was named to the All-Ocean League First Team.

Landis, who was named Most Outstanding Player.

The first team had a total of four choices with senior pitcher/outfielder Adam Padilla making the team for the third straight season. He was joined by breakout junior infielder Nobu Suzuki, junior infielder Eric Gomez and junior pitcher

Connor Greene.

The second team includes junior third baseman Ryan Barbarin, sophomore outfielder Benny Arce and junior catcher Lino Lares.

Samohi was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

LOS ANGELES The Justice Department is sending monitors to three California counties to watch for possible voter discrimination during the primary election.

With voters headed to the polls Tuesday, the agency said that it will monitor voting places in Alameda, Fresno and Riverside counties for compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act. The act prohibits discrimination, intimidation or harassment in elections based on race or language.

The federal agency said Monday that Fresno and Riverside counties are required to provide voting assistance in Spanish.

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There’s always something Editor:

Electric cars may be good, but not completely the answer to all our problems.

As it is now, gasoline cars have greater range. And the recharge time for an electric car is not the few minutes it takes to fill up a gas tank. An electric car may be good for most people, especially as a second car. But if you want to go visit Aunt Martha in New York, you better have a gasoline car or be prepared to deal with the unpleasantness of train or bus travel, or the even more unpleasant airline travel you will have to do.

Suppose they manage to get the range up, and the recharge time down to a few minutes, and everybody has electric cars. All that electricity has to come from somewhere, and every power source has problems that someone will use to justify not using it.

Oil has pollution, unfriendly countries, BP and Exxon Valdez. Nuclear has terrorism potential, and an earthquake or an idiot like Homer Simpson could cause a meltdown.

Big dams ruin rivers and kill fish. Windmills kill birds.

Solar is costly and no good at night. Biofuels can cause food shortages if we do too much. Coal causes global warming and mining ruins the land. Natural gas — can you say fracking?

We could all go back to using horses, but that would leave another problem all over the streets.

Mike Kirwan Venice, Calif.

The best will never come Editor:

The recent event of this tragedy is another cross for this city to bear (“Groups want policy change after mountain lion death,” May 31). The actions that occurred only points [out] the non-professionalism of the authorities in a crisis.

Obviously the police and fire departments were not trained to handle a situation like this and it became worse when Fish and Game was added to the mix.

Why is it that when this cornered animal could have [been] netted, that SMPD, SMFD and Fish and Game failed to capture it?

This, however, is in line with past history here. The squirrels in Palisades Park were poisoned, and those who were trapped were fed to the raptors like a food chain. The ficus trees on Second and Fourth streets were cut down in order to beautify the area, which is now worse than it was before. Pigeons in Palisades Park were netted and removed because of their socalled “over population” and deprived the children of their adventure with nature.

It seems that crises here are a constant reminder that the best will never come and the worst will always be here.

Sally and Herb Silverstein Santa Monica

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Looking to the past for our future THE CULTURE OF SANTA MONICA IS

changing rapidly. As we evolve from sleepy little beachside town into a high-density, commercialized, corporate culture, we face two distinct realities.

The first reality is one part of our future.

It is being built by young men such as my neighbors who are taking full advantage of all that the Internet offers to create new opportunities for themselves and others.

Last July, three young men moved into the corner unit in my building. With their floppy hair and skinny jeans they looked more like a rock band than three entrepreneurs about to start a company.

In fact, they already started one that is called Organic Soul. It was an online magazine dedicated to helping its readers find healthy, organic products. As the readership grew so did a need for people to find and sample the products the magazine was highlighting.

So with a small loan from a true believer, and the boundless enthusiasm that comes with being 20-ish, Jameson Morris, Jesse Richardson and Bjorn Borstelmann set out to build a company called ConsciousBox. The three young men grew up together in Jackson Hole, Wyo. They each took different routes to Los Angeles and now find themselves together with the common purpose of carrying the healthy lifestyle to a greater audience.

They started ConsciousBox.com as an online provider of natural organic product samples that were delivered to people monthly. Each box contains products that have been mentioned in Organic Soul or been vetted by the ConsciousBox team. The healthy lifestyle products range from potions and lotions for healthy skin, to hot teas and snack bars. Each box contains somewhere between 10 and 20 different products.

The first boxes went out in the fall of 2011 and have been such a hit that each month there is a 30 percent increase in the number of boxes that are being sent out.

