[Editor’s Note: In the last week, the Santa Monica Mirror editor has gotten a couple dozen letters regarding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed cut to California’s In-Home Care program (IHSS). Although many of these letters appear […]
You have finished college and received the long-awaited diploma. After going on interviews and sending out your resume, you landed a job. Congrats, college graduate. You are about to enter a whole new world. This […]
Near the holiday weekend one of our cable channels offered-up a kind of festival of “Teens-out-of-control!” movies from the 50s and 60s. “Rebel Without a Cause” and “The Blackboard Jungle” made the list of course, […]
Ho-hum. Another summer, and on other state budget deficit, another impasse in the Legislature, and once again a major part of the solution stares lawmakers in the face and they do nothing about it. Oops. […]
Class stratification doesn’t have to be part of the dialogue about every single thing in America. Or does it? You can certainly point to a lot of on-going problems and argue that because those who […]
When finances turn questionable for a big business, there are layoffs. From General Motors to General Electric and even the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Chronicle, that’s how it’s done. It doesn’t always work: […]
Let’s start with the water bottle. Because that’s just such a strange modern mentality to begin with… the notion that something is safer or more pure because it’s in a sealed plastic bottle. But okay, […]
2010 will be the first time Ted, his wife, the designer Beck Taylor, their children, Eleanor and Steele, and their dogs will join the marchers. For the previous three years Ted was a parade producer […]
Here’s a question for the California High Speed Rail authority: How about cutting out the most expensive parts of your current plan – which also happen to be the most controversial – while leaving its […]
Let’s begin with a worst-case scenario, then zoom forward: A woman finally divorces her husband after struggling for years to keep the family together through hard financial turns and her husband’s escalating instability. One afternoon, […]
Free ceremony with Chinook flyover, awards set for Nov. 11 The Pacific Park Ferris wheel will light up Tuesday night...
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Texas-style breakfast taco chain to open ninth spot in Santa Monica; first 50 guests get free tacos for a week...
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