As a fellow Wisconsinite I agree with Steve Stajich’s solution to the LA Times dilemma, to follow the example of the Green Bay Packers and have the community buy the paper.  I’ve a few rolls […]

The Homeless Situation Q: What steps should be taken to deal with the homeless situation in Santa Monica? [150 words] Terry O’Day Santa Monica has roughly 1,000 chronically homeless people in its streets, parks and […]

The Santa Monica ballot on November 7 will contain, in addition to state and local candidates and an array of state propositions, four city measures and a school district bond measure. Herewith, an overview of […]

Richard Darilek, a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation, has been appointed the new director of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute (RQPI), RAND President and CEO James A. Thomson announced. Darilek will be based in Doha, […]

Santa Monica’s City Council voted unanimously to amend the City’s ordinance for payment of temporary relocation benefits because the law is not specific enough about the amounts to be paid. Under the amendment, which was […]

As magical as the Santa Monica Farmers’ Markets are, a lot of hard work goes into putting them together each week, and the market managers deserve a lot of credit.  Ted Galvan, otherwise known as […]

In one of his seminal interviews with Bill Moyers, the famed mythologist Joseph Campbell observed that life is not, as many people believe, a search for meaning, but rather, the search for an experience of […]

Since St. Monica has lost all five of its football games this season, Coach Chris Caminiti can measure progress not with final scores but how his small but scrappy team competes. Although St. Monica lost […]

Malibu High scored an impressive 28-0 non-league football victory over Murphy Friday night, October 6. “It was a good win,” said Malibu coach Ray Humphrey, who spent 12 years as a Samohi assistant before joining […]

To borrow a line from Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà vu all over again” – for the second October in a row one of our two big league baseball teams went down in flames in […]