“Back to School.” As summer draws to a close and the new school year approaches, Santa Monica Malibu families can expect a school year full of high quality teaching and continued strong community support for […]

The first few moments are pure magic. From across the room you spy her – her intoxicating scent beckons, gently rousting you from your early morning commuter coma. She’s journeyed halfway across the world to […]

Republican Senator Rick Santorum, representing his party, himself and his state of Pennsylvania, has been out the last few weeks promoting his book It Takes a Family. Santorum is the father of six children, and […]

Rosendahl To Coastal Commission California Coastal Commission Re: Appeal No. A-5-03-465 YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles 15601 Sunset Boulevard, Pacific Palisades Dear Commissioners: On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, you will consider the application of the […]

Not only are the top two slots in City Hall empty, and the biggest project on hold, but we are now engaged in revising the land use and circulation elements in the General Plan, which […]

Several months ago, Suzanne Frick, Director of the City’s Planning and Community Development Department, and one of the two most powerful people in City Hall, decamped for Long Beach. Two weeks ago, McCarthy, the other […]

In recent weeks, the City’s Planning Staff has twice supported appeals of Landmarks Commission designations of landmarks to the City Council, and, in both instances, suggested that the Commissioners had overstepped their authority and engaged […]

Beachfront Malibu homeowners took a promised second blow when the California Coastal Commission Friday issued a permanent “cease and desist” order preventing the owners of the 108 houses on Broad Beach from harassing beachgoers with […]

Last week, the Landmarks Commission designated the office building at 710 Wilshire Boulevard a City landmark, but it won’t remain an office building for long. Originally known as the Santa Monica Professional Building, the unusually […]

In commemoration of Bill of Rights Day, on December 15, 2004, UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA) urged Californians to adopt a Students’ Bill of Rights for all students attending California’s public schools. […]