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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013
Volume 13 Issue 5
Santa Monica Daily Press
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History: Candidates jump into 1913 election late BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
THE PAST Ah, campaign season in Santa Monica. Despite the looming election date of Dec. 2, 1913, the mayoral candidates, perhaps feeling merciful, waited until mid-
November to throw their hats into the ring. It didn’t keep the race from getting heated. One hundred years ago this month, former Mayor Thomas Horace Dudley was first to announce his candidacy, hoping to unseat incumbent Roscoe Dow. Dow, through his cabinet of eight women, had become associated with temperance.
With the airport at least five years away from becoming a grassy-landing strip and development a universally encouraged concept (more than $1 million had already been spent on construction this year, a Santa Monica Outlook article boasts), Santa Monicans needed something to argue about. And liquor became it.
An initiative, proposed by the Law and Order League, would be placed on the Dec. 2 ballot to determine whether or not liquor could be served on Sundays in Santa Monica. “If Venice wants the undesirable element, SEE HISTORY PAGE 8
Broader lessons in President Obama’s immigration reform LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ Associated Press
MIAMI The first year of the Obama adminis-
game with Channel Islands threatening to spoil Samohi’s shutout bid. Behind running back AJ Oto, Channel Islands benefited from a penalty on the Samohi band for playing during a time-out and marched deep into
tration’s temporary reprieve for youth living in the country illegally has shown that any broader immigration reform effort would require the government to better prepare by streamlining application procedures and by providing more information about what documents are needed to apply to stay in America, experts say. Immigrant advocates say the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has worked relatively well. Still, many nonprofits and even some school districts reported serious growing pains as they stretched to accommodate the avalanche of requests related to the application process. The youth program is open to immigrants between the ages of 15 and 32 who came to the U.S. before they turned 16 and live here illegally, haven’t left the country since June 2007 and have had no felonies or serious misdemeanors. They must also have a high school diploma or equivalency, or be currently enrolled in school. A total of about 1.7 million people could be eligible for the program. The reprieve affects only a fraction of the estimated 11 million people in the country illegally who could be part of larger immigration reform legislation. However, because it’s the first major immigration change in many years, experts see it as a template for a more comprehensive, and no doubt more complicated, overhaul. “DACA represents an important trial run
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Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com
PAY DIRT: Samohi’s Will Taylor celebrates as he runs toward the endzone for his second touchdown of the night at Santa Monica College’s Corsair Field Friday night in a 27-0 victory over Channel Island during the first round of the playoffs. Next for Samohi is a road game at Lompoc.
Samohi Vikings plow into second round BY DANIEL ARCHULETA Managing Editor
CORSAIR FIELD Santa Monica football made short work of Channel Islands on Friday to advance to the second round of the playoffs.
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On the strength of five turnovers and two turnovers on downs, Samohi (7-4 overall and 4-1 in the Ocean League) walked away with a 27-0 win in the first round of the CIFSouthern Section Western Division playoffs at Santa Monica College. The only real drama came late in the
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