Bratton Online. October 2. MAIN STREET (now Pacific Avenue) and the intersection of Mission and Willow Streets. Pacific Avenue now goes right up north through those buildings behind the trolley car. Nowadays on the left side we have Bank of The West, Ron Lau’s empty lot, Lulu Carpenter’s Original location, and Mr. Goodie’s Antiques. Passionate about film? Don't miss the email made for the in-the-know film fan: New releases - on the same day as in cinemas. Covello & Covello Historical photo collection. Additional information always welcome: email bratton@cruzio. DATELINE October 2. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. It’s really time to take a more careful look at where the big money is going in this next City Council election. Film Watch Mifune: The Last Samurai 2016 Online FreeRead 'The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema'. As the World Cup kicks off in South Africa, now's the time to celebrate the. Check out this list and see how many candidates Pamela Comstock gives money to, check out David Terrazas contributions, look who’s backing Robert Singleton, and that Martine Watkins has many, many of our biggest developers and investors behind her. Brown’s political and moneyed backers all know they can count on his votes. HITLER REACTS TO TRUMP GETTING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. Think ahead and realize what keeping this City Council and Cynthia’s . More of the same police practices, continuing financial favors for developers, to hell with the homeless, never mind the environment. Bring on Corridor stacking, and on and on. What again was the reason we moved here? Carter Burwell is Best Film Composer of the Year at the 16th WSAwards, Jeff Beal is Best Television Composer of the Year. On 19 October, the World Soundtrack Academy. The first official trailer has debuted online for a fantastic documentary. Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. I attended the UC Santa Cruz forum on the Affordable Housing Crisis held at the MAH last Thursday ( 10/13). The focus was on the rental. To be this cruel to our growing middle class? We do need a Brand New Council. Read about these very courageous, and energetic candidates and remember they are on Bernie Sanders side. HILLARY CLINTON IN SANTA CRUZ. It seems strange that the Sentinel wouldn’t bring up and inform our newcomers about Hillary Clinton’s visit to Santa Cruz back in 1. Karen and Darrell Darling (right wing Democrats) had a son, Adam. He worked with Washington officials including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Ron and Adam were killed in the crash of an . Hillary came here to attend Adam’s memorial and also dedicated a special placque to him in the Soquel Cemetary. The Sentinel did say something about this back in February, but it does show that very human side of Hillary. Besides that, we don’t get and never have had many presidential candidates or presidents visit here. They wrote an unprecedented story about that endorsement, check it out. It also goes into detail about us electing our first female president and what it will mean. Sherry Conable sent this link to a very unusual editorial from KSBW. Sean was 3. 2 years old and the loving father of a four year old. He was brandishing a metal rake when he was killed. So far, the audio recording of the event, the video recording, and the ames of the officers involved have not been released. There was aan attempt to get many citizens to speak to our City Council last Tuesday (1. Those attending were hoping to ask the Council for. Pay attention to this council reaction, and how much longer do we want their cold and uninvolved treatment of our community???)RUSH TO JUDGMENTThe Wharf Master Plan is on the fast track for city council approval. The viewing holes for the sea lions will be covered up. Other changes include a new landing for large boats at the wharf’s end and a doubling of the current wharf businesses by adding upper stories and infilling with a goal of more take- out food. All this with essentially no increase in parking except what can be achieved through restriping and narrowing the width of the current parking stalls. In August, while in Florida, I wrote about discovering that the Wharf Master Plan’s environmental review was on the next- day’s city council agenda. A quick email to council objecting to their lack of attention to federally protected bird species, notably Pigeon Guillemots that fly from Puget Sound to the Santa Cruz wharf each year, and also copied to astute environmentalists, resulted in a number of emails to council addressing bird and lighting issues and calling for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). In response, obviously advised by their attorneys, the city postponed the issue and released a revised Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) for public review focusing on the bird and lighting issues but no EIR. The review period for the revised MND started on October 1. November 1. 