The Best Of 2011: Steve Stajich:
I’m not sure what Top 10 and “Best of” lists accomplish, exactly. They are fun for writers to put together, but would you really change your opinion of a stinker movie because it started showing […]
New SMO Voluntary Night Flying Restrictions An Insult To Airport’s Neighbors: Letter To The Editor:
Dear Editor, Although marketed as some sort of holiday gift to the communities from the six flight schools at SMO, this is a major insult to the airport’s neighbors. It amounts to a gift wrapped […]
Will 2012 Be The Year To Restore Prop. 13’s Original Intent?:
Jon Coupal likes to say his hard-fighting organization, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, exists to beat back constant attacks on Proposition 13, the landmark 1978 initiative that limits property taxes in California. But in reality, […]
Things We Don’t Want For Christmas In Santa Monica:
At this holiday season, we should observe that Santa Monica is a city blessed with gifts. A stable tax base maintains a high standard of city services. In a time of hardship everywhere, Santa Monica […]
Biggest Tax Hike Obstacle: Resentment Of Public Employees:
The many negative stories represent aberrations, revealing nothing at all typical about public employees in California. Yet, they have turned public opinion against civil servants so severely that it will be difficult to pass any […]
Religion And Commerce: No Sale?:
It seems that last weekend I found myself involved in something like a play or perhaps more accurately a pageant. It appeared to present itself in three acts. Act one: While watching a football game […]
What Say You: Ocean Park Green Street Celebration:
This past wonderfully rainy Monday, about 50 people from the Ocean Park community and City of Santa Monica came together at the Ocean Park Library to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Ocean Park Boulevard Green […]
It’s Time To Take Much More Action On Racism In Schools: Letter To The Editor:
Dear Editor, It’s been seven months since the wrestling racial incident. Tim Cuneo has left the superintendent position of SMMUSD and Dr. Pedroza has long since left the Santa Monica High School campus. What they […]
Fall Votes The Spur For Sudden Spate Of Tax Hike Pushes: Elias:
One startling statistic from last fall’s municipal elections around California has not been lost on the state’s policymakers and would-be reformers: Fully 40 out of the 53 local tax or bond measures up for a […]
The Parameters Of No Parameters: Stajich:
Your exploitation may not be my exploitation. I’ve written in this column about the action on the AMC TV series “The Walking Dead”, an often gruesome and arguably repulsive series that often centers on the […]
Horvath Terminates Controversial Ocean Avenue Housing Projects, Orders Search for Alternative Sites
The decision follows weeks of criticism from residents and city leaders, including Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete, who voiced concerns...
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Two Arrested, $50K in Stolen Copper Wire Recovered After Mission Hills Theft
Detectives are continuing to search for two remaining suspects with additional arrests expected Two men were arrested and $50,000 worth...
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