It’s that time of year when we tend to reflect on the past and make plans for the future. If we aren’t doing this, we probably should be. It is a good idea to take stock of our lives and decide what we are missing, what we need to let go of, and then think about our goals for the coming year.
As our planet completes another trip around the sun, we at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association join in the tradition of taking stock of what has been accomplished during the year just ending and assess what challenges we face in the coming year.
A wise person once said that when the price of renting vs. owning your own home was equal, prices were at their comfortable median. Lately, I have been saying that when it is less expensive to own vs.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Crime in Santa Monica and across the nation dropped in the first six months of 2011, according to statistics recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
SMO — Flight school owners voluntarily agreed to restrict the hours their planes spend flying over Santa Monica in an attempt to “be a better neighbor” to residents that live near the airport, city officials announced Thursday.
It’s time for the Sammies — my annual awards for the good, bad and ugly in Santa Monica. The 2011 Sammy for “Architectural Thuggery” goes to Texas developer Hines, whose original development proposal for the former Paper Mate property on Olympic Boulevard was best described as “packing boxes the Wat
Holiday crunch time on the Third Street Promenade certainly brings elevated levels of shopping mayhem. All of the congestion, large crowds and seasonal cheesiness does indeed bring out the Grinch in me.
Many a Sunday morning we enjoyed a dim sum brunch at the old VIP Seafood Restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard and Barrington Avenue. One nice feature was that we got dim sum right away from the rolling carts while we waited for a few special dishes.
SM BAY — A new fundraising effort by Heal the Bay is aimed at providing money for marine biology education, which may fall victim to the budgetary ax at Los Angeles schools, organizers of the effort said Thursday.
CITY HALL — While the war over space for nativity scenes in Palisades Park rages on, Santa Monica’s Jewish community is having no problem finding spots to put up its menorahs.
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was the Lady Gaga of Nigeria in the 1970s. The creator of Afrobeat, a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock and traditional West African chants and rhythms, Fela became an international phenomenon and then went on to become a notorious political activist, the scourge of the Nige
MID CITY — The founder of a local nonprofit is taking a new approach to an old problem — alleviating the over-crowding of municipal animal shelters through compassion and education.
