From the mid 1920s when the city of Santa Monica held a special municipal election on park bonds to acquire much of the existing Santa Monica Airport property (SMO), decisions
Study after study shows that we are being inundated with more messages, advertising, marketing, and distractions than ever before in history. Between the TV, newspapers, magazines, books, e-books, Facebook, Instagram,
One of the city's smaller, but more contentious developments is before the Planning Commission this coming Wednesday evening. It's the granting of a conditional use permit
Dear EarthTalk: If "cap and trade" has worked so well in Europe for reducing greenhouse gas emissions there, why haven't we tried something similar here in
As with many writers, I've had a number of odd jobs. (Keyword: odd.)
For example, in college I parked cars at a mafia-financed restaurant where I occasionally encountered
