WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006
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Daily Press Staff Writer
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A newspaper with issues
Former SM Mayor claims inner-circle politics were at fault
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD SHEPARD
In April, Elgin, Ill., police said they gave confidential informant Robert Bridges, 29, $300 to buy 7 grams of cocaine and sent him into a drug house for a sting, but later they got tired of waiting for him to leave, and they stormed the house. Inside, they found Bridges, intoxicated, with no money and only 2.8 grams of cocaine left.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 179th day of 2006. There are 186 days left in the year. On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist — the event that triggered World War I. In 1491, England’s King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich. In 1778, “Molly Pitcher” (Mary Ludwig Hays) carried water to American soldiers at the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, N.J.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.”
HELEN MERRELL LYND
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST AND EDUCATOR
INDEX Horoscopes Share your feelings, Taurus
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 62°
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Opinion War? What is it good for?
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Photo courtesy Former City Councilman Mike Feinstein appeared on C-SPAN during a July 2001 meeting at Green Party headquarters in Santa Monica.
City Hall looks to unlock free parking
Embattled former City Councilman Mike Feinstein has been cleared of any wrongdoing by his political party, of which some members accused him of misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars intended for the Los Angeles County Green Party. For the past five years, Feinstein
has been fighting accusations within the state Green Party and has been subject to investigations by the Santa Monica Police Department, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office and the California Fair Political Practices Commission, which polices political contributions. None of the investigations resulted in action against Feinstein. At issue was previously untracked
money given by donors that Feinstein used to open a Green Party office at 2809 Pico Blvd. After Feinstein deposited a $10,000 check intended for the Los Angeles Green Party by former member Bill Pietz in January of 2001, Feinstein said he had used the money for Green Party business, specifically for the Santa See FEINSTEIN, page 5
Wheel of misfortune
BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN — An investigation by City Hall has found that offstreet parking in downtown is not as accessible as it could be, something which could be fixed with better signs alerting drivers as to where the free parking is and how to open security gates protecting what’s inside. The investigation looked at four, new mixed-use developments along the 1500 block of Sixth Street that include residential and commercial space. Developers of those projects are required to provide free, offstreet parking for every commercial
State Dust settles on man’s gold rush
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Community Safety Officer Stella Padilla on Tuesday morning investigates the scene of an accident between a motorist and bicyclist on Ocean Avenue just south of Pico Boulevard. The bicyclist was taken to a local hospital for minor injuries. The accident is under investigation.
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Real Estate Real Estate a complicated fixture 10
National VA asks for funds to help victims 13
International Militants report on kidnapee
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Comics Yak it up, yakmeister
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
MOVIETIMES Catch a flick!
Condo building just got more expensive; lawsuit expected
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CITYWIDE — Keith Hagaman was planning to build eight townhouses north of Wilshire Boulevard, but ever since the City Council approved new affordable housing require-
ments for developers, he’s been having second thoughts. The problem: No more in-lieu fees. Instead, developers have to build affordable housing. They can no longer pay into a City Hall fund. Hagaman planned to pay a fee of $26.08 per square foot of development
to cover the affordable housing requirements that comes with building condos and townhouses in Santa Monica. That’s no longer an option under changes to the requirements, passed by the council earlier this month to comply with Proposition R, a local law mandating that 30 percent of all
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housing built each year be affordable. Hagaman will now have to set aside at least 20 percent of the units he builds for moderate-income buyers. If he chooses to build the affordable housing off-site, which would See HOUSING, page 6