CITYWIDE — Some communities suffer from a lack of information. Santa Monica may have too much. Two community organizations and one outside lobbying group each released statistics in recent months attempting to put hard numbers to one of the Westside’s most controversial questions: How many people
Dear Gov. Brown, California taxpayers are tired of being misled and desperately want to hear the truth about the state budget. In 2010, voters gave you and the legislative majority control of the process by passing Proposition 25 because they thought this would ¬ó at long last ¬ó ensure the delivery
It was a meeting of the butts that need no padding and the mile-long fake eyelashes for which academics, scholars and philosophers, plastic surgeons and aestheticians have been waiting for days, if not minutes, to witness: Kim Kardashian vs.
SANTA ANA, Calif. ¬ó Three people in Southern California have been charged with running a prostitution ring that recruited women from Latvia and Russia to work in the sex trade in Los Angeles and Orange County, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Unlike Eve, if you had picked Apple early on you are lucky. I bought 300 shares of Apple stock when it was $250 a share. Of course, at that price I couldn’t afford to buy much more than that.
CITYWIDE ¬ó Assemblywoman Betsy Butler (D-53rd) and Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom still hold the lead in the race for the 50th Assembly District as provisional ballots continued to trickle in Friday.
DOWNTOWN — About the same time as “The Simpsons” first appears as a series of shorts on “The Tracey Ullman Show;” U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down the Berlin Wall” during a visit to Germany; Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” becomes the
OCEAN AVENUE — The slow unwind of Santa Monica’s Redevelopment Agency may take another casualty — Chez Jay. The historic business, already facing the possibility of losing its spot on the edge of the planned Palisades Garden Walk park, could find itself with a new owner if the state Department of
Like political soap opera?How about the palace coup at the Wilshire/Montana Neighborhood Coalition meeting (Wilmont) last week? Wilmont’s board of directorssupports therenovation and expansion of the Fairmont-Miramar Hotel because itwould include on-site employee parking, eliminate the need for hund
The California Nutrition Law Information and Enforcement Act states: As of Jan. 1, 2010 the law requires that large restaurant chains with 20 or more locations in California disclose calorie information.
BOSTON — The day after the longtime girlfriend of mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was sentenced to eight years in prison for helping him while he was on the run, her lawyer filed a notice in court saying she may appeal.
In case you haven’t noticed, Father’s Day is less than 48 hours away. (Who knows, you could have been kidnapped by aliens and lost track of time.) I can tell Father’s Day is approaching because of all the commercials for tools, tires and mattresses.