This company is doing so well that Forbes magazine listed them as one of the services that thrive by mail.

If you’d like to try ConsciousBox, the first 100 people that send an e-mail with a mailing address to Jameson@ConsciousBox.Com

will receive a free box.

So that’s very much the future of Santa Monica, small companies being started by enthusiastic young people using the Internet to reach out and build a customer base.

The second part of our future is a history we need to protect. History is more than just events that happened some time ago to people long dead and mostly forgotten. History is interwoven into our culture by the buildings that are built and the businesses that inhabit them.

For example, I work out every day (OK some days) at the Loews hotel on Ocean Avenue where I see the tremendous development that is going on. New city parks and new housing developments are surrounding buildings from our history like Chez Jay. It is a 50-year-old institution in our city. It is a restaurant that is history both inside and out.

A quick tour of the restaurant and you instantly feel at home, but if you look on the walls you’ll see Hollywood royalty has come here from the golden age of moviemaking.

This western watering hole was a frequent stop for Hollywood celebrities going to or coming from the beach.

The building itself is classical architecture of the period it was built in and is a museum of sorts. Decorations from the old Pacific Ocean Park Pier have been built into the building as a reminder of days gone by. The giant shell on the side of the building used to be on the Pacific Ocean Park Pier.

As the new development rises up around Chez Jay, it looks more and more like a living time capsule. But this needs to be part of our future as a reminder of what our past is. Our beach history, when life was more polite and less hectic, when our city was a bucolic place for relaxation. Slow cooked steaks and strong martinis meant time with friends over dinner.

Our future and our past are interwoven, and we should look at both of them with awe.

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Bill Bauer, David Pisarra, Meredith Carroll, Jack Neworth, Lloyd Garver, Ron Hooks, Taylor Van Arsdale, Merv Hecht, Cynthia Citron, Tom Viscount, Michael Ryan, JoAnne Barge, Katrina Davy

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Eat your heart out San Juan Capistrano!

Unlike those fickle swallows of song, Santa Monicans can set their clocks to the reliable arrival of June Gloom.

Yours in grayness,

Kevin Shine Santa Monica

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In the old days, the “buy and hold” strategy was what most investors did. A very successful advisor I knew, who handled millions for Arab billionaires, used one strategy; he only bought large company stocks that had paid a dividend each year for the proceeding 10 years, and had increased the dividend a certain percentage during that period. That strategy worked well until the hi-tech period, then it lagged the results of the competitive advisors terribly.

But of course the advisors that got into hi-tech stocks only did well for awhile, then lost their butts when the bubble burst.

I too have fallen prey to these errors. I had Lehman Brothers bonds, now worthless. I had AIG stock, and Citicorp, now worth a fraction of what I paid. And I paid up to $45 a share for some of my Walgreen stock, which I should have sold long ago but still hold, through inertia — although the covered call premiums are good.

Having been burnt several times with the “buy good quality stocks” investment method, I changed my strategy. I don’t buy to hold. I buy to sell at a profit. And I buy to collect dividends and option premiums. I want to live well now, not hope the companies are doing well 10 years from now. Who would have guessed that the steel industry would disappear in the U.S.? Who knows if people will use Windows 10 years from now and Microsoft will still be in business?

Also, I find option writing fun — a combination of bridge and chess, where you have negative inferences like bridge, and need to look several moves ahead like chess.

One way to try to outguess the market is by trying to benefit no matter which way it goes. One way to do that is by writing what we call a “butterfly spread.” In that strategy we sell a put below the current market price of an index, and sell a call above the current price of the index. The typical index for this strategy is the “SPY” which is based on the S&P 500. This is a basket of 500 stocks, so it

is well diversified, which means that even if one of the companies has a disaster, like AIG, it won’t have that big of an effect on the overall performance of the index. Nor will a change in any one industry, like the automotive industry, affect the index that much.

By selling an option on both sides of the current index price we pick up two premiums, one for the put and one for the call.

Typically we select a short period of time, such as 30 days for these options, and select a price for each about 10 percent away from the current index price.

Naturally, since the market can either go up, down, or stay the same, one of two results are possible. If the index does not end up more than 10 percent up or down after 30 days, I get to keep both premiums and the options expire. But if the market does move more than 10 percent, it can only have moved in one of the two possible directions, so I certainly will get to keep one of the premiums, and the only question is if the market moved so far in the other direction that my loss in that direction is greater than the gain from the premium in the other direction.

