Will Rogers once said that whenever he feared he was running out of comic material, he just looked at what Congress did the day before.  Well, the same applies to me when I am seeking […]

I’m reaching into dust-covered files when I pull out the RCA dog. The Radio Corporation of America—which it really was at one time, with parts and labor from America—had a corporate logo, a mascot really, […]

When an institution reaches a certain size and speed, it inevitably begins to elevate its own interests and welfare over the interests and welfare of the people it was created to serve. City Hall was […]

Students often jog to classes, but Thursday they’ll be jogging for cash. The first annual John Muir Jog-a-Thon will take place on the Muir/SMASH playing field on Thursday, March 17, at 9 a.m. Students will […]

In the wake of the devastating tsunami in South Asia, the 800 students at Franklin Elementary School held a read-a-thon to benefit School in a Box, UNICEF’s Tsunami Relief Fund. The read-a-thon ran from January […]

Santa Monica City Council will hear an appeal of a February 2004 Planning Board decision to allow AT&T [now Cingular Wireless] to build a cell phone tower on the roof of a Public Storage building […]

Mazatlán is a coastal city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, less than 15 miles south of the Tropic of Cancer. Like Ville-d’Avray in France (Mirror Feb. 16-22, 2005), Hamm in Germany (Mirror Feb. 23-March […]

For the second straight year, Santa Monica High School has won the LA/Orange Counties competition in the regional Ocean Sciences Bowl, which is held annually at USC, and is sponsored by the USC  Wrigley Institute […]

The City of Santa Monica has created two websites on which residents can comment on the revisions of the General Plan’s land use and circulation elements. The land use element delineates the distribution of different […]

Among the women honored at the California Legislative Women’s Caucus annual celebration Monday in Sacramento was Suzanne Verge of Santa Monica. Assembly member Fran Pavley said, “I was delighted to name Santa Monica resident Suzanne […]