One of the most important decisions our City Council will make this year could be approval of our new Downtown Community Plan (DCP). What is the DCP? It is the master plan that will define […]

By Jerry Rubin and Marissa Rubin Paul Conrad’s 26-foot tall nuclear mushroom cloud peace sculpture ‘Chain Reaction’, which has now been fully refurbished, is still  standing in the Santa Monica Civic Center, where it has been […]

By Kathryn Boole   “Where there’s a need, there’s a Lion!” Lions Clubs International is the largest service club organization in the world. With 1.4 million members in 210 countries and geographic areas, Lions are […]

By Tom Elias   Single-payer health insurance that would cover every Californian has stalled, at least for now. Because Democratic Speaker Anthony Rendon shelved state Assembly consideration of the Senate-passed insurance outline at least until […]

Why I never/seldom go downtown and never really want to go there.   What is downtown for me, a resident of Ocean Park? The Apple store. Maybe. What else is there? Barnes & Noble is […]

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 […]