Santa Monica Daily Press, October 15, 2011

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THE ROCKY RELATIONSHIP ISSUE

Breaking up is hard to do Splitting the school district in two will be difficult to achieve, county, state officials say BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer

MALIBU At the last Board of Education meeting held in Malibu, residents and council members employed language from the

American Revolution to request an advisory seat at the dais. Now, it’s looking more like secession. Malibu officials have begun exploring the possibility of leaving the Santa MonicaMalibu Unified School District and forming

a separate school entity, according to a spokesperson with the Los Angeles County Department of Education. Malibu City Mayor Pro Tem Laura Zahn Rosenthal and Councilmember Lou La Monte, both members of the Malibu City

Council’s school subcommittee, are looking into the issue, Rosenthal said. They meet with county officials next week. SEE SPLIT PAGE 10

Sluggish economy hurting SM seniors on fixed incomes Federal poverty guidelines do not sync with cost of living in California BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer

CITYWIDE As the unemployed and disillusioned occupy Wall Street to express their discontent with the state of the economy and their financial security, another quieter group is struggling to make ends meet. Senior citizens, aged 62 and above, living on fixed income or the yield of their investments, were hit hard by the recession and continue to feel its effects, which presents challenges to local resources trying to help them. “The main thing with seniors is that you remain on a fixed income, and everything around you is going up and inflating,” said Barbara Browning, chair of the Santa Monica Commission for the Senior Community. According to a report compiled by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the downturn left millions with “higher expenses, lower incomes, depleted savings and reduced home equity or homes lost to foreclosure,” each a further drain on a population with few ways to supplement their fixed incomes. As a result, in 2009, one in six Americans over the age of 65 lived in poverty, and half lived on less than $18,500 a year. Social Security kept 36 percent of seniors out of poverty in 2008, and represented a primary source of income for almost half of older Americans and was the primary source of income for older minorities. SEE SENIORS PAGE 11

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WAITING GAME

Kevin Herrera kevinh@smdp.com Santa Monican Peter Dolan (left) checks his iPhone Friday while waiting in line on the Third Street Promenade to purchase the new iPhone 4S. Roughly 150 people were lined up before the Apple Store opened at 8 a.m. to be one of the first to have the new phone, which features a voice command program named Siri, a better camera and more memory. A couple of people camped out on the promenade Thursday night. Dolan wasn't one of them. 'I thought I would just walk over here and see what it was like and I was pretty surprised,' he said of the short line. Dolan waited for roughly 45 minutes to get his phone.

SM Baykeeper prepares to fight water board BY COLIN NEWTON Special to the Daily Press

SM BAY The California State Water Resources Control Board might have a fight on its hands.

On Tuesday, the State Water Board will decide on a policy that will damage the California coastline; at least, that’s what some environmental agencies, like the Santa Monica Baykeeper, are saying. The State Water Board will decide

whether it should keep or revise policy related to Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS), said George Kostyrko, spokesperson of the State Water Board. SEE WATER PAGE 12

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