Go online today and buy a book or DVD from an independent California-based seller on Barnesandnoble.com and you will pay a bit of sales tax. Buy the same book from Amazon.com and you won’t. Similarly, […]

There’s a tsunami of speech rolling over the planet, and yet it comes at a time when many Americans are wondering if we’ve all gone “free expression” crazy. Yes, let’s all be free… to type […]

Editor’s Note: This column is the first of a series,written by Santa Monica Spoke, a bicycle advocacy group in Santa Monica, as well as other cycling advocates. This group plans to contribute occasional columns to […]

Ask the governor of Wisconsin (tell him you’re one of the Koch brothers), he’ll tell you the money has to come from somewhere. So it’s not surprising that searches for sources of additional revenue by […]

Whether or not he manages to eliminate all of the more than 400 city redevelopment agencies that have thrived around California for six decades, it now appears Gov. Jerry Brown will at the very least […]

Two students walked into music class at St. Anne School in Santa Monica. “They were bickering and calling each other names,” said Mayumi Kanagawa, a Crossroads student who is volunteering at St. Anne School. “I […]

As a lifelong resident of Santa Monica I love this city and I am proud of our City Council’s action this Tuesday night (Feb. 22). I thank City Manager Rod Gould for his courage and […]

There are certainly worse things in the world than the hubris of professional sports figures and the men who control them, but sometimes it feels as though that arrogance is just knocking the wind right […]

“An unprecedented amount of excitement” was City Council member Kevin McKeown’s wry characterization of the number of development projects planned for construction during the next five to 10 years in Santa Monica.  His comment was […]

As much as we might suspect the presence of magic or even some sort of curse, the workings of your automobile engine and the performance of your car are related to mechanical explanations. Compression, leaky […]