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Rancho Mirage council OKs plan for 234 affordable apartments
With the backing of business leaders who described an urgent need for more housing in Rancho Mirage for hotel and hospital workers, the city council has approved a 234-unit affordable housing project near Gerald Ford Drive and Monterey Avenue. Known as Via Vail Apartments, the project approved last week is planned for 10...
Protest Banner Continues to Spark Controversy on Third Street Promenade
A protest banner that has stirred controversy on Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica has been revised yet again—this time in a parody of Mt. Rushmore. In 2022, John Alle hung a sign in front of his shuttered property that proclaimed, “Santa Monica is not Safe: Crime, Depravity, Outdoor Mental Asylum.” A year later, he changed the sign to the following statement, later adding a rainbow background: “Santa Methica is not Safe: SM City Manager supports Free Needle & Meth Pipe Distribution Program in our Parks and Public Spaces.”
Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division successfully conducted the first shore test of the TRAM
Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division successfully conducted the first shore test of the Transferrable Rearming Mechanism (TRAM), which will enable U.S. Navy surface combatants to reload missile canisters into their Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) at sea using time-proven underway replenishment (UNREP). Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro...
Jim Harbaugh didn’t even need full day of camp to return to exceptionally weird form
Meet Jim Harbaugh. He is a 60-year-old man who moved to Southern California earlier this year. Harbaugh currently resides in a RV at a waterfront RV park in Huntington Beach. It's a nice RV, but you can tell from the way he says "this is my Quantum Thor Motor Coach" that he doesn't know anything about it. In April, Harbaugh was binge watching "The Rockford Files" and hanging out with his friend, Greg Roman, who also lives in the same RV park.
California Recommends AT&T, Frontier, Six Others for $143M in Broadband Grants
The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has recommended a total of $143.3 million in grants to go toward broadband deployments to locations in the state that currently lack high-speed broadband service. AT&T was recommended for two grants totaling $18.1 million and Frontier was recommended for three grants totaling $22.9 million....
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