Dear Mayor Bloom, City Council members and City Manager Rod Gould, We are writing to you with our views concerning a new planning director. This position is of critical importance to our city.
If you’re an average woman, you want two children, according to various surveys. That means you’ll spend about five years of your life trying to become pregnant, being pregnant or recovering from pregnancy, and 30 years trying to avoid it.
The reforming zealots are at it again! This time their latest cause is infant male circumcision, a procedure that has been practiced in western culture for thousands of years.
Last week, I wrote that City Hall was trying to determine a legal way to share revenues with the schools from a half cent increase in the sales and use tax (Measures Y and YY) approved by voters last fall.
Q: Thanks for the gun safety information that was published in last week’s Daily Press. It was very helpful. I’m taking my family camping this holiday weekend and there’s a shooting range at the campsite where we are staying.
This might surprise you, but I was not invited to Oprah Winfrey’s two-day party that celebrated her 25-year-old show ending. I’m sure I would have enjoyed hanging out with people like Aretha Franklin, Tom Cruise, and Michael Jordan.
Anybody who follows this column knows that occasionally I vent about what I perceive to be injustices. (OK, maybe it’s more than occasionally.) But today I’m proudly writing about my eldest niece, Jennifer.
Dear New Shrink, I accepted a new job opportunity and will soon be leaving my current organization. I have been told that I need to write a letter of resignation.
If bills now circulating in the legislature had been law for the last 35 years, here are just a few of the things California would be without: tougher penalties for sex offenders, the Coastal Commission, the victims’ bill of rights, auto insurance reform, protections for local government, schools an
I’m hardly the first working mom — or human being — to have a busy schedule. But I might be in line to win an award (booby prize?) for the busy streak on which my schedule and I are about to embark.
Summer is unofficially here, come this weekend. Another year is flying by, thankfully this one has some great upbeat moments, and the future is looking bright.
Deja-vu. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District may float another parcel tax and/or construction bond proposition next election. The Board of Education on Thursday discussed reconvening the district’s citizen scoping committee and began the process of evaluating parcel tax and bond proposal
