On September 8, 2005, the Rustic Canyon Local Volunteer Neighborhood Oversight Committee (LVNOC), chaired by Nelson Willis, met in the Center to review the progress of Prop K renovations to the Park building and grounds. […]

Venice Family Clinic has won the 2005 Foster G. McGaw Prize, which includes a $100,000 grant. One of the highest and most prestigious honors in its field, the Prize honors hospitals, health systems, integrated networks […]

On Friday, January 27, the Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine (IAMMM, www.iammm.org) held a meeting at Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica of health care experts, physicians and lawmakers, including Congresswomen Dianne […]

A calculated plan to disguise aSneaky end run around FISA.

Wants seriesTo the editor:Thanks for having the spine to publish Dan Hamburg’s article “Government Of, By and For the Pharmaceutical Companies.” I hope it will be just the first in a series. After he’s done […]

Several dozen residents expressed their displeasure with the City’s “Shape the Future 2025 Draft Alternatives” at last week’s City Council meeting. One of the sharpest critiques follows: “Good evening. My name is Emmalie Hodgin and […]

Should the rich be richer or should the super-rich be richer? That, as the Bard wrote, is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler to inflate the income of those making a million dollars or more per […]

A newly approved system of insulin delivery into the blood streams of diabetes patients via the inhalation of a fine insulin powder through a plastic device could reduce or eliminate the need for insulin injections […]

Given everything, there is remarkably little NIMBYISM (Not In My Backyard in Santa Monica) but it has recently surfaced on, of all places, the beach – that last bastion of absolute democracy. The joy of […]

President George W. Bush enjoys saying that judges don’t make law, they interpret it, yet Bush himself is chiefly notable for unmaking or ignoring existing laws. Last week, when Democratic Senators threatened to mount a […]