To outsiders, California appears to be a decidedly liberal state. After all, Mitt Romney is unlikely to even contest the Golden State and our super high taxes and regulatory burden
After a nearly five-year absence from the sport in which I completed six marathons, I very recently started running again. While the times in my previous running career were nothing
I was extremely disappointed that the Santa Monica Daily Press gave an organization, the Family Research Council, that has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate
Much has appeared in the local press the past few weeks about the chicanerysurrounding the Wilshire-Montana Neighborhood Association (Wilmont) elections. But,Wilmont is small potatoescompared to the flim-flammery perpetrated bySanta
It probably comes as no surprise that the two most powerful words topping America's "I can't say that" list are "sex" and
Even though it's hard to recall what I did during the evenings before the Olympics (or what I'll do when they're over) I do
I met with a good friend in the U.S. Secret Service recently. We had breakfast and talked over money, specifically, United States currency. There are innumerable ways to counterfeit
Dear Life Matters,
I'm a 19-year-old girl of East Indian and African decent. I had a daughter recently and her dad, also 19 and of East Indian descent,
Taken together, the microbes living in you weigh a few pounds. Just for example, a 200-pound man could be carrying up to six pounds of little organisms in and on him.
Small towns are comfortable because of the warmth of the people and the hospitality they tend to offer. Santa Monica is a small town in many ways and it is
The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce supported the last increase in the federal minimum wage in July 2009 and we believe another raise is overdue. The business
OnWednesday, Aug. 1, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Educationwill consider placing a $385 million school construction/improvement bond on the November ballot.
The measure wouldcost the average
