The downturn in the economy has impacted philanthropic giving but not in the ways most people would expect.At a Foundation Center Proposal Writing Basics presentation at the Santa Monica Main Library on March 9, the […]

BustOn Sunday, March 15, at around 5:15 p.m. Santa Monica Police Department Narcotics Investigators, in collaboration with agents from ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and officers from El Monte Police Department, apprehended a suspicious person, […]

The recession has been taking a toll on almost everything in a negative way but in Santa Monica there is a silver lining. The population of long-term rent control units has become more stable so […]

It was a bad idea that deserved to die: the six-lane Foothill South toll road through a popular Orange County/San Diego County state park. It violated the principle that parkland is permanently protected. The California […]

Dear Editor, PORNOGRAPHY IN THE LIBRARY? As a grateful patron of the lovely Santa Monica Library, I was shocked to look up from my computer screen in Computer Commons and discover that I was inadvertently […]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants a constitutional convention because he thinks that’s a way to solve all California’s governmental problems in one fell swoop.Business groups like the Bay Area Council also want a convention. So does […]

Although the Santa Monica High boys basketball team was eliminated in the first round of the state tournament, Coach James Hecht considers the season a grand success.The Vikings went 22-9, won three games in the […]

Everyone knows that summertime is a lazy, warm, happy time to hang out with our little ones; but it’s also the best time to eat all the fruit that is hanging around! Everything is ripe, […]