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CITY HALL Gleam Davis may not have Michael Jordan and Larry Bird on her side, but, at least in Santa Monica politics, she’s got a pair that’s just as potent: Former mayor and one-time Chamber of Commerce president Nat Trives and

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BY DAILY PRESS STAFF AIRPORT COURTHOUSE A judge Tuesday increased bail to $3.5 million for a Thousand Oaks woman charged with murdering an aspiring model and actress in Santa Monica in March, 2008.

Kelly Soo Park, 44, had been jailed on $1 million bail before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz made his ruling, according to Shiara Davila-Morales of the District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors had asked last month for Park’s bail to be increased to $5 million.

Park is accused in the killing of Juliana Redding, 21, who was found dead on March 16, 2008, in her apartment after her mother called police when she could not reach her daughter.

In court papers filed last month, the case’s SEE BAIL PAGE 8

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Special ed parents upset over closure

BY KEVIN HERRERA Editor in Chief

LINCOLN BLVD Parents of children with autism who attend Pine Street Preschool will tell people straight away that the collection of four makeshift classrooms is not the most aesthetically appealing learning environment in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.

The true beauty of Pine Street is what happens inside. The three teachers, their roughly 15 students with special needs and the parents have formed a caring and compassionate community and a system that produces results. The proof is in the pupils.

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O’Connell and other Pine Street parents, past and present, can’t say the same thing for district administrators who are shutting down the preschool after more than 10 successful years to make room for the expansion of Olympic High School.

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At least one parent has threatened to sue the district because of the closure, which she believes will have a negative impact on her son.

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LYNWOOD Hitting bottom under Hollywood’s glare, Lindsay Lohan began serving jail time Tuesday for a probation violation that underlined the starlet’s inability to put a 2006 drug case behind her.

LOHAN Incongruously — or maybe not given the media frenzy surrounding her personal drama — someone showered the actress and the crowd with a blast of confetti outside the Beverly Hills courthouse as she walked in to surrender with dozens of cameras following her.

Two weeks after sobbing at her sentencing, Lohan was more composed but nervous Tuesday, fidgeting with her hair in court as she waited to begin serving her time for violating probation. The judge ordered the cameras off for the moment a bailiff handcuffed the 24-year-old and whisked her into a lockup cell.

Her estranged father, Michael, shouted in court, “We love you, Lindsay!”

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel sentenced the “Mean Girls” star to 90 days in jail, three months in rehab and increased scrutiny by probation officials on July 6 after determining the actress violated her probation by missing seven alcohol education classes since December. Sheriff ’s officials said Lohan will end up serving only about two weeks behind bars because of jail overcrowding and anticipated credits for good behavior.

After Tuesday’s brief court hearing, news helicopters chronicled her ride in an unmarked sheriff ’s cruiser to a suburban women’s jail about half an hour away. The helicopters surrounded the facility as Lohan entered through a side entrance. Clusters of camera crews awaited Lohan’s arrival inside marked areas surrounded by yellow sheriff ’s tape on the grass in front of the county jail, which is located next to a busy freeway in a blue-collar area.

Lohan will serve significantly longer than

SAMOHI With the school year quickly approaching, the search is on to find a replacement for long-time softball coach Debbie Skaggs.

After leading Santa Monica High School’s softball team to its first-ever California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section championship in the sport this past season, Skaggs left the team after 24 years at the helm.

Replacing a campus fixture like Skaggs, who will stay at the school as a teacher, won’t be easy, but new Samohi Athletic Director Daniel Escalera said he’s busy trying to find a suitable replacement.

“It would be nice to find somebody on campus who is experienced and qualified,” Escalera said. “We’d love to keep it in house.”

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Don’t dump on mobile home residents Editor: Dear Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, Approximately 140 residents of all ages live only 150 feet directly down wind from the Southern California Disposal garbage transfer facility which drops of raw garbage daily on an open-air, 12-foot platform facing Mountain View Mobile Home Park’s back fence.

Please urge City Hall to make SCD enclose its garbage transferring. City Hall saw fit to enclose its own garbage transferring and is building a state-of-theart, multi-purpose enclosed recycling/garbage/hazardous waste disposal facility. City Hall now transfers 400 tons a day, and will enclose their garbage, so why not SCD when they are right in back of us and transfer 2.5 times more!

