There’s a juxtaposition here Many Americans don’t like: Soldiers getting killed in a war Our leader getting on his bike. The White House does all that it can To make Bush look like a champ […]

Something struck me last year at the “Back to School” PTA meeting. It was hearing the principal of my child’s elementary school speak about the district’s goal of “raising achievement for all students, while simultaneously […]

Two recent articles on education, one in Newsweek, the other in Education Week, are emblematic of much of what is wrong in American education and society, although this is not the intent of either article. […]

Anyone from my generation can probably, when conditions demand it, sing at least the first two lines of the “Miss America” theme: “There she is, Miss America, there she is, your ideal.” Let’s not dig […]

Liberal media To the editor: Your front page on today August 25, 2005 is a prime example of the liberal media. Cindy Sheehan is disgracing the memory of her brave son and all that have […]

At a community meeting staged by the City’s Planning Department on August 16, planners introduced their second report, “Opportunities and Challenges,” on the revision of the land use and circulation elements in the General Plan. […]

A search and rescue that cost more than 1,000 hours of effort paid off Friday afternoon when a Topanga Canyon record producer was found, naked and delusional, not far from his house. Christian Julian Irwin, […]

(top) 1940s era surfers Dave Heiser, Corny Cole and Arnold Lessin. Cole and Lessin are Samohi alumni and Heiser taught at JAMS for 32 years. (bottom) Samohi alumni surfers from several decades at the Friday […]

The Second Appellate District for the California Court of Appeals issued an opinion last Wednesday, rejecting a 1999 lawsuit filed by the Santa Monica Airport Association (SMAA) against the City of Santa Monica. The 1999 […]

The Mirror spoke with Jay Johnson, the new Chair of the City’s Planning Commission, Monday. Johnson, who describes himself as “semi-retired,” has a broker’s license, manages some apartment buildings and “is involved in real estate […]