Let’s not jump into any wrong-headed promotional campaigns just yet. Even though “Santa Monica: We’ll Leave You Alone” is a bumper sticker that might appeal to lots of people looking to get away from it […]

Charlotte Biren and Jenna Perelman have been thinking about the natural environment and preparing to be environmental stewards since their elementary school days. They shine with confidence in their understanding of what needs to be […]

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. […]