Category: Opinion

By Tom Elias Time and again, President Trump threatens to withhold federal grants from California cities, universities and the state...

By Steven Stajich As this column wrote in late November, the City of Santa Monica is now pursuing earthquake retrofitting...

One of the fatal flaws of the currently evolving Downtown Community Plan is that there are no provisions for an...

By Tom Elias For decades, a struggle has raged across America to protect young people from the negative aspects of...

Architecture should grow out of its environment, not dominate it.  Paraphrasing our City Manager, “Every city has its own character...