Simple, no? Well, not quite because there is a bit more to the story. I never take unlimited risks. So to protect myself against that, at the outset I buy one hedge on the downside, and one hedge on the upside. To do that I have to pay out some of the premium I received. So I make a lot less than if I were not hedged. But with this “put spread” on the down side, and “call spread” on the upside, my risk is limited both ways.

Option writing is a statistical game. A certain number of times each year the S&P index will move more than 10 percent in a 30 day period. Most of the time it will not. I expect to keep my premiums on these “butterfly spreads” more than 70 percent of the time, but lose money perhaps 30 percent of the time. It’s not a big hit, but it’s a very predictable profit statistically over time. But not as much time as if I bought to hold.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES California students are increasingly being courted by out-of-state colleges seeking to take advantage of cutbacks and rising tuition at the Golden State’s public universities.

The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that schools in neighboring states are stepping up recruitment of California high school students, touting special discounts, small classes and course availability.

The push comes at a time when the University of California and California State University systems are struggling with repeated state funding cuts — $1.6 billion over the past decade — that have caused them to hike tuition, cap enrollment and slash programs.

A recent report by the Public Policy Institute of California found that the number of the state’s high school graduates enrolling in UC and CSU dropped from about 22 percent in 2007 to about 18 percent in 2010. UC also is filling seats with more international and out-of-state students who pay higher tuition than resident students.

Current UC and CSU students complain that even if they gain admission and pay increasing fees, they cannot take the courses they need to graduate on time because of cuts in faculty and programs.

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“The gold rush is on, and in this case the gold rush is for college-going students,” the University of Oregon’s Roger Thompson, vice provost of enrollment management, told the Times.

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LOS ANGELES The city of Los Angeles is violating the county health code for hazardous conditions on Skid Row, including nearly 90 rats’ nests, a dozen hypodermic needles and piles of human excrement and trash on sidewalks, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found.

The notice of violation stems from an extensive Health Department inspection last month of the 10-block area of downtown Los Angeles that houses the nation’s densest population of homeless people, most of them mentally ill and substance abusers.

Health officials ordered the city to fix the problems by this week and made other recommendations to help keep the neighborhood sanitary on an ongoing basis.

The inspection was made at the request of the city attorney’s office as it gathers evidence in a bid to overturn a federal judge’s order last year prohibiting the seizure of homeless people’s property from sidewalks.

The city says the order is making it difficult to clean up the area as sanitation workers are not sure what is personal property and what is trash. Meanwhile, nearby businesses and residents have complained about the proliferation of furniture and shopping carts and people living in tents.

“The deposits on sidewalks have reached a crisis point,” said Jane Usher, special assistant city attorney.

Sanitation workers have been intensely cleaning the neighborhood to remedy the violations, she said.

The May 21 report to the city attorney’s office contained little news to Skid Row community advocates, but highlighted the precarious conditions in the neighborhood, where some 800 people bed down on sidewalks nightly and 3,000 others cram into shelters and special housing.

The report said the area’s crowded,

unsanitary conditions made it a high risk for communicable disease, and noted four cases of meningococcal disease cropped up in March 2011.

Inspectors found 88 rats’ nests, mostly around street planters, people living in 57 tents on sidewalks — some with animals — and human waste scattered on the eight of 10 blocks surveyed. On one block alone, 29 piles of excrement were noted.

People also were disposing of human waste, including vomit and buckets of urine, in storm drains.

Inspectors found 13 hypodermic needles strewn on the ground, and disposable rubber gloves tucked under tree roots.

The report recommended the city install more trash cans and public toilets, provide soap, water and hand basins, and step up waste collection. Noting the desperate condition of many residents, inspectors also recommended increasing efforts to get more social services to people.

The city must implement a vermin control program in the area and monitor for hypodermic needle litter, the report said.

Homeless advocates, who have long decried the city’s neglect of Skid Row, said the violations are a black eye for the city.

Attorney Carol Sobel, who sued the city over the destruction of homeless people’s property, said providing toilets, trash bins and soap to people has nothing to do with confiscating people’s belongings, including important papers and medications, without warning.

“This really is a condemnation of the city,” she said. “The county is saying, ‘Come out and clean it.’”

Residents said they hoped it would be more than a onetime effort.

