November 9, 2025
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SMa.r.t.-Term Limits: The Heart of Democracy

A Santa Monica City Councilmember and the leader of Santa Monica’s Transparency project are circulating a petition to put the brakes on perennial City Council members. The initiative proposed by Sue Himmelrich and Mary Marlow […]

Congress Must Temper Trump’s California Vendetta

By Tom Elias This has all the symptoms of a classical political vendetta: At every opportunity, President Trump does whatever he thinks might harm California, which does more to resist his agenda than any other […]

SMa.r.t.-ARB (All Ready to Build?)

By Bob Taylor Santa Monica City’s Architectural Review Board (ARB), established in 1974, acts “to preserve existing areas of natural beauty, cultural importance and assure that buildings, structures, signs or other developments are in good […]

GOP Starts to Wise Up; Will Dems Follow?

By Tom Elias California’s top two primary system is living up to its “jungle primary” nickname more than this spring than ever, with dozens of candidates vying in both statewide and district races across the […]

Intimacy: the High of all Highs

By Guy Camilleri The need to connect intimately to another human being is essential to being human. And the use of an authentic expression (body language and words) to define this experience is a fun […]

“Death Wish” A Small Slice of Action

By Whitney Scott Bain If you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the movie. It’s Die Hard 6. Originally, this project was to star Sylvester Stallone, but he dropped out due to creative differences and the […]

SMa.r.t.-Big Versus Small

By Mario Fonda-Bonardi The story of the small taking down the big is an old one we are all familiar with: think David and Goliath. The modern version might by the low-paid, long-hour worker of […]