City Hall should investigate cancer deaths in our park as related to the toxic air which daily flows over Mountain View.

I have spoken out at neighborhood meetings, I have written and e-mailed to the City Council and other city officials. Since City Hall is silent regarding the SCD open-air garbage situation which we renters at Mountain View face every weekday, I strongly urge Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights to investigate and represent us.

Randy Walburger Santa Monica

Parking hike is a shame Editor: You don’t think raising the parking rates Downtown from $7 to $9 is a big deal? It’s utterly offensive to come work in Santa Monica and pay that much to work.

Santa Monica is getting way too greedy and even though I was born here, it makes me want to move. How dare you treat the locals and employees like this. The more you steal money out of our pockets, we will try harder to get around it. Some of us employees don’t “move our cars every two hours.” I pay $7 a night to work, five nights a week. That’s $1,820 a year you just lost from a local resident and employee. The people will always prevail when they feel fed up and taken advantage of. I already found a way to park for free now, which is something I would have never done if I wasn’t so truly offended. You should be ashamed of yourself, really.

Rene Henry Santa Monica

Stop the oil addiction Editor: It is time that we wean ourselves from the destructive force of oil and employ our people in the vastly important goal of energy self reliance. It has already been proven to be a feasible and affordable goal and will generate new jobs, rescue the middle class and unemployed as well as give the biosphere a chance to process all the assault upon her in the past few decades, notwithstanding the recent oil spill disaster.

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THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS

country today: those who can earn money overseas and everybody else. While some of us are able to capitalize on the opportunities presented in other markets, hundreds of millions of our fellow Americans make all their money here, where they live. Those of us whose income is based exclusively in these United States now count ourselves as lucky if we have a job, a house, and a health insurance policy. If we have the same position, same address, and same coverage we had two years ago, we’re practically lottery winners.

That’s because the Great Recession of 2008 has taught any American who actually works for a living to narrow his or her focus from prosperity to just plain survival.

Not so much for corporate America, which, partly due to its ability to make money in other places, is doing better than ever. After trillions of taxpayer dollars in bailouts and loan guarantees, Wall Street is back earning billions in quarterly profits and pushing the Dow above 10,000. Non-financial companies are also doing very well now that the extreme cost-cutting measures of the past year-and-a-half are paying off (remember hundreds of thousands of people being laid off every month?). Those firms are sitting on about $2 trillion in cash, which is some $500 billion more than they had when the Great Recession began. Not bad, right?

So why aren’t banks lending and why aren’t businesses hiring? Why are the “wealth creators” withholding investment capital and why are the “job creators” so slow to put people back to work? The answer lies in a thick gumbo of polls, statistics, think tank rhetoric, and hard-core lobbying all cooked up to do one thing: protect the expiring Bush tax cuts.

In this drama, where marginal tax rates for the top 2 percent of income earners are more important than the lives and livelihoods of millions of American workers, the players include many of the usual suspects.

The American Enterprise Institute supplies the intellectually dishonest policy papers, The Wall Street Journal runs articles citing those papers, right-wing radio and FOX News regurgitate the talking points from those articles all day and all night, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), and the Business Roundtable provide the cash to lobby members of Congress to keep those tax cuts from expiring on schedule.

So far, it has worked like a charm. House Republicans are bought and paid for — something they proved early last year when not one of them would vote for the Recovery Act, designed to stop the Great Recession in its tracks. In the Senate, the Republican caucus has shown through their unprecedented use of the filibuster threat on every major piece of legislation that it is basically leased with an option to buy. Because threatening

a filibuster is considered to be actually doing it, Senate Republicans have put a 60-vote threshold on the Democratic agenda for no other reason than to make it more difficult for the Democrats to govern. The combination of House obstreperousness and Senate intransigence has conspired to prevent economic recovery from happening more quickly and undermined consumer confidence, providing the opening for what has to be the Frank Lutz-generated talking point of the fall campaign: uncertainty.

The Chamber, the Roundtable, and the NFIB are certain that they want “entitlement programs” reformed, their “regulatory burden” eased, and the Bush tax cuts extended “at least temporarily.” They’re claiming the lack of certainty about whether or not these things will get done is the reason the businesses they represent won’t do their part for our country’s recovery and put the American worker back on the job.