“I’ve been trying to get the county Public Health Department out here for years,” said Skid Row activist Jeff Page, who goes by General Jeff. “It’s not like Skid Row suddenly got dirty and infected. It’s always been like this. But at least it’s something.”

FROM PAGE 1 Steve Weir said Monday. Election officials were also coping with an unusual phenomenon for a June election in California — rain.

Some of the hottest contests are those in which candidates of the same party are vying to meet again in November.

Several incumbent Democrats are locked in heated contests against one another in two redrawn Los Angeles-area congressional districts. Reps. Janice Hahn and Laura Richardson have divided support, and Reps.

Howard Berman and Brad Sherman are seeking to finish in the top two and move on to November. They were forced to compete against one another after the commission merged parts of the districts that each currently represents.

Nine of the state’s 53 congressional districts have no incumbent on the ballot, and the open seats have lured dozens of contenders to those races. Democrats hope to pick up as many as six seats in California and have been working to register more voters in traditionally Republican-leaning areas of the Central Valley and the Inland Empire region of Southern California.

Democrats also are aiming to win a supermajority in the state Senate thanks to newly redrawn districts. But they are unlikely to cross that threshold in the Assembly, meaning tax and fee increases could not be passed without GOP votes.

Republicans are making runs at some incumbent Democrats. In the San Joaquin Valley, Ricky Gill, a well-financed 25-year-

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Voters will decide just two ballot measures Tuesday, after the Legislature passed a law saying all future initiatives must appear on general election ballots.

Proposition 28 asks voters if they want to alter California’s legislative term limits, which were approved by voters in 1990. The measure would reduce the total number of years lawmakers can serve in the Legislature from 14 to 12, but it would allow them to serve all of that time in one house. The current term limits are among the strictest in the nation. Three, two-year terms can be served in the 80-member Assembly, and two, four-year terms in the 40-member Senate.

Voters also are being asked to add a $1a-pack tax to cigarettes to help fund cancer research and anti-smoking campaigns. The measure is backed by cycling legend and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong.

Opponents, including tobacco companies, have poured more than $46 million into their campaign, compared with the $12 million raised by supporters.

Voter registration figures released Friday showed Democrats continue to have the largest share of California’s 17.1 million registered voters at 43 percent, while Republican registration has slipped to 30 percent.

The fastest-growing segment of the electorate — now more than 21 percent — is comprised of voters who are not affiliated with any political party.

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PAYING UP: A woman feeds a parking meter on Ocean Avenue recently.

PARKING FROM PAGE 1 Library and the Civic Center near the entrance to Interstate 10.

Even parking meters will see an increase from 75 cents an hour to a full dollar in most of the city, with even larger increases in Downtown and by the beach.

Long-term parking in Downtown structures would for the first time be split into categories, with cheaper passes for weekdayonly parking and more expensive passes for the right to park anytime, anywhere.

Once again, both the Civic Center and Main Library lots would either hold steady or decrease in cost.

Perhaps the most controversial change is the plan to begin charging $1 for each of the first three hours that a person parks in the Downtown structures. Traditionally, the first two hours are free, and then the driver racks up $1 per hour until they hit the daily maximum of $9.

Under the new plan, the rate increases to $3 an hour after the first three hours with a $12 daily maximum.

In contrast, both the Main Library and the Civic Center will let people park for free for the first half hour, and then charge $1 for each hour after that with a daily maximum of $5.

That’s half of the current $10 maximum at the Main Library and $9 at the Civic Center.

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The plan also calls for more expensive parking at the three beach lots and at the Santa Monica Pier. Under the new plan, summer rates would have one maximum rate regardless of whether you park on a weekday or weekend. That’s a departure from the current system which makes weekday parking cheaper.

Officials from the Finance Department have been taking the plan on the road to show it to business groups like the Main Street Merchants Association, which represents business owners on Main Street, and Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., a public-private partnership that manages Downtown.

For the most part, people have been fairly accepting of the plan, if not altogether warm toward it, Patterson said.

Business owners with retail stores in Downtown are lobbying to keep some period of free time so that customers will happily stop by, while others more impacted by the increased charges at meters were happy that new rates would mean more turnover for street parking.

“We want to get all of the input and then tweak it,” Patterson said. “Once we have all of the input, we can see what the emerging trends are.”

