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Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown: FAA Delays On SMO Again:

October 17, 2015

October 17, 2015

Dear Editor, The FAA on Friday sent the City of Santa Monica the (above) attached notice. They are again postponing...

It’s Official: Solar Thermal Causes Energy Poverty:

October 10, 2015

October 10, 2015

When ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made their way onto a hot, dry alkali flat just...

Recycling & Guns: A Possible Similarity:

October 9, 2015

October 9, 2015

In the New York Times Sunday Review section of Oct. 4, John Tierney, writer of the Findings column for the...

Latino Education Gap, Dropout Rates A Big Problem:

October 2, 2015

October 2, 2015

List California’s biggest problems and water immediately comes up, followed by public employee pension obligations, voter distrust for government and...

Manson Follower Again Tests Brown On Parole:

September 27, 2015

September 27, 2015

If this seems like deja vu, that’s because it is. For the twenty-ninth time since he was convicted in two...

Anti-Vaxxers Threaten Freedoms Of Others:

September 19, 2015

September 19, 2015

Imagine a California where polio becomes a threat to children’s health as it was before the 1950s, when first the...

Union Dues Foes May Still Win, Despite Three Ballot Losses:

September 14, 2015

September 14, 2015

The common assumption in California politics is that labor unions will always be a major force because they have been...

Big Picture Thinking With Our New Friend, Climate Change:

September 14, 2015

September 14, 2015

In my unproduced screenplay, “Jeepers, It’s Hot!”, an everyman played by George Clooney turns on his TV set to see...

Tony Gleaton: Artist, American Patriot, Beloved Friend:

September 4, 2015

September 4, 2015

A brilliant thinker, Tony Gleaton created a singular life pursuing the visual expression of what it means to be human....

Prop. 47 Looking Like A Well-Intentioned Blunder:

August 30, 2015

August 30, 2015

The more time goes by since last fall’s passage of the high-minded Proposition 47, the more it begins to look...