In practical terms, that means these business interests want Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security (now large enough to basically eat up all federal receipts) reformed immediately. And they want President Obama and the Democrats in Congress — who ran and won in 2008 on a platform that included stricter regulations — to go back on the promises they made to voters. And they really want the federal government to run up a 10-year deficit of between $675 billion and $3 trillion so the Bush tax cuts can become permanent and their tax rate can be 35 percent, not 39 percent. Then, and only then, will these people consider sharing the $2 trillion they’re hoarding.

But they can be certain entitlement reform isn’t happening between now and January because it’s never happened before.

They can be certain that the BP spill in the Gulf means the era of sacrificing health and safety regulations for increased profits is over forever. And they’ve been certain President Bush’s tax cuts were going to expire in January of 2011 since he signed them into law in May of 2003 — or at least since Election Day 2008. The only thing they’re not certain about is whether or not the voters will be gullible enough to blame Democrats for the stalling tactics that slowed the recovery and stupid enough to let the same Republicans who killed our economy try to revive it with the same ideas (like tax cuts for the outrageously wealthy) that didn’t work the first time.

I’m certain we have more sense than that.

KENNY MACK is a multi-platform content provider with four-quadrant crossover appeal who thinks it’s a sad day when American businesses need “certainty” in order to compete. His past columns are archived at www.ifyoumissedit.com and he can be reached at kennymack@gmail.com.

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The founding fathers told us to try and stay out of foreign entanglements. The historically-proven American method of assimilation works better than peace keeping.

Invading other countries and occupying them is un-American. Before these wars, we ruled the world by selling them Big Macs, and building Wal-Marts to enslave them with the American dream.

I hate to point out the obvious, but Afghanistan and Iraq did not attack America.

The Taliban and Hamas don't kill as many American civilians as the Mexican narco-terrorists do today, yet we're in Iraq? Our immigration problem is because Mexicans are fleeing from terrorists. Why is freedom in Iraq more important than next door in Mexico?

Some have told me that if we pull out, the terrorists will come and get us. After 10 years of brutal Soviet occupation, the Afghani people went back to killing each other and never drove next door to the Soviet Union to commit one act of terrorism. The Soviets did not care about hearts and minds and had a toy factory that made explosives designed to kill children! What makes you think this time around they would travel half-way around the world when they would not even drive across a border? If this is truly a war on terrorism, we need to focus on eradicating terrorist cells, not “liberating” countries.

We must make sure we pay attention to what our leaders say and do. Do not trust our media or anyone else to tell you what is happening. Look at the source information and confirm the information for yourself. We can not keep letting our leaders lie to us because they claim to support some pet issue you like.

If you elect a leader that claims to support a woman’s right to choose, because that is important to you, then have them propose a law instead of hiding behind Roe v. Wade.

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Presidential candidate Barack Obama on July 3, 2008 said: “I have seen no information that contradicts the notion that we can bring our troops out safely at a pace of one to two brigades a month, and, again, that pace translates into having our combat troops out in 16 months' time.”

As of today, July 21, 2010 our troops are not home yet, and we still have almost 80,000 combat troops in Iraq. Moving them from Iraq to Afghanistan and attacking Pakistan is not what we had in mind when we voted. Can you believe we have been at war in Afghanistan longer than Vietnam and have no massive anti-war demonstration in Washington? How could this be? I have not heard a word of protest from our “fair and balanced” ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN networks. Just to make things clear, changing the name from “combat troops” to “peace keepers” or sending them to Afghanistan is not the same as “bring our troops out safely.”

You would think the Democrats would expect more from the Nobel Peace Prize winning president when it comes to ending war.

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The result Tuesday was yet another erratic day of stock trading. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75 points after having fallen 140 in early trading in response to a series of disappointing revenue reports.

Analysts were hard-pressed to come up with a reason for the turnaround. But trading was extremely light, and that tends to skew stock prices.

Analysts said some investors were getting a little more upbeat as they awaited earnings reports from Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc. after the close. But those reports came in mixed, just like those from the many companies that have also reported second-quarter results. Apple’s stock surged in after-hours trading, but Yahoo fell. Like IBM Corp., Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Inc., its revenue fell short of expectations.

Investors have been quick to sell on even a whiff of bad news. Early Tuesday, they were motivated by the reports from IBM, J&J and Goldman. Investors have been focusing on revenue rather than bottom-line earnings because of the link between companies’ sales and the economy. If revenue is down because consumers aren’t spending, that’s a sign that the economy could remain weak.

