“We’re responding every day to new information,” said Santa Monica City Manager, Lamont Ewell, about the economic uncertainty that surrounds this year’s budget. “We’re building wings as we jump off the cliff.”The budget will be […]
There’s good news and bad news on the higher education front in California these days, but so far the bad news is trumping the good.First the good news: California high schools over the last few […]
Give our governor one thing: Rome wasn’t built in a day, but Arnold can fabricate a sizeable minor league media stink-up overnight. Of course Schwarzenegger both benefits and suffers because of his previous career as […]
Education is top-of-mind these days. For starters, last Friday I happened to be at a teacher meeting in Columbus, Ohio, and heard Obama’s Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, speak. Among other things, Duncan notes that there […]
In The Wicked Wit of the West, Santa Monica writer Hank Rosenfeld talks with octogenarian humor writer Irv Brecher. And wow, does Brecher talk. This book is not, as Rosenfeld explains, a memoir or autobiography […]
More than 35 people gave public comment at Tuesday’s City Council meeting on an agenda item outlining the redevelopment agency’s funding priority recommendations for capitol improvement projects. More than half the speakers, including a handful […]
12 students from Samohi will be racing their 16’ solar boat “RETHINK,” representing their school and the City of Santa Monica in the Metropolitan Water District’s 2009 Solar Cup from Thursday through Sunday, May 14-17. […]
This week we all got a lesson in what being Miss California really means. When Miss California’s Carrie Prejean was confronted by celebublogger Perez Hilton and outed for opposing gay marriage, suddenly the title of […]
(NAPSI)—If a family vacation isn’t in the budget this season, there are plenty of affordable ways to still have fun in the sun. That’s good news, considering that AAA recently recommended two adults on vacation […]
Laura WildeMirror Contributing Writer ARIESWatch how you respond to people. It’s important not to say everything you think at the exact moment you think it. You should practice self-censoring. Try to think about how it […]
