Regarding Michael Rosenthal’s November 15 column: Marijuana prohibition has done little other than burden millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens with criminal records. The University of Michigan’s “Monitoring the Future Study” reports that lifetime use of […]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I’ve been anxious to see some great menu items using sweet potatoes and yams; my wife has one that adds Comice pears to it for those with a sweet tooth. Already pumpkin […]

Santa Monica’s City Council took the next step to move the City’s ongoing update of its Land Use And Circulation Elements forward by endorsing the “Industrial Lands Principles” that were developed by the community through […]

Have your kids ever wondered about becoming leaders? Well, that’s exactly what 67 3rd-5th graders from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District learned about at the first Districtwide Student Leadership Conference. The conference, held at […]

The audit being constructed by the school district of its special education practices is fundamentally flawed and should not be allowed to proceed. On December 3, a district committee is scheduled to select an outside […]

Over the last year, consumer demand for hybrid and other eco-friendly vehicles jumped a staggering 87 percent. Whether this is a result of a growing national environmental conscience or the fact that Americans would rather […]

(l-r) KCRW Volunteer Coordinator Connie Alvarez and her mother Blanca Alvarez in front of the StoryCorps Airstream mobile studio on the Promenade when they recorded their interview last year.photo by Gregg Lewis

StoryCorps, the continuing national storytelling project now entering its fifth year, has set up its mobile recording studio housed in a silver Airstream trailer at the north end of the Third Street Promenade (at Wilshire […]

Al Venegas was promoted to captain by the Santa Monica Police Department in a ceremony before a near-capacity audience in City Council Chambers on Tuesday, November 13.  Venegas becomes one of three captains in the […]