Santa Monica Librarian Patty Wong Wins 2021-2022 ALA Presidency

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The American Library Association announced this week that Patricia "Patty" M. Wong, city librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library in Santa Monica, Calif., has been elected ALA president for 2021-2022. Wong received 6,718 votes. Her opponent, Steven Yates, assistant director of the University of Alabama School of Library and Information ...
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Apple's 'Creativity goes on' shows perseverance of creativity in tough times

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He shows how to use features of your home to create compelling architectural photography. Adrian from Apple Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica heads up the third class, "Shoot photos full of personality with iPhone." This class is focused on showing how you can up your portrait photography game through scene staging and utilizing the iPhone ...
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“It’s going to get worse”: Resi landlords take hit on April rental income

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A more significant drop next month will have devastating effects, they added. Neil Shekhter, whose companies own 2,200 apartments in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, said about 85 percent of his tenants had paid their rent as of April 7. “When you lose 15 percent of your rental revenue,” he said, landlords begin to not have enough money to pay ...
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Coronavirus fallout: Rent hikes fall in 59% of SoCal cities. Who was No. 1?

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Where was the biggest rent hikes in the region? Santa Monica, where its $3,929 rents, the highest in SoCal, rose at a 5.36% annual pace in March vs. declining 0.29% a year earlier (so a 5.65 percentage-point jump). List of 95 cities and their rent trends is below.
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