Watching the Los Angeles Times slowly shrivel is like watching the slow death of an old friend. The paper is not only losing weight, but with scores of senior scribes laid off, the Times appears […]

Dear Editor, Santa Monica’s “Ride Share” program is certainly admirable in their intent but from my experiences very misguided. As a new city employee someone from that program showed me how to fill out a […]

City Council watchers are talking about the anticipated February 24 Council vote to fill Herb Katz’s seat. A five-time council member, Katz, was well known for his support for education, his interest in city planning, […]

Twice in the last 30 years, natural gas companies have tried to use scare tactics to convince Californians to allow building of huge liquefied natural gas terminals along this state’s coast. Both times, environmental and […]

Full disclosure: I worked full-time as a stand-up comic from about 1980 to 1990, and it was a great period in my life. I was traveling all over America on somebody else’s dime, my peers […]

The last three football coaches at St. Monica combined for one win and 37 losses. Now Larry Muno has been hired to upgrade the program. Muno inherits a one-game winning streak. St. Monica defeated Salesian, […]

Noah Gottlieb, Santa Monica College’s all-Western State Conference guard the last two basketball seasons, had the first triple double of his college career in late January. Gottlieb, now a junior at Chaminade University in Honolulu, […]

When the Santa Monica High football coaching job became available, a lot of people thought Travis Clark would be a worthy candidate. “The phone started ringing and the emails came in from the community,” said […]

It’s ironic that Jona Frank’s new photography exhibit “Church and State” and her book Right: Portraits From The Evangelical Ivy league are appearing at the end of the George W. Bush years. Frank’s studies of […]