Water board race beginning to boil pg. 2 Annual Car Show by the Sea returns pg. 4 November ballot features both new and familiar faces for Carson offices pg. 5 SP International Film Festival invites art, music and technology to the party pg. 11
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former Smart & Final store on N. Pacific Ave.
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Clinton Strips Trump’s Façade in First Debate
Media Still Reluctant to See
By Paul Rosenberg, Senior Editor Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a decisive victory in the first presidential debate Sept. 26, but media commentators stuck with their decades-long skepticism. In a CNN poll, voters thought Clinton won by a 62-27 percent margin, 54-33 percent among independents. But commentator Sarah Kendzior summed up the media dynamic in a tweet: “Yesterday saw headlines proclaiming Trump the winner before debate began. Now seeing headlines saying HRC won but asking if it matters...” Presidential historian Michael Beschloss provided some much-needed historical
perspective on MSNBC’s debate aftershow. It mattered because Trump squandered a golden opportunity, he explained. He had expected Trump to give a performance like John Kennedy in 1960, Jimmy Carter in 1976, and Ronald Reagan in 1980: one that assured voters they belonged on the national stage. “I was just astounded at how unprepared he was, especially on national security, of all things,” Beschloss said. “That discussion of nuclear policy was almost incoherent. How thin-skinned he was and obsessed with defending elements of his personal history,
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Pacific to open a homeless storage facility. According to the flyer, the facility would be able to hold 450 storage units. The flyer stated that the facility would draw homeless people, including “the mentally unstable, violent and as seen on various San Pedro social media pages, sexual deviants and drug users.” Up until Central San Pedro Neighborhood council member Danielle Sandoval took responsibility for printing and distributing the flyer at the rally, the author of the flyer was unknown. But Sandoval wasn’t alone. Other organizers included Central Neighborhood Council members Donald Galaz and a Barton Hill Elementary booster organization. Jose Guerrero, 42, one of the speakers at the rally identified himself as a member of the recently formed Barton Hill Platinum Association. “This is my school,” Guerrero said. “This is my community. [I was] born and raised in this part of San Pedro, the central part of San Pedro. The proposed site for the homeless storage facility is the “How is it OK to put something in
f the Sept. 25 rally on the steps of Barton Hill Elementary school was any indication, District 15 Councilman Joe Buscaino has some explaining to do at his Oct. 4 town hall meeting on the homeless storage facility in San Pedro. About 60 residents showed up for the Sept. 25 rally opposing the proposed storage facility for the homeless on North Pacific Avenue in San Pedro. Flyers distributed more than a week prior alleged that the council office and the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce were seeking permits to use a former Smart & Final store on 227 N.
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Jose Guerrero spoke at a rally in front of Barton Hill Elementary school protesting the proposed homeless storage facility at 227 N. Pacific Avenue in San Pedro. Photo by Terelle Jerricks
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