I recently attended a “Community Conversations: The Future of Downtown Santa Monica” meeting, one of a number being held by the City Planners developing the new Downtown Community Plan. 18
As a young American who studied political science in college, I got the pleasure of studying in depth my heroes such as JFK and FDR. However, I draw the unlucky
Some days you just want to go for some old school comfort food, or at least an old school restaurant for some comfort. Saturday night, post workout, on day 20
By Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D.
On the first day of class, I always inform my university students that I hold two PhDs. One from a premier research institution, UC Berkeley,
Beginning next month, customer service calls to Southern California Gas for help with lighting pilot lights and getting their gas turned on in preparation for winter’s cold weather will
When describing Santa Monica, many would consider it to be a well-educated community. However, the City of Santa Monica’s 2014 Youth Wellbeing Report Card shows that 8% of high
Seeds burst with life. Wondrous, seemingly miraculous, in a seed, as tiny as a fleck or grain, is an embryo of a flowering plant, a food, a tree. Those seeds
Spending three days riding three hundred miles on a bicycle, you think about a lot of things: Your sore backside. Water. The abundant and beautiful farmland. And what it really
We can curb high alcohol and drug use by Santa Monica youth.
Earlier this year a new survey revealed the vast majority (86%) of Santa Monica youth find it “somewhat”