Like many Santa Monicans I was stunned when I heard about the Macerich Company’s proposal to redevelop Santa Monica Place. Their plan was to roughly triple the building density of the existing mall, adding three […]

When he accepted the Republican nomination for president in 1968, Richard M. Nixon said, “Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth — to see it as it is, and tell it like it […]

Is it possible that we are moving as a nation down the road to faith based regression? Do more and more people believe that science is just one means of comprehending reality and therefore that […]

Here’s what comes from watching too many cop and courtroom shows: You start talking like the detectives. Over morning coffee your beloved cites a news story about a murder, and says she “likes” the husband […]

The “jewels” in The Civic Center Plan To the editor: The Civic Center is the “Jeweled Crown” of our city, we should treat it as such. My support for the Civic Center Specific Plan is […]

The apologists for City Hall policies and programs in general and its misbegot Civic Center Specific Plan, which is a perfect representation of how good intentions go awry, in particular, have been in full flower […]

It’s impossible to know who was using whom in a recent L.A. Times story. Either unnamed City Hall employees were using the Times to simultaneously snipe at City Council member Bobby Shriver and paint themselves […]

Councilman-elect Bill Rosendahl has named two more top aides for his City Hall office. Aaron Gross will be his deputy chief of staff and Norman Kulla will serve as senior counsel. Gross will be responsible […]

Executive Director and co-founder of the West Los Angeles-based New Directions, Inc., Toni Reinis has been named the Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year for 2005 by the Los Angeles area Small Business Association […]