Sea turtles are ancient but not primitive. Having evolved on land some 200 million years ago, they spend their entire lives at sea except to lay eggs on rugged beaches around the globe.
Burgers, BBQs and beer — these are the hallmarks of the upcoming Fourth of July celebration. This year as we honor our freedoms and occasionally remember the ones who fought for them, let’s keep in mind the value of those freedoms.
Good news for car collectors: Your pride and joy may not be a clunker, thanks to the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA). SEMA managed to inject an addition to the so-called clunker law which exempts cars and trucks older than 25 years from this new federal program.
Q: I recently heard that as of Jan. 1, 2009, drivers are no longer allowed to text message while they are operating a vehicle. True? A: Yes. California passed SB28, which prohibits drivers from using electronic wireless communication devices to write, send or read text-based messages.
“Most citizens,” writes columnist Nat Hentoff, “are largely uneducated about their own constitutional rights and liberties.” The following true incident is a case in point for Hentoff’s claim.
I received an e-mail from regular ”My Write” reader Helen Auerbach. She had a question about the former Berkshire skilled nursing care facility at 2602 Broadway recently acquired by Community Corporation of Santa Monica for redevelopment into a new, public-housing project.
What’s the biggest secret that the president and his administration tried to keep from us? Was it about health care? Did it deal with foreign-policy? Was it where he hides the key to the front door at Camp David? No, it’s about whether the president still smokes cigarettes.
When I was 12 I had a paper route, delivering Herald Examiner newspapers from my bicycle. The Examiner came out in the afternoon while the Times was L.
The state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) finally released its health advisory and safe eating guidelines for fish caught from coastal areas from Ventura Harbor south to the Dana Point area.
sum*mer*ize: (verb) -rized, -rizing. To pare down to warm weather essentials <summerize your wardrobe> –sum’me*ri*za’tion (noun) “This gold looks fake, you know?” the Japanese-American woman in front of me, in line for the H&M dressing rooms, tells her friend.
The Internet, sports radio and most of ESPN’s 47 cable channels have been crackling with excitement ever since Brett Favre recently suggested he might come out of retirement for the second time in as many years.
What do a patio, a successful business and a skyscraper have in common? A plan. All three needed to start here — either as a set of plans, a business plan or engineering plans, but a plan was involved.
