It’s just not enough anymore to call the trustees of the California State University system insensitive or tone-deaf. Some of their recent actions indicate they border on the totally insensate. How else to explain the […]

From my pew in the choir loft of the First Congregational Church on Thetford Hill I looked at the comfortable, timeworn church, mismatched chandeliers hanging over the sanctuary, on the pulpit a solitary candlestick holding […]

Dear Editor, According to NMS Properties, the developers of these two properties located at 1447 Lincoln Blvd., and 829 Broadway, “… the projects are specifically aimed toward (providing) low-income units.” Has it occurred to anyone […]

As California begins to see the effects of new political districts and new candidate selection rules at many political levels, the state’s Republican Party has one big pipe dream: Cut down the gigantic majorities every […]

Santa Monica residents who hang on to interesting ‘foodie’ stories will likely remember when a restaurant near our airport was busted for selling whale sushi, with the restaurant closing its doors in March of 2011. […]

Dear editor, Twenty years had passed since Paul Conrad’s “Chain Reaction” public art peace sculpture was constructed in the Santa Monica Civic Center in 1991. Then, last year, someone mentioned to me that it was […]

Will the instinct for survival trump ideological purity among California politicians? That’s the major question still remaining about the “top two” primary election system adopted by this state’s voters in 2010, which got its first […]

Maybe it’s just me and I need to get out more, but there was something about the news that an international prostitution ring had brothels on Colorado Avenue right here in our blue-sky-kites-flying town that […]

If there was one message that went out strongly from the early June votes on local pension changes in San Jose and San Diego, it was this: Private sector workers are tired of seeing six-figure […]