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Do Residents Or Developers Own Santa Monica: Letter To The Editor:

October 17, 2012

October 17, 2012

Dear Editor: Three major developers are spending more than $100,000 to re-elect Terry O’Day and Gleam Davis to the City...

Demo Hopes For Congress Run Through California:

October 13, 2012

October 13, 2012

Democrats have dreamed all Fall of making a huge congressional comeback and reinstalling San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi as speaker of...

Latinos Still A National Sleeping Giant:

October 13, 2012

October 13, 2012

Before the 1994 Proposition 187 galvanized them into a powerful voting bloc, it was common to refer to California Latinos...

Santa Monica Fire Department Honors Its Community Heroes:

October 13, 2012

October 13, 2012

Several months ago, a relatively modest looking package arrived at the front desk of the Fire Department’s administrative office. As...

“Polls Biased? Gripers Usually Wrong”:

October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012

Every election year at this time, radio and television airwaves, newspaper columns and political websites are suffused with poll results....

Hometown Heroes: The Santa Monica City Council Candidates, Part 2:

October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012

Imagine you are elected to the City Council and it is four years from now. How will you be remembered?...

Prop. 31 – Strange Target For Anger On That Ultra-Right:

October 6, 2012

October 6, 2012

The strangest of all this fall’s intense initiative battles may be the small-money one being waged over Proposition 31, whose...

New Hydrogen Fuel Plan Still Tilts Toward Huge Corporations:

September 29, 2012

September 29, 2012

Just a few months after pulling back about $12 million in grants to help build fueling stations for the new...

Hometown Heroes: The Santa Monica City Council Candidates, Part 1:

September 29, 2012

September 29, 2012

Imagine you are elected to the City Council and it is four years from now. How will you be remembered?...

Do-Gooder Billionaire May Cause Real Harm This Time:

September 29, 2012

September 29, 2012

Businesses are shying away from backing Proposition 32, the latest Republican revival of the so-called “paycheck protection” plan for emasculating...