While her son should have told her that he was the victim of a hate crime (but it’s not surprising he didn’t given that kids might not realize the significance of an event or are worried about being singled out), Victoria Gray shouldn’t have had to find out about the incident involving her son, a wr
While Santa Monica may be considered by some to be a bike-friendly city, there is clearly more that can be done to make it safer to ride. Drivers need to be more aware of the law and pay closer attention to the road and the cyclists who share it.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Board of Education last week made the right move when it decided to change its substance abuse policy allowing students who are caught drinking or doing drugs the opportunity to regain certain privileges, including the right to participate in graduat
The effort by a San Diego-based organization to ban circumcision in Santa Monica on boys under the age of 18 has generated plenty of letters to the Daily Press over the last week, with people passionately expressing their support and opposition to the proposed ballot initiative, which will need a li
The owners of the Yahoo! Center are asking the City Council to allow them to continue leasing more than 1,000 parking spaces to people like Saint John’s Health Center and local car dealers, something they have been doing illegally under the terms of their development agreement for at least a decade.
City officials working to house Santa Monica’s homeless are contemplating leaving the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s continuum of care over disputes about funding and housing vouchers.
Even though a community survey released in April showed that concerns over gangs and youth violence have dropped to an all-time low, with only 14 percent of the 407 respondents ranking it as a high priority while 55 percent didn’t give it much thought at all, the Daily Press believes there is no rea
While it should have happened sooner, the Daily Press is pleased that the City Council Tuesday supported an amendment to the Living Wage Law that will require contractors hired by City Hall to not only pay a decent wage, but to also provide the same health care and other benefits to workers’ same-se
It’s clear that pornography has no place in a public library, but despite common sense and the recognized standards of decent and proper behavior, there are those perverts who get off by watching porn in public on library computers.
Doormen at some of Santa Monica’s ritziest hotels will continue to pressure cab drivers into paying them bribes or “cookies” in exchange for more lucrative fares until hotel managers and City Hall start enforcing the law which makes the long-standing practice illegal.
It’s frustrating and disappointing that Saint John’s Hospital believes it can meet its parking obligation by abandoning a reasonable plan to build a subterranean parking garage and instead continue to lease spaces at nearby lots and rely on valet parking to serve its patients and their families, as
Once again trees are causing a stir in Santa Monica as City Hall moved forward Tuesday with plans to remodel Reed Park by removing 45 juniper trees that lined Wilshire Boulevard adjacent to the park’s heavily-used tennis courts.
