February 28, 2026
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Point of View:: Electronic Voting Machines Not Reliabe

The very bedrock of our democracy is in serious jeopardy this holiday season, yet the problem is receiving virtually no attention from the mainstream media. All across this country in the next month or so, […]

In His Opinion:: At Uncle Joe’s

I believe it was the winter of 1943 or l944 when I was six or seven that a particularly fierce blizzard hit my family as we drove from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Chicago. My father, […]

Letters to the Editor:

Opposes Immigration Act To the editor: I am writing to urge you to oppose the “Border and Immigration Enforcement Act of 2005” H.R. 4437 which has been introduced by Congressman Sensenbrenner. Our nation’s security depends […]

“The Blessings of Liberty”:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty […]

City Staff Commits a Farce:

Farce is sometimes amusing, but it’s rarely as amusing as its authors think it is, and it’s never amusing, much less welcome, at City Council meetings. Item 8-B at last week’s Council meeting was a […]

Former SM City Manager Goes to Malibu:

Former Santa Monica City Manager John Jalili has been named interim City Manager of Malibu.Bumped up from Deputy City Manager in 1983, following the resignation of City Manager John Alschuler, Jalili presided here until he […]

Cars Returned to the Pier Last Friday:

Following a month-long shutdown, during which crews restored the Santa Monica Pier;s wooden deck and upgraded its substructure, the pier and its parking lot reopened to vehicular traffic on Friday, December 16. With the completion […]

Macerich Distributes Red Buckets to 110 Local Families:

In cooperation with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, Macerich Company employees delivered the ingredients for holiday meals to 110 families, culminating the fourth annual Big Red Bucket corporate food drive. Each16-gallon bucket contains specified […]