November 7, 2025
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Opinion: Big Utilities Work to Evade Responsibility

    Immediately after firefighters put out the nearly 9,000 separate blazes that scorched more than 1 million acres of California last fall and winter, homeowners began filing lawsuits against the state’s largest electric utilities, […]

Opinion: How Far To Go Until Universal Health Care?

    Nothing frustrated California’s politically dominant liberal Democrats more this year than having to live with the reality that their holy grail of single-payer health care won’t happen here for years to come. This […]

Letter to the edtiro

Letter to the Editor

Constance Farrell can’t be serious when she says “Santa Monica is committed to public safety requirements.” What a joke! The City gave two scooter companies carte blanche to put as many scooters as they want […]

SM.a.r.t. Governance and the Public Trust

    We live in uncertain times – immigrant children are being separated from their parents, minorities are being forced from their homelands and climate change refugees are living in marginal conditions due our government’s […]

Hot Flash: What Heat Does To Your Body

Especially those (that be me) over 50     Is it hot enough for you? It is for me. Too damn hot. And, if you happen to be 50 years old or older, it can […]

Opinion: Unlimited Party Money Laundering

    For most Californians, the year-2000 Proposition 34 was little more than a meaningless formality. But not to politicians or political party officials. The 18-year-old initiative sets inflation-adjusted limits on what individuals and organizations […]

SM.a.r.t: What’s Up?

    Let’s look at the future of our transportation and traffic woes and how they are to be addressed and resolved, especially in our little 8.4-square-mile beach town that the current administration, by continuing […]