SMMUSD HDQTRS — Despite the failure of Measure A at the polls last month, school district boosters have not ruled out the possibility of placing another local funding measure on the ballot this November, members of a committee studying the issue said this week.
Since I come from Chicago, people out here often tease me about the politics of my home city and state. South Carolina is starting to take the heat off my homeland when it comes to scandals.
Q: With all of these new social networking websites I am worried about the safety of my kids. I am specifically worried about who they are meeting on the Internet and what they are being exposed to.
CITY HALL — Newly appointed by his City Council colleagues to serve as mayor, Bobby Shriver is using at least some of his newfound clout to pursue a longtime goal: holding shorter meetings.
VENICE — A scraggly man with a missing front tooth and a gruff, gray beard sits in the back of a late 1980s Dodge Ram conversion van parked on Rennie Avenue just south of the Santa Monica border with Venice.
MIDCITY — Hit hard by unanticipated facility repairs, the 18th Street Art Center is asking the public for emergency donations to help close its $10,000 budget gap by June 30.
CITY HALL — A proposal to bar all but five of 44 licensed taxi cab companies from operating in Santa Monica and reduce the total number of cabs allowed in the city by nearly half could get the City Council’s approval on Tuesday, part of a plan that City Hall officials say will improve the quality of
DOWNTOWN — A woman and a man from Camarillo were behind bars today in connection with the murder of aspiring model-actress Juliana Maureen Redding, whose body was discovered in March 2008 in her Santa Monica apartment.
Despite their harmless façade, The Beatles symbolized the generational revolt — even an estrangement from parents — that marked the 1960s. “My mother hates them, my father hates them, my teacher hates them,” said one young fan.
RAND Corp. — They may have been small in magnitude, but recent earthquakes that have rattled floorboards in Santa Monica and beyond have also served as needed reminders that a large-scale disaster could happen any time.
CITY HALL — With sharp decreases in revenue because of the recession, cities across the Southland have had to make tough decisions about cutting programs, dropping projects and laying off employees.
Dear New Shrink, I have been feeling terrible. I think I might be depressed but my doctor doesn’t think so and when I read up on depression, I don’t have the symptoms.
