The Santa Monica Homeless Community Court opened for business on Friday afternoon, February 2, in the City Council Chambers at City Hall. The new court had been heavily lobbied by Ed Edelman, the City’s Special […]

With a brief and welcome break in the recent cold snap in D.C., 50-degree weather and sunny skies on Saturday, January 27, welcomed nearly 500,000 anti-war demonstrators from across the country to the Mall in […]

If ever there was a no-brainer in California’s Legislature, it is the current proposal to move this state’s presidential primary vote up from early June to early February. The only real question to be answered […]

They are inescapable, those conversations comparing life in New York to life in Los Angeles. Even people who haven’t lived in either city will enter into them, debating the various good and bad features of […]

If you believe that the mob scene you placed on the front page of the Mirror is what “Democracy looks like,” then God help us all. It looks more like something you see in the […]

Did anybody notice how “godly” the Superbowl ended up being? The winners were all awash in their thanks to the almighty and how they could not have done it without his (her) help. I began […]

The City’s new Finance Director, Carol O. Swindell, told the City Council Tuesday that the economy-both nationally and statewide – “is giving mixed signals.” On the positive side, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is up, […]

Youth employment programs and a teacher Home Visit Program took center stage as concrete strategies when about 100 people gathered on a Tuesday evening, January 30, at St. Anne’s Church and Shrine to address youth […]

The Westside Shelter and Hunger Coalition has raised over $20,000 in connection with Friday’s February 2 SuperBowl-A-Thon XI fundraising event, according to director Lisa Fisher, although the figure is only an estimate as the group […]

         Stung by an improbable last second loss at Windward three nights earlier, Crossroads needed a win over Brentwood Friday to salvage its playoff hopes.          The Crossroads gym was filled to capacity, the rooting […]