The group will pow-wow this week to determine if there are any changes they’d like to make, and then there’s one more planned pit stop at the Neighborhood Council, a monthly meeting of neighborhood group leaders to hear their reactions.

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ARREST FROM PAGE 1 Monica Airport. Krueger Aviation buys and sells airplanes, but has a sign on the front of the business that suggests that it doubles as a flight school.

Despite the fact that an estimated 600 to 700 nails were dropped in the first six occurrences, only one Krueger Aviation customer discovered a popped tire.

Ken Krueger, owner of Krueger Aviation, was thrilled to hear that a suspect had been apprehended in the case.

“They caught him and that’s good,” Krueger said.

According to the police, the first report of nails appearing in the driveways of flight schools was taken on April 18. By that time, employees and others had found nails on the premises two other times, but hadn’t yet reported it.

It occurred again on May 8, May 10 and May 18. No more nails showed up until May 31, when Kean Mayman was arrested.

Business owners feared that whomever spread the nails was targeting flight schools, which have been front and center in the public dialogue as planning begins for the future of Santa Monica Airport.

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The number of flights, particularly “pattern flying” which sends beginning pilots in a box pattern over neighborhoods for multiple loops to practice takeoffs and landings, aggravates neighbors who complain that the planes are both loud and burn leaded gas.

City Hall has floated a plan to subsidize flight schools to take their pattern flying to other general aviation airports that aren’t surrounded by residents to reduce the number of flights over homes.

Members of various groups that have expressed opposition to flight school operations in the past came out harshly condemning the attempted vandalism, reaffirming that any issues should be dealt with through the public process.

The case is still under investigation.

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Poll: Political independents outweigh partisan voters JENNIFER AGIESTA Associated Press

WASHINGTON Call it a pox on both the Republican and Democratic houses.

More Americans now call themselves politically independent than at any point in the last 75 years, according to a new poll. The survey also shows that those who do align themselves with a party are more ideological and have become more polarized than at any point in the last 25 years, particularly on issues important in this year’s presidential and congressional campaigns.

Party loyalty, however, only goes so far; neither Republicans nor Democrats say their own party is doing a good job standing up for its traditional positions.

Five months before the November elections, the Pew

Research Center poll released Monday sheds light on how the electorate feels about the nation’s two major political parties. And sour seems to be an understatement.

The results indicate a collective thumbs down to both the Democratic and Republican Party, showing that an unprecedented 38 percent of adults rejected both parties and call themselves independents. Only 32 percent now say they are Democrats and 24 percent now call themselves Republicans.

This flight away from the two major political parties began in 2008, a time of intense partisanship as President Barack Obama battled Republican Sen. John McCain for the White House.

Then as now, independent voters are a critical constituency that candidates must win over to prevail in competitive general elections.

Exit polls show these voters have sided with the winning

candidate in all but two of the past 10 presidential elections.

Independents broke for Obama, 52 percent to 44 percent for McCain four years ago. And recent polling suggests independents are about evenly divided now between Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican rival.

Independent voters also have been on the winning side in congressional contests eight out of nine times since the 1994 election, when Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

So both Republicans and Democrats are making serious plays to win them over.

The survey found that the face of the independent voter also is changing, posing challenges for Democrats.

More Hispanic and younger voters — key Democratic voting blocs — say they are politically independent and Republicans are aggressively courting them.

Hispanics who describe themselves as independents have jumped from 31 percent in 2006 to 46 percent now. And nearly half of Americans born since 1981 now say they are independents.

To be sure, 56 percent of Americans still identify themselves as a member of either the Democratic or the Republican parties.

But the parties are pushing out those in the ideological middle.

The vast majority of Republicans, 68 percent, say they are conservative, up from 60 percent in 2000. And the conservative Democrat has become scarce as the share of selfdescribed liberals in the party has grown 10 points since 2000, from 28 percent to 38 percent. As the moderates abandon both parties, the poll finds partisans’ views on the major issues in this year’s campaign have become more deeply polarized since the Pew Center first measured those views in 1987.

The poll measured opinions on 48 different questions about basic political values, and found Democrats and Republicans farther apart than at any point since 1987.

The sharpest differences between partisans fall mostly on the issues at the core of this year’s campaign regarding government’s role and effectiveness: whether regulation helps or hurts business, how involved government should be in people’s lives and whether government programs are effective or wasteful. Sharp differences also centered on the question of how much of a “social safety net” government should provide — whether government should make sure every citizen’s basic needs are met or take care of those in need even if it means more debt.

