February 18, 2026
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Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Jury Still Out On Top Two Producing More Moderates:

Will the instinct for survival trump ideological purity among California politicians? That’s the major question still remaining about the “top two” primary election system adopted by this state’s voters in 2010, which got its first […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Prostitution? Really? In Santa Monica?:

Maybe it’s just me and I need to get out more, but there was something about the news that an international prostitution ring had brothels on Colorado Avenue right here in our blue-sky-kites-flying town that […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Romney All But Throws In California Towel:

The assumption of almost anyone interested in politics has all along been that Republican Mitt Romney stands virtually no chance of carrying California in his bid to unseat President Obama. The candidate himself made that […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Santa Monica Confronts Planet Garbage:

We’ll get to a better definition of “sustainable” in just a moment. For now, imagine that everything you dispose of in just one week has been assembled into a neat pile. That’s solid waste or […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

This Vote Was A California Landmark:

The results are now in, and this week’s primary election appears to have given voters exactly what they wanted: a whole bunch of fall runoff contests that figure to be decided not by extreme partisans […]