Investors seem to have decided as Tuesday wore on that earnings didn’t look quite as bad as they first thought. Analysts noted that Goldman’s drop in revenue was similar to those reported by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Their revenue fell not because of a weak economy, but because their customers decided to avoid the financial markets’ turbulence during the spring.

Some analysts said there were technical factors involved in the market’s moves.

“Investors may have been anticipating the market heading back to early July lows so when it didn’t fall apart in early trading, they slowly came back in,” said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial Group in Westport, Conn.

Those investors were looking at charts that track the movements of indicators including the Standard & Poor’s 500. When the S&P reaches, or doesn’t reach, a specific level, that can prompt investors to buy or sell.

It was hard to predict what turn trading might take Wednesday. Yahoo and Apple are considered indicators of the overall economy, but their mixed results weren’t giving investors a clear-cut direction for stocks.

The Dow rose 75.53, or 0.7 percent, to 10,229.96. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 12.23, or 1.1 percent, to 1,083.48 and the Nasdaq composite index rose 24.26, or 1.1 percent, to 2,222.49.

Advancing stocks were ahead of losers by 4 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to an extremely light 1.7 billion shares, up from Monday’s 4.1 billion.

Treasury prices ended the day little

changed, although they rose in early trading as stocks fell as investors opted for safer investments. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, was unchanged from 2.96 percent late Monday.

Tom di Galoma, head of U.S. government bond trading at Guggenheim Partners, commented on the erratic stock trading: “It’s a constant tug-of-war we’re seeing” as investors try to figure out how much growth potential there is in the economy. Earnings have been mixed, which adds to the muddled picture, he said.

While earnings reports will continue to flow in on Wednesday and beyond, investors are also going to watch closely the next two days as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives Congress his semi-annual report on the economy.

Sheldon predicted that Bernanke would reaffirm comments made in the minutes of the Fed’s June meeting, which were released last week. There, the Fed predicted that the economy will see softer growth in second half of the year.

If Bernanke is able to placate investors and help send stocks higher, it likely will be a temporary blip. The market has quickly shrugged off the chairman’s comments in recent months, and focused instead on the latest bad economic or earnings report.

A downbeat report on the housing sector didn’t help the market’s early bad mood. The Commerce Department said home construction fell last month to the lowest level since October. The drop was mitigated by a 2.1 percent rise in building permit applications, an indicator of future activity.

Yahoo rose 10 cents in regular trading to $15.20, then dropped $1.10, or 7.2 percent, in after-hours trading. Apple rose $6.31 to $251.89 in regular trading, then surged another $7, or 2.8 percent, in extended trading after its results impressed investors.

Johnson & Johnson’s revenues came in flat, and below what analysts were expecting.

The company said several recalls of popular nonprescription medicines kept its top line in check. J&J’s shares, a component of the Dow, fell 99 cents, or 2.7 percent to $58.58.

For some companies, even matching expectations for revenues isn’t enough. Late Monday Texas Instruments reported revenues that came in line with estimates, but investors were disappointed that the company didn’t report results as robust as come of its competitors. TI’s shares slumped 78 cents, or 3 percent, to $24.77.

IBM fell $3.24, or 2.5 percent, to $126.52.

Goldman Sachs’ results are being closely watched since investors are concerned about how much banks will be restricted from trading by new financial regulation reform.

The bank’s net income after paying preferred stock dividends fell 83 percent to $453 million on lower trading revenue and a charge to settle civil fraud charges brought by the government.

Goldman rose $3.23, or 2.2 percent, to $148.91.

Overseas, Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent, Germany’s DAX index fell 0.8 percent, and France’s CAC-40 fell 0.7 percent. Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 1.2 percent.

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Icahn renews bid for Lions Gate after short truce ends ANDREW VANACORE AP Business Writer

NEW YORK Activist investor Carl Icahn declared an end to his brief truce with boutique film studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. on Tuesday, renewing his bid to take over the company and replace its board.

Icahn disclosed that he now controls 37.9 percent of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.’s shares — although a defensive move by management to swap debt for equity cut that to 33.5 percent on Tuesday. Still, he has amassed enough of a stake that it could be difficult for the company’s management to make major decisions without his OK. And he said he will launch another tender offer for the stake he doesn’t own, this time dropping his offer price by 50 cents to $6.50 per share. Icahn’s latest bid values the company at about $767.7 million, based on the number of shares the company had outstanding as of June 1. It would cost him $476.7 million to buy up what he doesn’t own.

