By Tom Elias Here’s a cold, wet reality: the more water in California’s reservoirs, the less urgency there is to build new ocean-water desalination plants that became a major talking point during the state’s long, […]

By Steve Stajich   Americans aren’t as good with bad memories as they are with the ones that often make us swell with pride. Two of those memories that we tend to keep hidden are […]

By Barbara Bishop   Did you know that there are 141 benefits one can derive from meditation? I won’t list them all, but many apply to me, and will apply to many others. According to […]

At a recent Council meeting (2/28/17) there was a discussion about building the long promised and needed sports field at the corner of Pico and Fourth which is a portion of the Civic Center Specific […]

Since Santa Monica has outgrown its City Hall, its staff are currently scattered across our city. The placement of the New City Services Building (CSB) behind our historic City Hall building will resolve this issue. […]

By Steven Stajich Bending Shakespeare aside, let me see if I qualify as a “foodie.” By definition, a “foodie” is someone with a particular interest in food, a gourmet. Well, don’t we all having a […]

By Tom Elias If there’s one quality shared by several of the leading candidates to succeed Jerry Brown as governor, it’s flamboyance. No one ever accused Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San […]

In 2010, Santa Monica’s Redevelopment Agency purchased multiple parcels of land at 4th and Arizona. The purchases were made to facilitate the goals set out in the City’s Bay- side District Plan – “‘encourage uses […]

By Steven Stajich Mortality: Never just the completion of our temporality, but also everything that can come before. It felt a little bit like a brick had been thrown through a window last week when […]