WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue 249
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
DAILY LOTTERY 15 25 37 38 52 Meganumber: 4 Jackpot: $70M 5 10 24 26 38 Meganumber: 23 Jackpot: $56M 6 20 23 29 37
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Sen. Feinstein drops in on SM Senator rallies Santa Monica environmentalists, residents to protect coastline BY JESSICA ROBERTS
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DIANNE DRILLS IT California Senator Dianne Feinstein, flanked by Tracy Egoscue, executive director of the Santa Monica
OCEAN AVENUE — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined leaders of local and national environmental organizations Tuesday at Loew’s Hotel to bring attention to a House bill she says could allow offshore oil drilling in the Pacific. “I’m here to alert California to the growing possibility that there could be new drilling off our coast,” Feinstein said. Gathered in a glass-walled alcove overlooking the beach, the Santa Monica Baykeeper, the Environmental Defense Center, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Heal the Bay and Environment Now applauded the senator for her leadership. Tracy Egoscue, executive director of the Santa Monica Baykeeper, said Feinstein had called her and said she wanted to hold a news conference in Santa Monica with a view of the bay. “It speaks to the beauty of the
Baykeeper and Santa Monica Planning Commissioner Terry O’Day, speaks out on offshore drilling during a press conference at a beach hotel on Tuesday.
See COAST, page 5
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
An analysis of government records by The Washington Post revealed in July that a federal agriculture subsidy program to compensate farmers for market-losing crops has evolved, through regulatory interpretation and lax enforcement, into a program that since 2000 has paid $1.3 billion to people who don’t even farm at all. (Although pre-tax income of all farming was a near-record $72 billion in 2005, federal subsidies actually grew to $25 billion, a sum considerably more than that paid to families receiving welfare.)
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 242nd day of 2006. There are 123 days left in the year. Union forces were defeated by the Confederates at the 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Va. The creator of “Frankenstein,” Mary 1797 Wollstonecraft Shelley, was born in London. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 1945 arrived in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters. The “Hot Line” communications link between Washington 1963 and Moscow went into operation.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
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See MURDER, page 6
Horoscopes 2
Surf Report 3
Opinion Reiner rants on Mel
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State Palm Springs puts hammer on press 8
Real Estate Loving the landlords
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National ‘Sinner’ found in Sin City
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People in the News Controversy follows Madonna
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Comics Yak it up, yakmeister
Classifieds Ad space odyssey
A new era of service at City Hall
By Wire Reports
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INDEX
Water temperature: 69°
‘Black Widows’ Fair-weathered friends denied bail DOWNTOWN LA — A judge denied a request for bail on Tuesday for one of two elderly women accused of killing homeless men in hit-and-run crashes in an effort to collect about $2 million in life insurance. Superior Court Commissioner James Bianco said Helen Golay, 75, of Santa Monica, and Hungarianborn Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, of Hollywood, will be held without bail as long as prosecutors consider a death sentence for them. Golay’s lawyer, Roger Jon Diamond, argued that her 23-hour lockdown in a county jail in Lynwood is unduly harsh and impedes meeting with his client. “She has never been convicted of any crime,” Diamond said. “She’s
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Joy Peters/Special to the Daily Press Three-year-old best friends from Culver City wade through the waves north of the Santa Monica Pier during a photo session this past weekend.
MAIN LIBRARY — Addressing concerns of a disconnect between residents and city staff, City Manager Lamont Ewell Tuesday unveiled a new set of customer service standards at City Hall, as well as a new slogan for all employees to live by — “We do the right thing right!” The seven standards emphasize swift and accurate responses to residents’ requests, all while providing a safe and welcoming environment that is sensitive to the special needs of customers. Politeness is key, as is maintaining the highest ethical standards. “We are instituting standards that See DOING IT RIGHT, page 7
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