If you’re an average woman, you want two children, according to various surveys. That means you’ll spend about five years of your life trying to become pregnant, being pregnant or recovering from pregnancy, and 30 years trying to avoid it.
STEWART STREET — A crowd of city officials, builders and residents gathered in the Mountain View Mobile Home Park for the unveiling of 11 new manufactured homes that further the evolution of the city-owned park from outdated to cutting edge.
The reforming zealots are at it again! This time their latest cause is infant male circumcision, a procedure that has been practiced in western culture for thousands of years.
DOWNTOWN — Today, Matthew Mezza would have turned 15. The Santa Monica High School freshman, known for his joking nature and quick smile, might have had a birthday party, and celebrated with the many friends that populated his life.
SM PIER — Longtime Santa Monica residents hearken back to the days when their quiet little beach town was just that — a bohemian paradise perched on the doorstep of the Pacific Ocean where locals could ride the waves and revel in the natural beauty that surrounded them.
Last week, I wrote that City Hall was trying to determine a legal way to share revenues with the schools from a half cent increase in the sales and use tax (Measures Y and YY) approved by voters last fall.
WEST L.A. — Today, people across the nation will seek out ways to honor the lives, and deaths, of countless men and women that have given everything for the safety of our country and the preservation of the ideals on which it was founded.
GENERAL COMMENT: In my way of looking at life, there are two kinds of taco joints, authentic and gringo. The best of the authentic ones usually have a regional aspect, and some special feature that draws in the Latino crowd.
CITY HALL — After several hours of public comment, discussion and debate, the City Council voted in a four to three decision Thursday to fund the renovation of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium using approximately $47 million of redevelopment money.
CITY HALL — Over six months after voters approved a half-cent sales tax, City Hall approved a deal with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to split the revenues in exchange for access to high school sports facilities.
Q: Thanks for the gun safety information that was published in last week’s Daily Press. It was very helpful. I’m taking my family camping this holiday weekend and there’s a shooting range at the campsite where we are staying.
This might surprise you, but I was not invited to Oprah Winfrey’s two-day party that celebrated her 25-year-old show ending. I’m sure I would have enjoyed hanging out with people like Aretha Franklin, Tom Cruise, and Michael Jordan.