Susan Shelley
Columnist and Editorial Board Member at Southern California News Group
Columnist, member of the editorial board of the Southern California News Group, 11 daily papers including the LA Daily News, Orange County Register
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sandiegometro.com | Susan Shelley |Alexei Koseff |Evan Gahr
By Susan Shelley | OC RegisterThe city of Santa Monica proudly claims the title of “birthplace of competitive beach volleyball” but will not host Olympic beach volleyball in 2028. Nearly two years of negotiations between Santa Monica and the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, known as LA28, have just ended. The parties were unable to reach a “Venue City Games Agreement.”Before you ask why, you should see what hosting Olympic events can do to a city budget.
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dailynews.com | Susan Shelley
Reynold Hoover, CEO of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, speaks during the 144th International Olympic Committee session, in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) UPDATED: April 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM PDTIt sure looks like LA28 is trying to throw a big party while shifting massive costs to the taxpayers. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here.
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pasadenastarnews.com | Susan Shelley
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ocregister.com | Susan Shelley
The city of Santa Monica proudly claims the title of “birthplace of competitive beach volleyball” but will not host Olympic beach volleyball in 2028. Nearly two years of negotiations between Santa Monica and the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, known as LA28, have just ended. The parties were unable to reach a “Venue City Games Agreement.”Before you ask why, you should see what hosting Olympic events can do to a city budget.
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2 weeks ago |
ocregister.com | Susan Shelley
It’s appropriate that on April 1, the national day of jokes, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove decided to launch a battle of wits with journalist Matt Taibbi. She was so brave to go in unarmed. Kamlager-Dove is the top Democrat on a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that was holding a hearing on government censorship of Americans’ constitutionally protected free speech on social media. Taibbi was one of the witnesses.
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The cost of living is higher in California than in other states because of the green delusion that the state must run on solar and wind power, and the related mandates on utilities that require long-term contracts to buy that power. And then we also have to pay for real power: https://t.co/nDU5VnkoJa
Slush funds are legal in California. Officials can file a Statement of Intention for primaries as far off as 2034, open a bank account and transfer or raise funds into it. (But Lara accepted the campaign spending limits, so those Belvedere Martinis could eventually be a problem.) https://t.co/YEGogCLA31
Here’s a $1,001 dinner at Piatti, an Italian restaurant in Sac. This was an 8-person “campaign strategy meeting” Lara held last year for his run for Lt. governor. One problem: Lara isn’t really running for the seat — he just set up a committee to park & raise more campaign cash https://t.co/Ih1TUfBCKs
"We will know by September."
RFK Jr. pledged that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic.” “The autism rate, the most recent numbers we think are about 1 in 31 … up from 1 in 10,000 when I was a kid.” “We’ve launched a massive research effort that’s gonna involve hundreds of https://t.co/HvBD6ORIFC
