There isn’t a woman alive who was ever raped while either intoxicated or unconscious who doesn’t consider the entire experience violent. But that’s not how these crimes are defined legally in California. The same for […]

      Only occasionally does a proposed California law approach the status of being an absolute no-brainer.           There’s just one such measure before the Legislature right now, a bill that could possibly restore a […]

    Petition carriers – mostly volunteers – have been on the streets and in the parking lots of California for a few weeks now, eager to qualify an initiative for the next available ballot […]

    I am tired of spending thousands of dollars a year looking “younger than 50.” Over the past year, I purchased four different eye creams (one was $400) and they all have worked really […]

Gov. Jerry Brown has made this year something like a farewell tour, traveling the world as the de facto leader of American environmentalism and basking in compliments from major state and national media over his […]

Eight big challenges the City must address right now. The City must get ready to deal with the rise in sea levels. In Southern California we are likely to see a huge erosion of the […]

  When all the votes have finally been counted, the total tally for the two major Republican candidates in this week’s California primary election run for governor likely will come to just over 35 percent […]

  It’s summer. Bathing suit weather. I’m all set to get my safely conservative, bikini line wax. I went to a new place in Santa Monica, on 2nd Street, that uses a honey-based wax. It’s […]

The members of the SM.a.r.t. group are deeply concerned about the City of Santa Monica’s long-term financial health. This guest column is by members of the now-disbanded Compensation Advisory Committee. Santa Monica faces an unfunded […]

No law is more important to lifestyles in California than Proposition 13, the landmark 1978 law that limits property taxes to 1 percent of their 1975 values or 1 percent of their latest sale prices, […]