Meals on Wheels West will hold “Mayors For Meals Day” on Wednesday, March 22, in conjunction with the national Meal on Wheels/March For Meals campaign.Santa Monica Mayor Holbrook and Malibu Mayor Andy Stern will demonstrate […]

Senators Kennedy, Dayton and Lautenberg CosponsorIn response to a recent Army report that found more than a third of returning soldiers and Marines who served in Iraq later sought help for mental health problems, U.S. […]

One of the hottest environmental battles has been over oil drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but the sad reality is that much of the Arctic plain will probably be […]

Very dire predictionsBy those assembled were heardBush didn’t ask a questionAnd barely said a word.

It’s no longer news that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger long ago broke the first promise he made upon declaring himself a candidate in 2003: he would never take campaign contributions from special interests.Since then, of course, […]

Today the rain washes your bloodAnd wipes it from the sidewalk There remains only your sunny smileAnd your tall baseball batLeaning against the wall, And your backpack full of booksWaiting for your shoulders. Curse the […]

Iraqi insurgents, hurricanes and low-income Medicare recipients have three things in common. Each has been at the center of a policy disaster. In each case experts warned about the impending disaster. And in each case […]

The inclination is to look for a rational line running through the killing of 15 year-old Eduardo “Eddie” Lopez. An explanation. A sequence of events we might understand. A reason. There may not be one. […]

To the editor: The Mayor, City Council and I join the community in mourning the death of a fine young man on February 28. Eddie Lopez, a popular student athlete at Samohi, was killed by […]

Seven years ago, I invited Michael Rosenthal, whom I’d never met, to join me in a very dodgy enterprise: the creation of a new independent weekly newspaper in Santa Monica. To our mutual surprise, he […]