With a 5 to 1 vote, Santa Monica’s Planning Commission approved a new Development Review Permit (DRP) for the Big Blue Bus (BBB) Facility Master Plan, with conditions. A new DRP was necessary because the […]

The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Emily Bloomfield, Shane McLoud, Kelly Pye and Barry Snell in the race for School District Board, and Tom Donner, Nancy Greenstein and Louise Jaffe in the College […]

As the November 7 mid-term elections approach, things are getting hot: Let’s start with the quality of political rhetoric, which hit the fan big time on the Senate floor on June 24, 2004, when Vice […]

There’s one prominent Republican who has remained silent during the flood of publicity and recriminations surrounding lurid emails sent by GOP Congressman Mark Foley of Florida to teenage male Congressional pages. He lives in California. […]

There was a time, an especially sweet time for journalism students, when it felt like America’s newspapers were a vital ingredient in our concept of freedom. The crescendo of that romantic passage, for one generation […]

Dude, Where’s Our Constitution? What has happened to the Bill of Rights? It seems to mean nothing anymore. The current Administration chooses to ignore our rights. One example is the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment […]

I thought I would miss the old library auditorium, but I don’t. The new one is clean and bright and attaches itself wonderfully to the outdoors and to the newly built Main Library. I was […]

The Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition (WSHC) is giving community support honors to 12 businesses at its 11th Annual Success Breakfast on Friday, October 6, at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel. Among the businesses recognized for […]

The Cold War must truly be over, as Americans worked together with Russians and the Chinese to create “The Mobile Motion Picture” truck. The truck, built on a Ford F-450, is expected to be used […]