Lions Gate shares fell more than 15 percent in the weeks after Icahn’s previous tender offer expired, closing at $6.03 on Monday. The stock jumped 50 cents, or 8.3 percent, to close at $6.53 on Tuesday, after the new offer was announced.

Icahn said the offer is conditioned on Lions Gate avoiding any major transaction outside the normal course of business. The company has been considering a bid for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. film studio, a move Icahn opposes.

After Icahn’s renewed bid, the company said it had swapped $100 million in convertible bonds for common shares at a price of $6.20. The move added 6.2 million new

shares, lifting the company’s outstanding share count to about 135 million and reducing its debt.

That pushed Icahn’s stake to about 33.5 percent from 37.9 percent.

Icahn and Lions gate announced a 10-day truce beginning July 9 to give the two sides time to discuss acquisition options. That period ended Monday and apparently did not provide any breakthrough or improved relations.

In a statement Tuesday, Icahn said the company’s management and board are refusing to let shareholders have a say in the company’s future. As a result, Icahn said again that he will nominate his own slate of directors to replace the company’s board.

Lions Gate released a brief statement saying only that it will consider Icahn’s latest offer and make a recommendation to shareholders “promptly.”

Lions Gate has pointed out that the majority of its investors have spurned Icahn’s previous attempts to take control of the company.

It introduced a shareholder rights program, also referred to as a “poison pill,” earlier this month to prevent a hostile takeover.

The plan would allow other shareholders to buy extra shares at a discount in case of a hostile bid, which would dilute the stake of any hostile buyer.

Lions Gate is the studio behind the Oscar-winning movie “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire.” It also owns the TV Guide network and produces television shows, including “Weeds” and “Mad Men.” The company is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, but has most of its operations in Santa Monica.

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EPA takes new look at gas drilling and water issues MARC LEVY & MARY ESCH Associated Press Writer

HARRISBURG, Pa. So vast is the wealth of natural gas locked into dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio that some geologists estimate it’s enough to supply the entire East Coast for 50 years.

But freeing it requires a powerful drilling process called hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” using millions of gallons of water brewed with toxic chemicals, that some fear could pollute water above and below ground and deplete aquifers.

As gas drillers swarm to this lucrative Marcellus Shale region and blast into other shale reserves around the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking a new look at the controversial fracking technique, currently exempt from federal regulation. The $1.9 million study comes as the nation reels from the Deepwater Horizon environmental and economic disaster playing out in the Gulf of Mexico.

The energy industry steadfastly defends the process as having been proven safe over many years as well as necessary to keep the nation on a path to energy independence.

Studies have “consistently shown that the risks are managed, it’s safe, it’s a technology that’s essential ... it’s also a technology that’s well-regulated,” said Lee Fuller, director of the industry coalition Energy In Depth.

"A fair study,” Fuller added, “will show that the procedures that are there now are highly effective and do not need to be altered — the federal government does not need to be there.”

But because of the oil disaster, conservation groups say the drilling industry has lost it credibility and the rapid expansion of shale drilling needs to be scrutinized.

“People no longer trust the oil and gas industry to say, ‘Trust us, we’re not cutting corners,’ “ said Cathy Carlson, a policy adviser for Earthworks.

Just six years ago, an EPA study declared the fracking process posed “little or no threat to underground sources of drinking water” and with that blessing, Congress a year later exempted hydraulic fracturing from federal regulation.

Now the agency, prodded by Congress even before the Gulf disaster and stung by criticism that its 2004 study was scientifically flawed and maybe politically tainted, will bring the issues to the heart of the land lease rush in the Marcellus Shale: Canonsburg, Pa., on Thursday and Binghamton, N.Y., on August 12.

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SAMOHI FROM PAGE 3 he can’t offer applicants from outside the school community a teaching position to go along with the coaching gig.

Escalera said that he doesn’t have a timeline, but would like to have a coach in place by the end of the month, allowing his new hire to go about the business of organizing

BAIL FROM PAGE 1 investigating officer wrote that the victim’s father, Greg Redding, was involved in a business negotiation with Park’s employer, Dr. Munir Uwaydah, that “fell apart” five days before the murder.

