CITY HALL — By one measure, last Tuesday’s City Council meeting — the first to be conducted under a recently adopted set of procedural rules aimed at moving meetings along at a brisker pace — was a remarkable success.
If you support keeping marijuana illegal you are supporting terrorism. In 1919, the United States Constitution was amended to outlaw alcohol. The unintended consequence was the rise to power of organized crime.
Proposition 25 is the latest weapon against Proposition 13, but backers don’t want voters to know it. Statewide polls taken in recent years consistently show Proposition 13 to be as popular as it was 32 years ago when it passed with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
SAMOHI — With Ocean League play underway, the Vikings’ girls’ volleyball team hopes to improve on the success they had in the playoffs last season. So far this year, the Santa Monica High School Vikings have played two regular season games — last Wednesday they faced El Segundo and lost in straight
MAIN LIBRARY — Who are these people who think they should be responsible for making the biggest decisions that affect Santa Monica and its public school system? Some of them have been in the public eye for a decade or two; others are making their first forays into local politics.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A Santa Monica seafood retailer has donated $10,000 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for king crab research. Santa Monica Seafood, based in the city of the same name, donated the money to Alaska Sea Grant.
DOWNTOWN — Education activists organized as the group LEAD is pushing for a new direction on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District board, endorsing two challengers in November’s election and declining to support incumbents Oscar de la Torre and Ralph Mechur.
Rats are nature’s mobsters and serial killers with phenomenal disease-carrying pandemic abilities; they are feared and for good reasons. Rats, like people, have conquered all habitable continents.
DOWNTOWN — The leaders of Santa Monica education advocacy group Community for Excellent Public Schools had a hard time deciding whom to back for the City Council.
Measure Y is a ballot measure that will permanently raise the current 9 3/4 percent sales tax on taxable items purchased, delivered or registered in Santa Monica one-half percent to 10 1/4 percent.
CityTV, the government access cable channel for Santa Monica, has launched its “Vote 2010” line-up of Santa Monica election programming for the Nov. 2 election.
CITY HALL — With the Big Blue Bus fare increase that took effect in August, Santa Monica’s transit system is projected to remain solvent through mid 2013; after that, new revenue is needed to prevent cuts to service, city officials said.