Shifting opinions on these issues are not limited to core partisans: Independents who lean toward either Republicans or Democrats are also more sharply polarized from each other than they were 25 years ago, particularly on how much government should do and how effective it is.

Obama holds a slim edge over Romney in the poll, 49 percent to 45 percent, among registered voters, and the results suggest the sharpest divides between Romney and Obama supporters are over the role and effectiveness of government.

About one-fourth of voters are “swing voters,” or those who are not firmly committed to a candidate. Ideologically, this group is closer to Romney on the social safety net, but closer to Obama on social issues and questions about labor unions. They fall about evenly between the two on the role of government.

The poll also found a liberal shift on social issues in recent decades, with fewer saying they hold old-fashioned values about family and marriage, or the role of women.

The Pew Research Center 2012 Values Survey was conducted by telephone April 4-15 among a random national sample of 3,008 adults. Interviews were conducted by live interviews and respondents were reached on landline and cellular telephones. The margin of sampling error for results based on all interviews is plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.

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U.S. economic outlook darkens after jobs report CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON Faced with a fizzling job market, many economists have turned more pessimistic and no longer think U.S. economic growth will accelerate later this year.

Friday’s surprisingly bleak jobs report for May followed a spate of weak U.S. economic data last week. Manufacturing activity slowed, an index of home contracts fell and consumer confidence tumbled. Mounting troubles in Europe and elsewhere have heightened economists’ concerns.

Julia Coronado, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York, said she now expects growth of 2.2 percent this year, down from her previous forecast of 2.4 percent. She also revised down her estimate of growth in the April-June quarter to a 2.2 percent annual rate, from a 2.5 percent rate.

“We keep hoping that we’re going to turn a corner and move into a stronger phase of recovery, and the door keeps getting slammed shut,” Coronado said.

After the jobs report Friday, JPMorgan Chase sharply reduced its growth forecast for the July-September quarter to a 2 percent annual rate, down from 3 percent. It cited the weaker U.S. hiring and a likely drop in U.S. exports related to slower growth overseas.

And JPMorgan Chase now forecasts growth of 2.1 percent for 2012, down from 2.3 percent.

Forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers and Swiss bank UBS have also marked down their expectations since Friday’s jobs report.

As a general rule, it takes about 2.5 percent growth to generate enough hiring to keep up with population growth and prevent the unemployment rate from rising.

The reduced forecasts suggest that hiring may not strengthen much this year.

After months of fitful expansion since the recession ended three years ago, many analysts had expected the economy to begin strengthening steadily.

Last month, the National Association for Business Economics said its latest survey of economists found rising expectations for job gains and housing construction. And in April, the Federal Reserve raised its forecast for growth this year to nearly 2.7 percent, from a January estimate of 2.5 percent.

Now, it looks as if the recovery is stumbling again.

The biggest blow was Friday’s jobs report.

It said employers added only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year. The government also said far fewer jobs were added in the previous two months than first thought — 11,000 fewer in March and 38,000 fewer in April. And the unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent, the first increase since last June.

Less hiring means fewer Americans have money to spend. That holds down consumer spending, which drives about 70 percent of

the economy and helps fuel job growth. And a rising unemployment rate tends to reduce confidence. That can further shrink spending.

Even at stronger levels of hiring, Americans’ incomes had been already growing only weakly. They increased 0.2 percent in April, the government said last week, the slowest pace in five months.

Other reports last week showed that more people sought unemployment benefits, a sign that hiring could remain sluggish.

Construction spending rose, but by less than many economists had forecast. And the government said the economy expanded at an anemic 1.9 percent annual rate in the first three months of 2012. That’s down from 3 percent in the fourth quarter.

The run of bleak reports extended into Monday. Companies cut their orders to factories for a second straight month, the government said. And a gauge of business investment plans fell.

On top of that, Europe’s financial crisis is worsening. Worries are growing that in elections later this month, Greek voters will reject the terms of a bailout and lead the country to drop the euro. That could ignite financial chaos and perhaps force larger economies among the 17 countries that use the euro, such as Spain and Italy, to abandon the currency, too.

The resulting crisis would slow U.S. exports, about 20 percent of which go to Europe. Fear about a collapse of the euro has contributed to a nearly 10 percent drop in the S&P 500 stock index since April 2.

