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, […]

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, […]

The fact that Richard Pryor and Eugene McCarthy passed on at nearly the same time made me think that the universe doesn’t always “move in mysterious ways” and often moves with an acute sense of […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of America, will be on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica from Monday, January 9 to Sunday, February 5 to collect stories […]