At the May 15th SMMUSD school board meeting, a stream of parents, scientists, community members and even some kindergarteners spoke out against the Boards’ plans to swap Franklin’s grass
On Wednesday evening our newly elected youthful city council passed a resolution to turn the promenade into an “entertainment zone.” What you ask is an Entertainment Zone? As far as
Santa Monica may be the most comfortable place to live in the entire world. We have excellent year around weather, access to world class amenities and enough affluence as a
I don’t know about you, but I am feeling unmoored. After the wildfires and subsequent evacuations, then the disturbing new Federal administration’s actions, which are clearly meant to
In the precipice of Trump taking over our federal government everything is burning. After years of scientists telling us this would happen, it has. Much of the Palisades is gone.
This week we found out officially, what many of us already know experientially, that Santa Monica is the most expensive city to conduct business in. Our academic neighbors to the
We in Santa Monica, have been governing by ideology for many years. We measure our policies and their effects by vague standards of moral righteousness, not by quantitative results—not
In Tuesday evening's meeting, City Council voted to extend the local emergency on Homelessness through May of 2025, signaling to the state that we are in fact, still
There is a scene in the 1986 film Pretty In Pink where Ducky, (Jon Cryer) professes his love for Andie (Molly Ringwald), by lip syncing Otis Redding. It’s a
I had this politics professor who used to say that all great American literature is at heart about reverence for the past and contempt for the present — that things were
We all love those movies where a special teacher or coach enters kids’ lives and profoundly helps them. They are universal and heartwarming stories, because we were all kids once
