The Los Angeles Department of City Planning is soliciting public comments and suggestions regarding its plans to define guidelines for future development on Lincoln Boulevard, including changes to signage or landscaping as well as new […]

A solar-powered streetlight has debuted in the “Presidents’ Row” neighborhood of Venice, and the power of daylight sunshine is now stored to illuminate residential Victoria Avenue long after the sun has set. Calling this the […]

Creative Marketing Tuesday, March 20 at 7:20 p.m. – Lincoln and Pico boulevards – A 19-year-old fellow had been working in a video game store – in that strip mall by Tommy’s Burgers -– since […]

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Dianne Talarico gave a presentation of her 2025 Plan: A Vision For Our Future at a League of Women Voters meeting on Saturday, March 24. Talarico emphasized that the […]

The White House thinks you should put up with 200 to 400 tons of smog-causing pollutants including nitrogen oxide exhaust equal to 60,000 to 120,000 daily car trips to have Australia’s BHP-Billiton (BHPB) import liquefied […]

Walt Whitman heard America singing.  In a far less poetic manner over the last few weeks, Americans heard the Internet squeaking.  It was the kind of sound produced by any unpleasant friction; say for example, […]

Sometimes statistics can be employed to mislead and to lie; other times they can shine the light on startling realities. I offer a few this week, which, I believe, fall in that latter category. First, […]

In the matter of Santa Monica Place, addressed by Steve Stajich in the article week of March 22-28, 2007, I would like to add my 2 cents plain. I used to spend time regularly at […]

Buy a lawn mower or gasoline-powered weed whacker in California this spring and you’ll be contributing to the war on smog, not to mention reducing greenhouse gases that help cause global warming. That’s because after […]

World Water Day, designated in 1992 when the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, is an international day of observance and action to draw attention to the plight of the more than one billion […]