Falling stock prices tend to damage consumer confidence and reduce spending.

Key developing countries, such as China, India and Brazil, are also reporting weaker growth. Those countries are big markets for U.S. heavy machinery. U.S. farmers also export corn, soybeans and other grains to China.

“You’ve got deterioration on all fronts at this point,” said Scott Anderson, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities.

Anderson said Wells Fargo will likely reduce its forecasts for U.S. growth.

Still, some trends remain positive for the U.S. economy. Gas prices have been falling, which puts more money in Americans’ pockets. With mortgage rates at record lows, more Americans are buying homes. Builders have increased spending on construction.

Auto sales are up.

Maury Harris, chief U.S. economist at UBS, said the weak May jobs report shows businesses are nervous about the economic outlook.

Yet consumers remain willing to spend. Their spending rose 0.3 percent in April, above the 0.2 percent rise in March. That qualifies as a bright spot in last week’s reports. Harris expects consumer spending to keep rising and to reinvigorate business activity by fall.

Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist at the National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, says he’s sticking with the group’s annual retail sales growth forecast of 3.4 percent for now.

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DO NOT T WITHHOLD D RENT Under certain limited circumstances, a tenant may withhold rent. But, it is never a good idea to withhold rent. If a tenant does not pay the full rent, when due, the landlord would most likely serve the tenant with a three day notice to pay or quit.

Once a three day notice to pay or quit expires, the landlord does not have to accept the money even if the tenant offers the full amount.The landlord can refuse the payment and proceed with an unlawful detainer action (eviction case).

An unlawful detainer action is very stressful.Also, the tenant would have the expense of litigation costs and probably attorney fees.A tenant does not have to retain an attorney to defend an unlawful detainer action, but it would be very wise to do so.

If a tenant loses an unlawful detainer case, the tenant would be evicted and owe all of the back rent and possibly the landlord’s attorney fees and litigation costs. Further, the unlawful detainer judgment would probably appear on the tenant’s credit reports as well as reports kept by landlord agencies which could make it difficult to rent a new home in the future.

For all of the above reasons, a tenant should never withhold any rent.

GIVE E LANDLORD D A LIST T IN N WRITING The first thing a tenant should do is give the landlord a list in writing of items which need to be repaired.The list should be hand-delivered or mailed to the landlord.The tenant must keep a copy of that list and keep track of when and how the list was delivered to the landlord (the specific date when the list was mailed or hand-delivered).

A tenant must give the landlord a reasonable period to make repairs.What is a “reasonable period”is defined on a case by case basis.Usually,a tenant should give the landlord 30 days to make repairs.But,if the condition is serious (i.e.:no electricity, no hot water,hole in the roof),a reasonable time would be much shorter.

A tenant should list all items which need repair, in detail.

Failure to notify the landlord of a specific problem may prevent a tenant from being compensated later for the defective condition.

CONTACT T GOVERNMENT T INSPECTORS If the landlord does not make the repairs within a reasonable period, the tenant should contact appropriate government inspectors.

In Santa Monica, the first office to be contacted should be the Santa Monica Code Compliance Department: (310) 458-4984.

The Code Compliance Department will not come to a rental unit to perform a general inspection.The tenant must have a specific list of items which need repair.

In addition to the Code Compliance

Department, a tenant should call the County of Los Angeles Department of Health Services.To arrange for an inspection, a Santa Monica tenant would call: (310) 665-8484.

The advantage of government inspectors is that the government agency may order the landlord to make repairs.Also, if the tenant is in trial with the landlord (or a hearing with the Santa Monica Rent Control Board), the government inspectors’ reports may be admissible as evidence.

PETITION N FOR R RENT T DECREASE E If the landlord does not make the required repairs, a tenant may file a petition for rent decrease.The petition is filed with the Santa Monica Rent Control Board, located in Santa Monica City Hall, 1685 Main Street, Room 202, Santa Monica, CA 90401; (310) 458-8751.The petition for rent decrease may be filed 30 to 180 days after service of the written notice to the landlord of items which need repair.

If the petition is granted, the rent will be reduced. But, the rent reduction is prospective (from that point forward).The Rent Control Board does not have the authority to award any money to compensate the tenant for past conditions or reduced services.

