Santa Monicans, their neighbors and countless other people around the world spent their weekend celebrating Passover and Easter. As they did so, some may think back to two December holidays, Christmas and Chanukah, and the much-loved community displays of the nativity scenes and menorah in Palisades
The City of Angels might soon be joining a growing web of California jurisdictions banning single-use, plastic carry-out bags. The Los Angeles City Council had earlier expressed support for some sort of plastic bag ban, but controversy over whether a fee should be placed on paper bags — or whether t
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District school board has another embarrassment on its hands. This time its the March 20 resignation of Joan Chu Reese, vice chair of the district’s Financial Oversight Committee.
Q: My cousin just moved in with me and it turns out he is on probation. Will that affect me or my job? Is there anything I can do to help him stay out of jail? A: These are great questions and you could find yourself in this particular situation any time you are attempting to help a family member ge
April 29th will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. riots. If you’re thinking that’s impossible and where did the time go, that makes two of us.
Apple has gone on a very public tax strike. Months after reporting the second highest quarterly profits in U.S. history, America’s favorite company is refusing to bring home more than $60 billion of offshore funds in protest of the taxes it would have to pay.
About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter ice age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today. We don’t fully understand what caused that great climate shift, but we know it was near the time of that great temperature transition that people started to farm.
I’m not saying I’m above buying a celebrity-endorsed product. I have no idea what Spareavtale is, but I’d eagerly acquire it by the bushelful if it meant I, too, could inexplicably wake up with a 10-carat diamond ring that my über-sexy, affectionate and adoring new husband, George Clooney, furtively
Nothing epitomizes the abject failure of California governance more than the so-called High Speed Rail Project or, as it has been derisively labeled, “High Speed Fail.
A common insult aimed at someone trying to accomplish something in the public realm these days is to say: “He’s playing politics with the issue.” And if you want to disparage a policy decision? “It was political.
Kim Longwood may be the most hated school administrator in Sioux City, Iowa, if not America, after her inclusion in the movie “Bully.” It’s a well deserved sobriquet as she victimizes the victim in a schoolyard pattern of abuse.
The Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR) leadership was up to its old tricks a week ago on Sunday. The occasion was a meeting where endorsements for a candidate for the 50th Assembly District primary was, or wasn’t, on the agenda.
