Americans have grown suspicious of tap water quality, yet it’s doubtful many could name a single contaminant they imagine spewing from Santa Monica faucets.
Voicing his discontent with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in U.S. v. Pineda-Moreno, which declared the warrantless use of a GPS tracking device to be constitutional, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski warned, “We are taking a giant leap into the unknown, and the consequences for ourselves and ou
With the recent uproar over the scandal-plagued city of Bell and its high-priced city manager, I thought I’d take a closer look at our city manager, as well as the other people that spend your money.
It’s no secret that real estate developers and the local land use attorneys who enable them are chomping at the bit to find ways to extract revenue from our humble, 8-square-mile beachfront urban utopia.
The price of fossil fuels is soaring; burning them releases greenhouse gases, and a byproduct from coal energy is toxic mercury vapour, which has contaminated the Arctic and now melt-waters are circulating mercury in our oceans.
The headline read, “California sperm donor stalks lesbian mother.” The problem is this, there was no stalking, it was a paternity case gone awry. I should know.
A funny thing happened on the way to the election. People started to get real. Last week, I attended an informal gathering of neighborhood group leaders and grass-roots community activists who get together from time to time to discuss politics.
Q: I noticed the school buses have a mechanical stop sign and flashing lights that extend outward when drivers are dropping off or picking up children.
I thought it was a joke when I heard that an airplane seat manufacturer was trying to sell airlines seats that are more uncomfortable than the ones we’re used to.
After over 1 million miles of prototype testing, the first new road car from McLaren since 1993 is ready for you. And the first place you can buy one, at about $250,000 a pop, is in mid-2011 at the Auto Gallery store on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
They say that bad news sells newspapers. The “they” in this case is the Pew Research Center, a “nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Dear New Shrink, I have been married for five years to a kind and honest man. While I know he loves me a lot, he is emotionally unavailable. I am his opposite; I am open, passionate and outgoing.