Park received $250,000 from her employer about three weeks before the killing, and her father received a $113,400 payment three days before Park’s arrest, according to the court papers signed by Santa Monica police Detective Karen Thompson.

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“I want the new person to have enough time to decide what to do with the girls [on the team],” Escalera said. daniela@smdp.com

Uwaydah, a Marina del Rey physician, was convicted in 2005 of defrauding a medical supply company of nearly $1 million and is being investigated for possibly filing millions of dollars in fraudulent insurance claims, the Los Angeles Times reported last month.

Redding attended Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, where she played on the golf team. After moving to the Southland from Arizona, she landed a role in a small 2005 movie and was featured in a photo layout in Maxim magazine, winning one of the magazine’s “Hometown Hottie” contests. news@smdp.com

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PINE STREET FROM PAGE 1 “I am grateful for and pleased with the placements and services at Pine Street — the [school] board is gambling with a known success versus an unknown risk: if the new arrangement does not work for my son, or delays his progression in any way, be advised I will exercise my right to request a due process hearing against the district to obtain more appropriate placement and services,” Pine Street parent Katrina Bronson wrote to the school board last week.

District officials said teachers at Pine Street found out about the closure through a “leak” and told parents before relocation plans were finalized, creating confusion and uncertainty. Special Education Director Sara Woolverton said she was forced to close Pine Street because of the construction, but it had always been the intention of the district to relocate the preschool’s students to permanent facilities where they and their teachers could become part of the larger education community and not be marginalized.

There was also some concern expressed about having preschool kids on the same campus as Olympic High, a continuation school for teens who are at risk of not graduating.

The closure of Pine Street comes as the district seems to be making progress in healing relationships with special ed parents following decades of mistrust in which parents were made to sign confidentiality agreements, or “gag orders,” making some afraid to advocate for their children.

For many at Pine Street, the feeling is that nothing has changed.

“They just need four classrooms and are throwing us out,” O’Connell said. “They really don’t know how this is going to go so they are letting our children be the guinea pigs.”

Some school board members said they would have liked to have seen more communication between the parents and district administrators to alleviate some of the uncertainty.

“I expressed great concerns about the way the information had been rolled out,” said school board member Jose Escarce.“But it’s not too late to try and fix that. We need to have aggressive outreach to inform parents and explain everything to them — to reassure them.”

School board vice president Ralph Mechur said he would have liked to have seen discussions with the parents take place earlier in the school year so they could be better prepared.

“The board will be watching this to make sure the transition is successful,” Mechur said.

Woolverton said as soon as she found out where the Pine Street kids would be transferred she immediately sent out letters to all the parents letting them know and had several phone conversations with them. She did not want to inform parents of the closure until she had a transfer plan in place. She is disappointed about the leak and sympathizes with concerned parents.

“Change is difficult for some people, especially when you are dealing with children who are at such a young age,” she said.

“But each classroom has a teacher and an aid and both will be moving with the students, keeping the class intact.”

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MOVING SOON: A tricycle is left on the playground at Pine Street Preschool, which is slated to be closed and its special education students transferred, angering parents.

Woolverton said the elementary schools are currently offering stellar services for students with special needs and will be able to accommodate Pine Street kids. She believes the kids will benefit from being a part of a larger school environment and Pine Street teachers will have more on-campus support and an administrator to advocate for their needs instead of being on an isolated campus.

There is still some uncertainty as to where physical and speech therapy will be held. It is currently administered at Pine Street. Woolverton said plans for therapy should be finalized soon and she expects the district to not accrue any additional costs because of the transfer.

“In the end, I think it will be a positive change,” Woolverton said.

While parents said they were only recently made aware of the move, the school board in October of 2007 voted for a plan to relocate the special education program at Pine Street, occupational and physical therapy and child care classrooms so that Olympic could be expanded.

Even so, uncertainty is unsettling, said Clara Sturak, whose son attended Pine Street for two years. While breaking up Pine Street could be beneficial down the road, Sturak wonders what the immediate impact will be.

She knows from her own experience that Pine Street works and has saved the district money in the form of fewer parents requesting outside services that can be costly.

