Once again it’s “Alice in Wonderland” time in Santa Monica as our City Council has passed an ordinance holding homeowners co-responsible when their hired gardeners illegally use leaf blowers. Is there another city in America […]

Just in case anyone needs new evidence that California politicians worry far more about their own survival than that of the people they allegedly serve, check out the contributions for September to the Yes on […]

Whether the human mind tends to edit out all the dark bad parts or not, there does seem to be tendency for our memory mechanisms to erase the gray and uninteresting passages. Hours spent standing […]

There were tough times last week for non-polluting self-propelled travelers in our town. Santa Monica has honorably made significant efforts to make our streets bicycle-friendly. In the past, these efforts may have had as much […]

Trillions of dollars spent. The announced goals: Military victories, winning hearts and minds of foreign peoples, spreading “American democracy.” The results from 1960 through 2010 are one qualified win and three losses – each of […]

This column is an invitation to a Santa Monica City Council candidate forum. It’s also a recognition that this city is “on the map.” It partially told through an anecdote about the saga of a […]

Carly Fiorina doesn’t like the sound of the term “career politician.” And I think she suspects that you don’t like the sound of it either. Go to one of her appearances and she’ll tell you […]

On the surface, this fall’s campaign for governor seemed to begin in earnest almost exactly one year ago, when Republican Meg Whitman opened the radio ad campaign that turned into a key part of her […]