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 […]

“Waterman” was the descriptive name given to the early greats of surfing like Tom Blake and Pete Peterson, Santa Monica’s most famous Watermen, who shaped the culture of Santa Monica and of beach communities around […]

Santa Monica plastic surgeon Janet Salomonson will be in Guatemala this coming summer performing operations to correct the birth anomaly of cleft palate. “We never turn away any child who is healthy enough to go […]