MALIBU CITY HALL —The Board of Education will hire consultants to analyze the impact of splitting the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District between its two incorporated cities after preliminary research by staff showed that the two new districts might survive the breakup.
CITY HALL — A hotel workers’ union will pull a challenge to a new hotel now that the developer has agreed to allow the union to organize future workers at the site.
PICO BLVD — A local fraternal order has filed suit against City Hall for allegedly taking burial spaces in Woodlawn Cemetery, Mortuary and Mausoleum reserved for its brethren and selling them to members of the public.
CITYWIDE — Door-to-door sales used to be confined to sub par magazine subscriptions and significantly more valued cookies. Now, add solar panels to the list.
The Ice Age is my favorite bit of Earth history, a time when mammoths, giant beavers and saber tooth tigers roamed the world. I was so impressed by the Ice Age when I was a child, reading about it in the school library, that I recognized the book I had studied decades later when I stumbled across it
They weren’t projecting, they were SHOUTING! And even if they were better actors, the play would still be a lot of frivolous twaddle. It’s “Early and Often,” a play by Barbara Wallace and Thomas R.
The grounds crew and recycling team at Santa Monica College were named the winners of the school’s 2012 EcoHero Awards April 26. Presented in the college’s Organic Learning Garden, the grounds crew and their supervisor, Tom Corpus, received the award for their work, which includes the incorporation
SMC — May Day came to the Main Stage of Santa Monica College Tuesday evening as labor leaders, teacher representatives and students continued their protest against a proposal for self-funded summer classes that the Board of Trustees and administration refuse to take off the table.
As a breast cancer survivor, Barbara Kort knows first hand about the importance of a calm and peaceful treatment center. With her recent donation to the Santa Monica- UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital, she said she hopes to give that gift to other women battling the disease.
Dear New Shrink, I am going through the worst time of my life trying to decide what to do. I cannot even believe it, but I am pregnant. The situation is far from ideal for having a baby, but I really am wondering what it all means to have an abortion, what the risks are and whether or not I will be
If my birthday last week wasn’t a sound indication that I’m getting old (older?) (oldish?), then all of the talk about proms in the news lately has made me feel practically ancient.