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Bill Cosby & Donald Trump: “Waiter, My Check Please!”:

August 1, 2015

August 1, 2015

It happens all the time. You’ve gone out to dinner and enjoyed a nice meal. But in the last few...

Time For Sanity In Sanctuary City Policies:

July 26, 2015

July 26, 2015

There is no need – at least not yet – for total abandonment of the humane aspects of the immigration...

Donald Trump As The New Pete Wilson:

July 25, 2015

July 25, 2015

As Donald Trump, real estate mogul, TV star and Republican presidential candidate, made a whirlwind mid-July trip around the West...

Santa Monica Pier Group Pressure To Perform:

July 19, 2015

July 19, 2015

“What time is it?” In answer to the trademark question posited by funk band The Time’s leader Morris Day, it’s...

Will Prop. 47 Turn Out To Be A Fire Hazard?:

July 19, 2015

July 19, 2015

“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” Robert Burns in his 1785 poem “To a...

‘Robbing The Hood’ Ruling Shows PUC Unchanged By Scandal:

July 18, 2015

July 18, 2015

It’s time once more to roll out the lyrics of The Who’s classic 1971 song “Won’t Get Fooled Again” when...

Vaccination Vacillation Shows Governor Jerry Brown’s Pragmatism:

July 12, 2015

July 12, 2015

“A foolish consistency,” the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once noted, “is the hobgoblin of little minds,” and no one has...

About Time To Meter Ground Water Wells In California:

July 11, 2015

July 11, 2015

Water flows downhill. It’s a basic reality now playing out 500 feet below the surface of California’s farmland everywhere from...

SMCLC Proposes Changes To Inadequate Santa Monica Lobbying Ordinance:

July 11, 2015

July 11, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to Santa Monica City Council regarding the proposed Lobbying Ordinance  set to be...

Public Says It Likes Split Roll, May Get No Vote On It:

July 5, 2015

July 5, 2015

Firm Republican opposition to tinkering of any kind with the 1978 Proposition 13 is one reason voters may get no...