I rang in 2005 with two big events on my mind. Yes, this would be the year I turned 18, graduated from high school, and began college, but more importantly, it would be the year […]

Just when many adults deemed the next generation largely illiterate due to struggling public schools, video games, Jerry Springer and ten-second attention spans, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter re-established reading as an ‘in’ sport for millions […]

These publications depend on lots of ads For diet supplements and energy juice Schwarzenegger has already vetoed A bill that would’ve regulated their use. Arnold now has so many big problems But it seems this […]

Governor Schwarzenegger’s special election in November includes a measure that many parents are calling “The Destruction of the Public Schools Act,” since it essentially eviscerates constitutionally protected Proposition 98 school funding guarantees. With his broken […]

John Gibson of Fox News says that Karl Rove should be given a medal. I agree: Rove should receive a medal from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering discoveries about modern American politics. […]

The cliché is that all human beings belong to one family – humankind. The reality is also that all human beings belong to one family – humankind. All of us – all races, nations, ethnic […]

It was duly and widely noted that residents of London returned to their normal living patterns just days after the bombings there on July 7th. More than just “stiff upper lip, and all that,” citizens […]

Correcting the record To the editor of the Ocean Park Gazette: 1. I would like to comment on a statement by SMC’s Don Girard in your July 7 article entitled “Neighbors Still Bristling about Bundy […]

There are 152 words in Tom Fitch’s paean, 271 words in the Gettysburg Address, and about 1300 words in the Declaration of Independence. The staff report discussed in the previous editorial spent 7,629 words recommending […]

There are a few clinkers in the crowd, but, by and large, the people who serve on the Santa Monica boards and commissions are bright, dedicated, knowledgeable people who play a crucial role in the […]