Because Republicans in Congress have steadfastly stymied attempts to get the federal government to act against global warming and climate change, critics of California’s new carbon trading rules usually get little contradiction when they insist […]
President Barack Obama gave a great State of the Union speech this year – great in that he presented himself as statesmanlike, reasonable, sane, intelligent, and a consensus builder. However, it was not, I believe, […]
Santa Monica’s council members are accountable to the voting public every two years. Now, the three city employees who are appointed by the council will also be accountable on an annual basis, thanks to a […]
As much as we might suspect the presence of magic or even some sort of curse, the workings of your automobile engine and the performance of your car are related to mechanical explanations. Compression, leaky […]
Plans to build a new Walgreens on the southeast corner of Lincoln Boulevard and Pico Boulevard might be finding opposition from the Santa Monica Police Department. The new Walgreens is planned to be located across […]
Rain can often cancel baseball games, but it seems it isn’t enough to cancel a beach cleanup with the Los Angeles Dodgers in Santa Monica on Feb. 15. Nearly 300 fans braved the drizzle to […]
On Friday, Feb. 4, at 9:07 a.m. officers were called to the food court at the Third Street Promenade, located on the1300 block of Third Street, in response to a report of a man trying […]
A proposition to make the City’s mayor a position directly elected by voters was dashed at the city council’s retreat at the Santa Monica Main Library on Feb. 13. The Santa Monica City Council voted […]
A report released on Feb. 7 by the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review took issue with some of the witness interviewing techniques, witness follow-up, and report writing conducted by the Santa Monica Police […]
[Editor’s Note: The is the last installment on a series about short pay sales, which are when an owner pays off a loan by paying less than what is currently owed on it. A short […]
