Pacifica Christian’s Austin Cortina fields a ground ball against Animo Leadership on Saturday at UC Riverside. Pacifica Christian lost, 6-4, to Animo in the final of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 7 playoffs.
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that only a handful of outdated coal-burning power plants generate a sizable amount of the mercury pollution generated in the United States? If so, is anything being done to clean these sites up or shut them down? — Frank Pearson, Wichita, Kan.
While we find no fault with the City Council’s decision roughly four months ago to not challenge a federal court’s ruling barring City Hall from enforcing a ban on C and D jets at Santa Monica Airport, the Daily Press is miffed that we had to find out about the decision this week from residents and
The effort by a San Diego-based organization to ban circumcision in Santa Monica on boys under the age of 18 has generated plenty of letters to the Daily Press over the last week, with people passionately expressing their support and opposition to the proposed ballot initiative, which will need a li
Dear Mayor Bloom, City Council members and City Manager Rod Gould, We are writing to you with our views concerning a new planning director. This position is of critical importance to our city.
Dear EarthTalk: Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it purport to do and has it been signed into law? — Megan Wilson, Austin, Texas The Safe Cosmetics Act was introduced in the U.
The owners of the Yahoo! Center are asking the City Council to allow them to continue leasing more than 1,000 parking spaces to people like Saint John’s Health Center and local car dealers, something they have been doing illegally under the terms of their development agreement for at least a decade.
The Public Technology Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have recently recognized City Hall as a leader in the application of Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Grand marshals for the fifth annual Fourth of July parade on Main Street will be Santa Monica’s lifeguards, led by Capt. Angus Alexander, a 31-year veteran who oversees operations at the Central Section Lifeguard Headquarters, located just south of the Santa Monica Pier.
Santa Monica police officers, fire fighters and kids with the Police Activities League will be at Muscle Beach this afternoon, May 26, to honor former SMPD Officer and Marine Rick Crocker with a CrossFit “hero workout.
Dear EarthTalk How are wild dolphins faring on the high seas? Recent reports of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico may well be due to last year’s BP oil spill, but I imagine there are many threats to dolphins from pollution, human overfishing and other causes.
City officials working to house Santa Monica’s homeless are contemplating leaving the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s continuum of care over disputes about funding and housing vouchers.
