Citing the need to repair leaky roofs, improve computer technology and replace deteriorating, 30-year-old school restrooms, the school board on Aug. 3 voted to place a $268 million
By LAUGHING MATTERS BY JACK NEWORTH
As I write this column each week, I often wonder is this worthy of a column, or just a random idea I’ve managed
By MODERN TIMES BY LLOYD GARVER
For many of us, every four years we go through an arduous selection process. We agonize over our choice, and after we’ve made
✆ Unless City Hall has a better solution, the doggie houses should not only stay, but be lit up at night. An award should be given to their sponsor. It’s
✆ I do not agree with the city’s stance on this issue. Perhaps they should extend the ordinance of placing objects on trees to include banning spraying urine on the
✆ I don’t know who said, “No good deed goes unpunished,” but that seems to be the official Santa Monica way of running things. People who make a contribution to
✆ Valerie Hiss has provided a valuable service to the community, one which the city should have provided long ago. The law against placing objects on trees has not been enforced,
✆ I am for little plastic bags being left around. By experience, everybody’s little dog pooped on my front lawn and on the strip of lawn outside my house because
✆ Well, since the bums probably make more mess in this town than any dogs, they ought to be more concerned about that. What they should do is go after everybody
✆ Somebody comes up with a good idea and she spends $5,000 of her own money to put the doggie pooper-scooper things on the trees, and now it’s
✆ Valerie Hiss deserves applause for her efforts in keeping our city lawns free from dog poop. Unfortunately, one item hanging from a tree leads to other items hanging from trees.
✆ I do think the bird houses should be removed from the trees, because they can cause damage to the trees. But, I think citizens of the community such as Valerie’
