It was inevitable that the coverage of Katrina’s damage would eventually find a way to ease on over to something positive about cats or puppies or… you beat me to it: Dolphins. Last week, two […]

Difference of opinion To the editor: In the Sept. 14 issue a reader responds to a letter I had written. My letter was, in turn, a response to a letter from the previous issue. The […]

The Los Angeles Times, Santa Monica senior staff and City Council members, and conventional developers have this in common: they’re all at least four clicks behind the curve. Last week, the Times ran an article […]

It’s a world class beach town. It’s 130 years old, measures eight square miles, and is arguably the densest city in Southern California. It has 85,000 residents, 70 percent of whom are renters. Located on […]

It is increasingly clear that our dazzling, lucid, 1930s Streamline Moderne City Hall has Byzantine aspects. In theory, City Hall’s sole reason for being is to serve the residents of Santa Monica, but, in fact, […]

From the beginning, motion pictures have been America’s most influential, most persuasive and most pervasive art. In the 1930s, 82 percent of the American people went to the movies every week. Fusing all the other […]

By yesterday afternoon, the Santa Monica chapter of the American Red Cross had opened 107 displaced persons cases, representing some 150 individuals who have come here from the ravaged Gulf Coast area. In the last […]

Saint John’s Health Center and its parent company, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Systems, have been working with the Mississippi Nursing Board and the Department of Health and Human Services to alleviate the need […]

Everychild Foundation held a drive for baby food and supplies for Hurricane Katrina evacuees who will be temporarily housed in the Los Angeles area. In the days leading up to Everychild’s annual Family Day service […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Distrct Board of Education is scheduled to discuss the charges of its District Advisory Committees, District staff’s response to the Special Education Strategic Plan, and an evaluation of Superintendent John […]