Coronavirus: Santa Monica City Council Approves Employee Buyouts

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SANTA MONICA, CA —The City of Santa Monica is facing a budget crisis in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and asking employees to leave their jobs. The city council voted unanimously during a special meeting on Tuesday to move forward with a "Voluntary Early Separation Incentive Program" and will create a plan for a major organizational ...
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Santa Monica nurses suspended for refusing COVID-19 care without N95 mask

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He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing. But at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, Gulick and his colleagues worried that caring for infected patients without first being able to don an N95 respirator mask was risky. The N95 mask filters out 95% of all airborne ...
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Related California eyes latest project in Downtown Santa Monica

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Related California has filed plans to build a 260-unit apartment building at the site of a Vons supermarket in Downtown Santa Monica. The complex would rise five stories at 1500-1534 Lincoln Boulevard, according to Urbanize. The developer posted a notice outside the supermarket detailing its intentions this week, according to the report.
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Who Is Allison Dunbar? Everything To Know About Ron Perlman's Girlfriend At Center Of His Divorce

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What do we know about Ron Perlman's girlfriend? Dunbar is also a burlesque dancer who created the burlesque show Smokeshow. She dances at Santa Monica's Harvelles when she's not acting. She has a degree from Fordham University. Not much is known about Dunbar outside of her IMDB profile and the videos of her burlesque dancing. One fact that we ...
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COVID-19 has exposed how vulnerable we really are

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Health care workers drive by to express their support and nurses protesting the lack of N95 respirators and other personal protective equipment while guarding social distancing guidelines outside the UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica amid the coronavirus pandemic in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, April 13, 2020. Damian Dovargane, Associated ...
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Mountain lions get endangered species protections in parts of California

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The lion killed was P-56, a radio-collared animal that had been the subject of research for years in the Santa Monica Mountains by national parks biologists, and which was believed to be one of two remaining adult males in the area. Another controversy arose in the Bay Area in November, after the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District ...
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Coronavirus Live Updates: COVID-19 in the Bay Area, Friday April 17

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Ten nurses at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica were suspended after they refused to enter COVID-19 patient rooms without N95 masks, which filter out 95 percent of all airborne particles and are considered safer than other masks. Hospital officials said the nurses didn’t need the masks to safely do their jobs.
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