By Barbara Bishop   Does Santa Monica really need another Italian restaurant? If it serves its house specialty, the Bolognese, I bellow a resounding “yes!” I’m talking about something with good taste. How can something […]

By Steve Stajich   First, let me acknowledge that there are always hesitations before deciding to write, once again, about guns in America. Not just for me and the space I am gratefully granted here […]

Does our City have a vision for its future? Do the current policies of our City Council, as Mr. Cole suggests, “creatively shape the tides of history” for our small beach town. Is it true […]

By Steve Stajich   One of the many affectations of the 60’s television series “Batman,” and there were many, was the tendency for Robin the Boy Wonder (actor Burt Ward) to exclaim something with the […]

By Tom Elias   Words matter, we often hear in these days of a President notorious for loose verbiage. They also matter in the California Penal Code, where the label “violent” is not applied to […]

By Steve Stajich   A few notes about our experience of life becoming more dependent on video imagery before we go in on police body cameras: It wasn’t all that long ago that something occurred […]

By Tom Elias Just in case anyone wonders what the real issue was in the very close race between Eric Bauman and Kimberly Ellis over who would become the next chairperson of the California Democratic […]

By Tom Elias   The well-documented “fix-is-in” proceedings which forced consumers to pay more than 70 percent of the cost of shutting down the San Onofre Nuclear Power Station were one form of corruption in […]