Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks — Rusty, Richard and Sydney — from the canals of Venice who are on a mission to educate the community about the dangers of global warming and the importance of practicing sustainability, all while surfing the most gnarly waves possible.
The lawsuit filed by the Southern California ACLU against the city of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Police Department has been dismissed by a federal judge.
It’s official: another U.S. car brand has been killed, going the way of Saturn, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Hummer and Saab (so far). This time it’s Mercury, part of the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co.
Q: Are fireworks legal in the City of Santa Monica? A: No fireworks, including the so-called “safe and sane” fireworks, are allowed within the city of Santa Monica, even if they are legal for use within the city they were purchased.
One thing our founding fathers were sure of is that they didn’t want a king in this new country. They didn’t want one person to be regarded as something so special that people would have to bow down to him and treat him almost like a god.
Eons ago (actually, 1929) my father attended UCLA as part of the first class on the Westwood campus. My mother enrolled two years later. It’s probably not surprising that, growing up in my house, the late John Wooden was like a god.
In light of the terrible disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the wars this country wages for oil, the U.S. must change its ways if we are to survive financially and environmentally.
Dear New Shrink, Like many others, the current job climate in California has put a damper on my own career prospects. My organization has implemented several cost cutting measures including downsizing salaried staff and reducing our take-home pay by forcing mandatory closures.
In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, it seems like every day brings new word of some calamitous failing at the Minerals Management Service, the federal agency charged with regulating offshore oil drilling.
Having just flown back from the Indy 500 race, I was reminded of the importance of education and good hygiene. That’s why I donated $198 to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and encourage all 13,671 voters that voted yes on Measure A to donate $198 right now.
Something you may not know about your occasionally cynical, slightly jaded, friendly neighborhood columnist is that I love the young people. Having done work with a local organization (which I’m sure would prefer to remain nameless) for the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to form friendships
Men are such beasts. At least, that is the conventional wisdom. We are considered to be smelly, brutish, crude creatures who know only the satisfaction of carnal pleasures.
