The governor is a liar. The so-called special election is a fraud. Voters face a single overarching referendum on November 8: Are we going to give massive new powers to a lying governor who abuses […]

It is interesting to note the major parallels between the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both earned fame as macho movie stars – Reagan on a horse and Arnold as a bionic […]

This Christmas, give the gift that keeps on giving: a water buffalo. I’m serious. You can get one for 250 bucks. (No airbags, no cup holder.) There’s a catch: You don’t get to keep it. […]

Gratitude To the editor: Thank you for printing the comprehensive explanation of the ballot initiatives and their impact on women by Kelly Hayes-Raitt. I was planning on voting, but now I have a clearer idea […]

The segregation laws that had prevailed in the American South since the end of the Civil War were grotesque, immoral, barbaric and surely unconstitutional. One such law required black people in Montgomery, Alabama to sit […]

When Arnold Schwarzenegger was a movie star, if he didn’t like the script, he could order changes, and the changes would be made, because a movie set is not a democracy. When he ran for […]

California Senator Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, issued the following statement on Friday, October 28, following the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby on two counts of perjury and two counts […]

Herbert Stothart II, a long-time professor of Art History at Santa Monica College, and the son of composer Herbert Stothart died Thursday, October 6, following a stroke. He was 74. Born on November 23, 1929 […]

Last Sunday the Santa Monica High School Surf Team trekked to the “Tar Pits” break in Carpinteria for the first Interscholastic Surf Federation meet of the ’05-’06 season.While several Samohi Vikings advanced to the second […]

Last Thursday Ana Zeledon Friendly, MPH, Associate Director of the Venice Family Clinic, presented a $20,000 check to the City of Santa Monica for the purchase of exercise equipment for the Santa Monica Police Activities […]