The poll numbers on liquefied natural gas this fall were startling, especially to individuals who attended the only large-scale public hearing ever held in California about LNG. By a 63-19 percent margin, the usually reliable […]
Authenticity. At a time when so much of what we connect with has the quintessence of a pair of Chinese blue jeans, Studs Terkel kept weaving, telling American narrative from the fabric of work and […]
Dateline: USA. News reports coming from every state confirm long lines of peaceful and patient voters. As I write this, we don’t know the results. As you read this, we will. You can bet the […]
Students at Santa Monica High School participated in a MyVote California Student Mock General Election on October 30. The 1,406 students who cast ballots had the opportunity to vote for president and on all the […]
Recent shootings in Santa Monica and Venice have been attributed by some to an escalating gang war between a Santa Monica street gang and one from Venice, although that interpretation of the events may be […]
From a distance, the replica of a refugee camp nestled in the parking lot north of Santa Monica Pier didn’t look very big. The tiny buildings and tents inside a fence looked like something that […]
At 9:30 a.m. on Election Day, the library at Will Rogers Learning Community opened as a polling place for the fifth graders’ “mock election” for President of the United States. Students filed into the library […]
America may have voted for Change, as the watchword of the Obama campaign had it, but Santa Monica reelected all of the incumbents running on November 4 in every race on the local ballot. The […]
Long-time Santa Monica resident David Wright, the publisher of Singular magazine, is on a mission. His new publication, aimed at people who are single by choice, seeks to remove the many negative connotations to those […]
