WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2005
Volume 5, Issue 15
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Assembly race heats up early
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
Lee Ka-wai filed a lawsuit in Hong Kong’s Small Claims Tribunal in September against the Rolex Corp., claiming intense psychological trauma from a rash she developed on her wrist after wearing the company’s US$3,800 Oyster Perpetual watch. Lee blames the rash on the label on the back of the watch, which Rolex says everyone knows must be removed after purchase but which Lee left on out of fear that removal would void the warranty.
41st DISTRICT — The election isn’t until next summer, but three Santa Monicans have been stumping for months, if not years, for this region’s state Assembly seat. Assemblywoman Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills), who has held the seat since 2000, will give up her position next year due to term limits. When she retires her seat, Pavley will have served three twoyear terms. Although Election Day for the seat is in November 2006, the true
JULIA BROWNLEY
KELLY HAYES-RAITT
JONATHAN LEVEY
winner will be decided on June 6 in the primary election. Five Democratic candidates have entered the race, including
Santa Monicans Jonathan Levey, Kelly Hayes-Raitt and Julia Brownley. The other two — Barry Groveman and Louise Rishoff —
are from Calabasas and Agoura Hills, respectively.
Council is confident in its choice for city manager
MASSive music
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 334th day of 2005. There are 31 days left in the year.
BY RYAN HYATT
On Nov. 30, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War. In 1803, Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States. In 1804, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial, accused of political bias. (He was acquitted by the Senate.)
Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL — Elected officials say they’re confident in their choice for Santa Monica’s new city manager, despite concerns some have expressed regarding controversy he’s endured while holding his position in San Diego. The Nov. 22 LAMONT EWELL City Council announcement that Lamont Ewell is to become Santa Monica’s top administrator as of Jan. 14 has
QUOTE OF THE DAY “No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.”
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY ENGLISH HISTORIAN (1800-1859)
INDEX Horoscopes Say yes tonight, Gem
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Surf Report Water temperature: 59° The nation’s rep in danger
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State California in brief
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Real Estate Buy smart, buy right
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International The hopes of a Fox
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Comics Laugh it up
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Crews prepare the inside of the MASS Music Dome at the Santa Monica Pier. Taking its name from the acronym for music, architecture, sonic and sculpture, the acclaimed MASS Ensemble, beginning on Dec. 1, will present regular evenings of music, dance and technology in the architectural structure of a giant geodesic dome.
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Opinion
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See CANDIDATES, page 6
See CITY MANAGER, page 5
Red Line to Santa Monica could lose strongest opponent By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Congressman Henry A. Waxman is rethinking his opposition to proposals for a downtown-to-Santa Monica subway. The Los Angeles Democrat has been an immovable barrier to tunneling on the Westside since a gas explosion 20 years ago in the
Fairfax District. He helped lead the effort to halt plans to extend the Metro Red Line subway west under Wilshire Boulevard. Now, he’s reviewing results of a new study that say the project could be built safely. The Westside subway is a top priority of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and a panel convened
at the request of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority concluded the Wilshire subway could be made safe. Waxman has asked the panel to produce a written report on its findings. “If the report confirms what we’ve been hearing, I will introduce a proposal to rescind the
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restriction,” Waxman said. A Red Line extension would still be years away, however. No funding is earmarked for a Red Line extension and the per-mile price for subway construction has skyrocketed in the last 20 years, to between $300 million and $350 million.
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