“My primary concern is that by taking our kids … and putting them in their own little rooms … that are separated from the rest of the campus, you’ve made the first step in segregating our kids and frankly our kids are segregated systemically,” said Sturak, who serves on the district’s Special Education Advisory Committee. “At least at Pine Street they get enormous benefit from being around their peers. You have kids in general ed preschool who mingle with those in special ed before they know enough to be critical or make fun.” kevinh@smdp.com

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DAVIS FROM PAGE 1 former mayor and Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights co-founder Denny Zane.

They’re just two of the names that make up the “Gleam Team” — an all-star lineup of current and former Santa Monica politicians that Davis announced Tuesday will be backing her for a seat on the City Council this November.

The team also includes state Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Santa Monica), state Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), and Sheila Kuehl, the former state senator from Santa Monica.

The statements of support were the first high-profile endorsements in a campaign season in which five of seven City Council seats are up for grabs.

Davis, who was appointed to the City Council to finish out the term of deceased mayor Herb Katz in 2009, is running to complete the remaining two years of Katz’ term.

In backing Davis’ bid, her supporters cited her record of service with organizations such as senior service provider WISE & Healthy Aging, the Santa Monica Child Care and Early Education Task Force, the Community for Excellent Public Schools and Santa Monica’s Planning Commission.

“I have worked with and admired Gleam Davis for many years,” Brownley said in a press release. “With a keen analytic point of view, Gleam embodies public service and is passionate about keeping Santa Monica a wonderful place to live for all residents.”

During her year-and-a-half as a council member,Davis said she has made it a point to listen to a variety of perspectives on city issues and has tried to “be the council person for all people.”

As a former co-chair of SMRR, Davis’

We have you covered support from Zane, Pavely, Brownley and Kuehl — who are all aligned with the political party — was unsurprising. But the support from Trives, a non-SMRR member who is more closely associated with the business community, was more unusual.

While some SMRR members have clashed with the chamber, especially on issues of development, Davis said she’s cultivated good working relationships with people in the business community.

“I think that everyone in SMRR recognizes that to do all the tremendous things we do in the city, we need to have a sustainable environment and a sustainable economy, and the chamber is a crucial part of maintaining that sustainable economy,” Davis said.

Trives added: “Gleam cares deeply about our city’s safety and security, both on the streets and within its economy. As a council member, Gleam regularly demonstrates her depth of understanding about the issues in our city and willingness to advocate on behalf of all of its residents and employees.”

In a statement, Zane called Davis’ voice “critical to keep on the Santa Monica City Council.”

He applauded her for working “to protect and enhance our city’s unique livability for all Santa Monicans” and said she has been a leader working to promote sustainability and protect city services.

This month, Davis was a leading voice in support of a ballot initiative that would add a half percent transaction and use tax to Santa Monica’s sales tax in order to raise about $12 million per year for City Hall, which is projecting budget gaps the next several years. Davis also was a strong supporter of giving half the revenue raised from the new tax to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.

Davis is corporate counsel for AT&T and supervises all of its litigation in the Los

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Angeles area. Before joining AT&T, she prosecuted civil rights violations as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division in the United States Department of Justice and was a partner at the law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.

She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1981 and from USC in 1978. Davis and her husband, John Prindle, have one son, Jackson, who is 13 years old.

Besides Davis, Councilman Terry O’Day is also running for a two-year term after being appointed to the council this year to fill the seat vacated when Mayor Ken Genser died.

Among City Council incumbents, only Mayor Bobby Shriver and Councilman Richard Bloom have terms that expire in 2012. nickt@smdp.com

LOHAN FROM PAGE 3 the 84 minutes she spent at the same jail in the same case in 2006. Revel ordered that the actress cannot be freed on house arrest, electronic monitoring or work release.

Lohan’s surrender was long anticipated but not without last-minute drama. Last week she moved into a sober living facility founded by famed celebrity attorney Robert Shapiro, who on Friday said he agreed to represent her.

But by Monday afternoon Shapiro was standing before Revel, announcing he would not be handling it. That prompted widespread speculation about who would represent the actress.

On Tuesday morning it was Lohan’s longtime attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, who accompanied the starlet to court and stood beside her. Holley acted like she had never left the case and said afterward she will continue to represent Lohan.

“She’s scared as anyone would be, but she’s as resolute and she’s doing it,” Holley said after the hearing.

Lohan was booked into the jail at 10:11 a.m. and sheriff ’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore described her as “extremely cooperative.”

