As California’s smog-fighting Air Resources Board (ARB) gets set to impose America’s first cap-and-trade rules for fighting the greenhouse gases most scientists believe are helping cause global warming and climate change, it is also considering […]

What is a New Year’s resolution, exactly? It appears to be a promise to yourself that you might share with friends or loved ones, and except for the fact that a new year feels like […]

At least once a year all “content creators” are vulnerable to standing on what has become the chronic Achilles Heel of the TV news channels: Creating content out of old news and our witty opinions. […]

“All I’ve ever wanted to do is dance,” said Cristyne Lawson, the recently retired Dean of the Dance Department at CalArts and a person who has danced with every icon of the American modern dance […]

Council member Bob Holbrook’s excruciatingly narrow victory over challenger Ted Winterer in the Nov. 2 Santa Monica City Council election has produced some surprising and though-provoking fallout within the ranks of Santa Monicans for Renters’ […]

Full disclosure: I was raised Methodist and I believe that our household never neglected the true spirit and meaning of this season of celebration. With that established, I’m concerned that 2010 was a year in […]

It’s easy enough to say the mess that is this state’s budget has little impact on ordinary Californians other than furloughed state employees or many of the elderly and infirm who have lost government-paid in-home […]