Since Santa Monica has outgrown its City Hall, its staff are currently scattered across our city. The placement of the New City Services Building (CSB) behind our historic City Hall building will resolve this issue. […]

By Steven Stajich Bending Shakespeare aside, let me see if I qualify as a “foodie.” By definition, a “foodie” is someone with a particular interest in food, a gourmet. Well, don’t we all having a […]

By Tom Elias If there’s one quality shared by several of the leading candidates to succeed Jerry Brown as governor, it’s flamboyance. No one ever accused Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San […]

In 2010, Santa Monica’s Redevelopment Agency purchased multiple parcels of land at 4th and Arizona. The purchases were made to facilitate the goals set out in the City’s Bay- side District Plan – “‘encourage uses […]

By Steven Stajich Mortality: Never just the completion of our temporality, but also everything that can come before. It felt a little bit like a brick had been thrown through a window last week when […]

By Sam Skopp Samuel B. Moses CPA has been a Santa Mon- ica-based accountant for the past 25 years, han- dling taxes and accounting for a customer base as diverse as the wide variety of […]

Dear Editor, March 1st marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period preceding Easter, when many Christians abstain from animal foods in remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the wilderness before launching his […]

By Thomas D. Elias   As recently as last July, just 22 percent of Californians favored the idea of California risking a new civil war by declaring its independence from the rest of America. But […]