Have you looked at the ingredients on your cereal box lately? Today’s supermarkets are often stocked with packaged foods plagued with nasty additives, used to increase flavor and maintain freshness – they may add to […]

Officials of various departments, agencies, and businesses in Santa Monica are asked every year: Why doesn’t Santa Monica have fireworks on the Fourth of July? More specifically, why isn’t there something on the Santa Monica […]

Maybe we should blame our computers. Since we all have these devices now, we have come to take a certain level of perfection for granted, even when our own input into the machine has been […]

Budget deficits have threatened California’s state parks – among the finest places with which nature has gifted this state – for several years, with annual threats to cut their operating budgets or even close them […]

That dirt pile – the one on Santa Monica Boulevard in front of St. Johns Hospital got closer to disappearing this week as both the city council and the planning commission considered amendments to the […]

Local governments already have a lot of taxing authority. They can levy sales taxes, parcel taxes, utility taxes, create assessment districts and charge business license fees, among others. There are also, of course, property taxes. […]

Ernest Marquez, the historian of the Marquez family, was born in 1924 at Mary Martin Hospital in Santa Monica. He grew up in the family home in Santa Monica Canyon on land that was part […]

There’s a difference between just being contentious and having an argument. True, we’ve lost a lot of ground with the concept of arguments thanks to such things as talk radio, 24-hour “news” channels, and TV […]

Critics have called the springtime Jerry Brown road show – mostly staged in schools in Republican legislative districts and interrupted briefly when he needed a small growth removed from his nose – little more than […]