It’s a question commonly asked by schoolchildren: What is the President’s most important job? The answer plainly is not being commander-in-chief of the military or appointing a cabinet or negotiating a budget. Rather, the answer […]

Holiday season, thou shalt have your pound of fruitcake. That’s from Shakespeare’s lesser known “Merchant of Christmas Gifts.” If you have already been out and about Christmas shopping, then right about now you’ve likely invented […]

“I always think of Santa Monica as a livable and sustainable community with a slow and thoughtful approach to growth, maintaining its small scale, minimizing auto traffic, and supporting biking and walking,” said Paul Rosenstein, […]

Imagine the public outcry if a legislative committee suddenly raised future taxes on almost every Californian and then said no one would know the amount until the tax bill arrived. Fury would be a mild […]

Any bike-riding enthusiast will likely tell you that when it comes to navigating a bicycle through city streets, the odds are stacked against you. To begin with, there’s not much of a contest between you […]

“In California, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” Often attributed to Mark Twain, circa 1870. Regardless of whether America’s greatest author and wit of the 19th Century actually made that pithy comment, […]

Last Sunday the venerable CBS News magazine “60 Minutes” did an informative report on a piece of hardware that, hopefully, most of us are only vaguely familiar with: The electric stun gun device known by […]

Qualified applicants need not apply is the take home message for many Santa Monicans who follow City Hall actions. In the past few months, the City has lost Hank Koening and Gwynne Pugh, two Santa […]

It’s easy to dismiss the “Occupy” movement that quickly spread from Wall Street in New York to California points like Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, and San Francisco as mainly an activity for the homeless and […]