Never mind those spinning lawn mower balls in the “Battleship” movie, although I don’t need to tell you to avoid “Battleship” since most of America is already doing so. Anyhow, don’t worry about aliens in […]

Education, environmental sustainability, development and traffic, and social justice are main concerns of Santa Monicans. The person we elect to be our Assembly Member can help or hurt us as we try to tackle these […]

As Memorial Day approaches I am reminded of a letter dated October 7, 1918 my father, Effingham Buckley Morris Jr. , U.S. Army major, wrote to his wife and family members from the trenches of […]

Millions of dollars in “hydrogen highway” grants by a state commission are drawing cries of favoritism and collusion as they seem to guarantee that most refueling stations for the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles due to […]

Regarding just about any sort of societal unpleasantness, you can often say aloud “Well, that’s just wrong” and you’d be correct. But saying that in 1962 about denying civil rights would only buy you a […]

The many thousands who regularly use the state’s large and varied park system were among the most distraught of Californians when legislators and Gov. Jerry Brown last year imposed cuts and closures on the system, […]