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LABOR DAY EDITION
Volume 21 Issue 247
09.03.22 - 09.05.22
HEAT WAVES COULD BE A WINDOW INTO CLIMATE CHANGE FUTURE
Council candidates start picking-up endorsements MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
Without the weather cues to mark the seasons, Californians track the passage of time via seasonal Starbucks drinks, custom candy in Target and Shen Yun commercials. While the retailers are pushing full steam ahead into the Spooky Season, political wonks have an intermediary time marked by the start of the endorsement rush. Candidates for local offices are touting endorsements on a daily basis as they prepare for big fundraising pushes in advance of the heavy campaign work and a trio of council candidates are among the
first beneficiaries of a significant union endorsement. Lana Negrete, Armen Melkonians and Caroline Torosis were endorsed by Santa Monica firefighters this week. “Santa Monica is navigating the early stages of its economic and cultural recovery. These complex challenges stand before us with no simple and immediate solutions” said Local 1109 President Dom Bei. “Public safety and homelessness remain at the top of Santa Monica’s greatest concerns and they are shared by our residents, businesses, workforce and visitors alike.” SEE ENDORSEMENT PAGE 6
Manslaughter charge tossed in boat fire that killed 34 BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press
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A Los Angeles federal judge threw out an indictment Friday charging a dive boat captain with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 people in a 2019 fire aboard a vessel anchored off the Southern California coast. The ruling came on the third anniversary of one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history as the Conception went down in flames Sept. 2, 2019, near an island off the coast of Santa Barbara. All 33 passengers and a crew member who were trapped in
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a bunk room below deck died. Captain Jerry Boylan, 68, failed to follow safety rules, federal prosecutors said. He was accused of “misconduct, negligence and inattention” by failing to train his crew, conduct fire drills and have a roving night watchman on the boat when the fire ignited. But the indictment failed to specify that Boylan acted with gross negligence, which U.S. District Judge George Wu said was a required element to prove the crime of seaman’s manslaughter and must
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