SMALL L CLAIMSS COURT T If a tenant wishes to be compensated for the defective conditions or reduced services in the past, the tenant would have to file a lawsuit.A suit could be filed in superior court.Although an attorney is not required for superior court, it is likely that the landlord would retain an attorney.When one party has an attorney and the other does not, it is a big advantage. If the tenant retains an attorney, the expenses might make such a suit in superior court impractical.

Usually, the most economical way to proceed is to file a lawsuit in small claims court.A person can sue in small claims court for up to $7,500.00.And, there are no attorneys in small claims court.Thus, the expenses are greatly reduced.

CONSULT T WITH H AN N ATTORNEY Even if the tenant is not going to retain an attorney on a fulltime basis, it is usually a good idea to at least have a consultation with a tenants’ rights attorney, especially before filing suit in small claims court or filing a petition for rent decrease.

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BELLEFONTE, Pa. A simple question could be the key to the case against Jerry Sandusky: Will the young men who contend the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused them be viewed as credible witnesses?

Legal experts say that’s often the case in criminal trials, but even more in a case with allegations that go back many years and little or no forensic evidence.

“In any case I’ve tried like this, the people who are the accusers have to come across exceedingly well,” said veteran Harrisburg defense attorney Matt Gover. “And the defense has to demonstrate a theory to the jury that there’s motive for them to lie or fabricate.”

Jury selection in Sandusky’s trial is to begin Tuesday morning in a central Pennsylvania courtroom.

Prosecutors allege Sandusky engaged in a range of sexual abuse of 10 boys over 15 years, charges he has repeatedly denied.

Eight of those 10 alleged victims have been identified by investigators, and most, if not all, had been prepared to take the stand at Sandusky’s preliminary hearing, which he waived at the last minute in midDecember.

Sandusky’s lawyers have sought potentially damaging material from the alleged victims’ pasts, including any history of making up stories, criminal arrests and psychological problems.

The defense will have their grand jury testimony to compare against whatever they say on the stand at trial, and have indicated they will try to show some of the accusers have collaborated, hoping to cash in through civil litigation.

“Joe Amendola has said during some of the hearings that the defense is going to turn on a claim that some, if not all, of these victims had motives to fabricate these allegations,” said Wes Oliver, a law professor at Widener University School of Law in Pennsylvania.

John E.B. Myers, a law professor at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento and author or editor of eight books on child abuse, said the core issues in the Sandusky case are the same as many others.

“I think the overall issue is and always has been the child’s credibility,” he said, adding that the issue of memory will come into play,

since the alleged victims are now adults.

Legal and scientific research also shows an interesting fact about juries in abuse cases, Myers said. “The one thing the literature is clear about is that women tend to believe children more than men do,” he said.

The sex abuse case led Penn State’s board of trustees to fire the legendary Joe Paterno as head football coach; leaders later said he hadn’t done enough after he fielded an abuse allegation from a team assistant. The university’s president was also ousted, and two administrators were charged with lying to a grand jury. At word of Paterno’s firing, students rioted in the streets of State College, and Paterno’s treatment remains a sore spot for many alumni and fans.

The expected testimony of Mike McQueary, an assistant coach who was a graduate assistant a decade ago when he says he witnessed what appeared to be Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy, could be a critical part of the prosecution’s case.

Sandusky’s lawyers will undoubtedly try to undercut his credibility through the use of his grand jury testimony, his testimony at a hearing in the related perjury case of the two university administrators, and statements about what he saw at the time and in the intervening years.

Prosecutors recently had to amend the charges against Sandusky to allege that the incident McQueary said he saw occurred in February 2001, not in March 2002 as previously indicated.

“One of the real questions, it seems to me, that the prosecution has to face is whether they put McQueary on” the stand, Oliver said. “If the jury is left with the impression that the independent witness is making up stuff, then why would people who stand to benefit from this not make stuff up?”

The attorney general’s office will have to counter any contradictions or gaps in their witnesses’ memories with a demonstration that they do recall the heart of the matter — the alleged criminal acts for which Sandusky will be on trial, said David A. Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor. The existence of multiple accusers should help prosecutors, he said.

“View it as silt in a riverbed,” Harris said.

“Their testimony will build up in layers. So even if there are individual problems with the testimony of particular witnesses, the picture will fill in as a whole.”

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Happy birthday

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Parkin improbably stayed in character, according to a trial dispatch on the Daily Beast, and jurors apparently kept straight faces as Parkin testified that recent "communications" between him and his mother were "mostly one-sided."

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