At 9:30 a.m. on Election Day, the library at Will Rogers Learning Community opened as a polling place for the fifth graders’ “mock election” for President of the United States. Students filed into the library […]

The gardener sprays down the windows on a beautiful September afternoon at the Venice home of Victoria Duffy Hopper. This late in the year the sun is at its zenith in the sky – a […]

Longtime L.A. Westsider and now Denver resident Jude DeLorca filed the following dispatch from the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening, August 26. Santa Monica’s Wendy Wanderman and Venice’s Victoria Duffy Hopper are among the delegates […]

The political season is taking shape, and a gaggle of Santa Monica contestants are poised for battle as the lines have now been drawn. The November Santa Monica ballot has been finalized in races for […]

On March 7, Treesavers attorney Tom Nitti obtained a new court order that would delay destruction and removal of any of the ficus trees on 2nd and 4th Streets. The order, issued by the Court […]

The October 26 scheduled hearing on the fate of the ficus trees at 2nd and 4th Streets was taken off calendar on October 24, due to the pending process of obtaining landmark designation for the […]

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With the clock ticking as the three-week restraining order against removal of the downtown area ficus trees approaches its deadline, Santa Monica’s Treesavers redoubled their efforts to build support for saving the trees. On Saturday, […]

Another measure of protection for the threatened trees on 2nd and 4th Streets was added with the official “filing” of applications for City landmark designation on Tuesday, October 16. The municipal code prohibits “any alteration…removal, […]

Editor-at-Large To paraphrase the great Bard, “This is the question: Is it better to have a poor production of Shakespeare than to never have had one at all?” After sitting through the opening night of […]