Lohan was first arrested after a hit-andrun crash on Memorial Day weekend in 2007. Two months later, she was arrested after commandeering a sport utility vehicle and engaging in a chase that ended in Downtown Santa Monica. The incident has spawned a civil case that has been delayed because of Lohan’s jail stint. Revel noted that during both of her arrests, Lohan lied about her involvement and said her recent apology didn’t ring true.

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BP: Capped well is holding up COLLEEN LONG & FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writers

NEW ORLEANS The government’s oil spill chief tried to tamp down fears Tuesday that BP’s capped well is buckling under the pressure, saying that seepage detected along the seafloor less than two miles away is coming from an older well no longer in production.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen also said at least five leaks have been discovered around the well machinery, but he dismissed them as “very small drips” — “not unlike an oil leak you might have in your car.”

Over the past few days, since a 75-ton cap was placed over the well to keep the oil bottled up inside, BP and government engineers have been watching closely to see whether the well would hold tight or show signs of rupturing under the pressure. A rupture could cause a bigger and harder-to-control disaster.

Allen has granted BP repeated 24-hour extensions to keep the cap in place, as long as the company monitors the well scrupulously.

Meanwhile, the end game in the threemonth crisis appeared to be drawing closer, with BP vice president Kent Wells saying the drilling of the relief well — necessary to permanently plug up the well — is on track. He said crews hope to drill sideways into the blown-out well and intercept it at the end of July.

At that point, they will begin the kill procedure — pumping mud and cement into the hole deep underground to seal it up once and for all. BP said that stage could take any-

where from five days to a couple of weeks.

“Everything’s looking good,” Wells said.

“The relief well is exactly where we want it.

It’s pointed in the right direction, and so we’re feeling good about that.”

BP wants to leave the cap on in the meantime. At one point, Allen wanted instead to relieve the pressure by opening up the cap and siphoning oil up to ships on the surface, but he has relented in the past few days.

Opening up the cap would have required allowing millions of gallons to gush into the sea again for a few days while the plumbing was hooked up.

In the meantime, engineers are considering shooting drilling mud down through the cap to increase the chances that the attempt to kill the well deep underground will succeed.

The seepage detected from the seafloor briefly raised fears that the well was in danger. But Allen said another well is to blame.

The seepage is closer to the older well than to the one that blew out, Allen said. Also, he said, “it’s not unusual to have seepage around the old wells.”

There are two wells within two miles of BP’s blowout, one that has been abandoned and another that is not in production.

Around 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf aren’t checked for leaks, an Associated Press investigation showed this month.

The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and touching off one of America’s worst environmental crises. The well has spewed somewhere between 94 million and 184 million gallons into the Gulf. BP said the cost of dealing with the spill has now reached nearly $4 billion.

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★★★★★ Others find you strangely enticing and unusually creative. Still, maintain your image in a key meeting. A change right now might not serve you well. A supervisor, boss or parent expresses his or her approval. Be gracious. Tonight: Whatever knocks your socks off.

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Tonight: Any excuse for a celebration works.

★★★ Details could prevent your success. Stay focused, especially on matters involving finances and your budget. A friend means well but might not have the best idea. Focus at work. Through concentrating, you'll level out.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★ Others demand your attention, and you have little choice. One person in particular is unusually open and authentic. Enjoy this transformation, as he or she has been a curmudgeon lately. For once, it is wonderful to be wrong. Tonight: Use care with your finances.

Happy birthday This year, you walk through a new door and open up to unusual professional possibilities. A parent also could become quite

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■ In May, Douglas Ballard and Joseph Foster were indicted for allegedly selling fraudulent loans in exchange for bribes, while they were vice presidents of the Atlanta-area "faith-based" Integrity Bank. The bank opened in 2000, touting Christian principles, giving Bibles to new customers, and encouraging prayer at employee gatherings. (The bank closed in 2008, thought then merely to be the victim of sour real-estate loans, and in fact the bank's more-spiritual founder, Steven Skow, had left the bank by 2007.)

TODAY IN HISTORY Singapore Race Riot – every year since then, Racial Harmony Day is celebrated on this day.

Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.

After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

Bloody Friday bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army around Belfast, Northern Ireland – 22 bomb explosions, 9 people killed and 130 people seriously injured.

In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.

Christopher EwartBiggs British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.

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