6th. The Planning Commission will hear testimony and vote on the Wharf Master Plan on November 1. No, that is not a typo. City Council will hear testimony and vote on the Wharf Master Plan on November 2. Consider that agendas for both Planning Commission and City Council are prepared a week in advance of the date of the meeting and you can see that staff is not waiting for the close of the public comment period before preparing their agenda report with their recommendations for approval. That’s rather arrogant towards the public in my opinion. The revised MND is still inadequate with respect to impacts on marine mammals and birds. The biologist whom they hired to weigh in on the Pigeon Guillemot and other protected bird species concludes that any significant impact on the birds (he admits to a significant impact) can be mitigated by having a biologist look at the site for nests 7 days before pile driving begins. If a Guillemot is nesting they will stop work until the end of nesting season or keep 3. Since Pigeon Guillemots’ nesting season extends from February to September, how does one visit determine anything except that there is or isn’t nesting going on that day? What if work on the first of the 8. Guillemots arrive from Puget Sound a week later in the middle of pile driving? The MND is silent on this more likely scenario. There is no mention of the nesting cormorants under the wharf. How do you feel about the potential loss of thousands of dollars of public moneys? When the city refused to undertake any environmental review for weakening its Heritage Tree Ordinance they were sued and lost and subsequently had to pay out of pocket around $3. CEQA lawyers and the appellant’s lawyers. The MND for the Wharf Master Plan is weak and will be legally challenged with the potential for a similar outcome. The public purse should not be so carelessly handled in the name of expediency. The desire to have the current council make the decision in favor of the Wharf Master Plan rather than leave the decision to the unknowns of a new council one meeting later is driving this schedule. Such a rush to judgment makes it difficult for any council member to ask for further information, clarification or careful review of public comment and staff response. For example, beyond birds, the new 8. ACZA (ammoniacal copper zinc arsenate) that led to concerns raised by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. An EIR would address such issues rather than relying on anecdotal statements. The lowered western walk- bikeway has not been properly evaluated with respect to the impact of bigger storms in a rising sea level world as requested by the California Coastal Commission. These are just a few examples. If you feel as I do that this process is a betrayal of public trust, you know where to direct your comments. The winning bid will be approved by the County Board of Supervisors November 1. February or March. Another gem we learned was that Phase II of the improvements are now in the works. Sohriakoff if citizens will get an opportunity to review the project? By the way, Soquel Creek Water District got started on the new Granite Way well last week by drilling and pouring a cement casing for that 1. Tim Fillmore at County Environmental Health had recommended? Taj Dufour, refused to answer. Cheers, Becky Steinbruner”. She has fought for water, fire, emergency preparedness, and for road repair. She ran for Second District County Supervisor in 2. PATTON’S PROGRAM. From Gary’s Two Worlds website. The article reported on a meeting at which John Laird, California Secretary of Resources, and formerly Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz, provided information on the many ballot measures facing California voters on November 8th. It is Smith’s contention that a person’s vote “counts as a statistic,” and that “the more statistics you generate, the bigger an impact it has on politicians when they’re deciding what to do.” Please let me correct the record. It happens that I teach in the Politics Department at UC Santa Cruz, though I don’t think I ever ran across Morgan Smith. I was also elected to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors five times, and lost an election to the California State Assembly, so I have some practical experience. Believe me, when I campaigned for office, in elections that were always quite close, it became obvious to me that voting “counts.”In fact, voting can be seen as an amazing kind of “trick,” by which we, as a collective group of individuals, mobilize our small increments of individual power (our individual ability to do work) into the kind of massive power that builds dams and bridges, goes to war, and determines what the rules will be that govern our common life. We mobilize our personal power, individually, in all of our daily activities; none of us, however, using only our individual power, has the ability to accomplish any large project. If we, collectively, want to build a dam or a highway, to go to war or to make the peace, we need to act in common. And how do we actually do that, in fact? Here’s how. We agree that we will transfer most of our individual power, subject to the limitations imposed by the Constitution, to elected representatives, who will then be granted the right to “govern” us. Political science students and professors sometimes call this the “social contract.” It’s a bargain we make with each other. We give up a large part of our “personal” and “individual” power so as to be able to conjoin our individual power with the individual power of others, and by doing so, we achieve a larger, common power, capable of doing great things, and accomplishing large projects, collectively. The money we individually earn can be collected from us, as our elected representatives set taxes, high or low, and specify from where the revenue comes. Trailer Watch: Mifune: The Last Samurai“Mifune’s performance is layered, complex. He studied the movement of lions. He’s like a caged animal,” says Martin Scorsese in the (above) trailer for Mifune: The Last Samurai. Mifune appeared in nearly 1. Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood.
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