When the Proposition 19 marijuana legalization initiative qualified for the ballot for the November election, its passage seemed almost a foregone conclusion. Tax the approximately $12 billion pot industry in this state and you could […]

Fable Farm’s community dinners are every Thursday throughout the growing months in Bernard, Vermont. Members of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) get together at the Fable Farm’s gardens. All of Barnard is invited to share an […]

I think our city wins in the not-quite-epic battle for Santa Monica Place. On several key levels, the newly opened remodel of Santa Monica Place is a total success. It certainly feels like the right […]

“Robbing Hoods,” one newspaper editor called the state legislators who voted last year to take $1.7 billion from city redevelopment agencies around the state and apply the funds to education. That editor’s local RDA was […]

One of the first columns I wrote for this newspaper dealt with an encounter I had at the Santa Monica Pier: I was at the Pier, enjoying a typical sunny beach day and the energy […]

Few bills before the state Legislature this summer will draw as firm opposition as one called AB 1998, a partial ban on single-use plastic bags in California which would also include a form of a […]