State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson is encouraging disadvantaged families to utilize the Summer Food Service Program which is located at three Santa Monica sites: the Police Activities League, Virginia Avenue Park and John Adams Middle School.
CITY HALL – The City Council, because of a technicality, put off a vote Tuesday on whether or not to create a program to pay SMO flight schools to do training at other airports.
CITY HALL ¬ó A citizen-led committee voted to recommend that the Board of Education place a $385 million bond on the November ballot after polling results showed that prospective voters in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District were more likely to pass a bond than a parcel tax.
Santa Monica College will honor Independence Day this Saturday with fireworks and an outdoor festival. More than 8,000 people are expected to attend the event’s 30th anniversary celebration held at SMC’s Corsair Field.
In Sacramento, the appalling consequences of one party rule have become manifest. Last summer, I wrote about one party rule in the Legislature and pointed out the similarities with the early days of fascist Italy, where the party gained control of the Italian Parliament through intimidation.
A Santa Monica condominium complex is in the running to receive an award for most innovative green renovation project this Thursday. The Urban Green Council in New York City will issue EBie Awards to those projects that reduced emissions and lowered the amount of energy used.
DOWNTOWN ¬ó Residents and business owners will have a chance next month to confront the U.S. Postal Service about its plans to shutter the historic Fifth Street Post Office and move operations a few blocks south to Seventh Street.
Some day in the future when I’ve died and my daughters eulogize my life at the funeral, I have no doubt most of how they’ll remember me to others will be measured by how many more times I told them “no” than “yes” throughout our years together.
DOWNTOWN — Santa Monica officials may pride themselves on forward-thinking parking policies, but what’s good for traffic congestion may not be good for the bottom line.
COLORADO AVE — The producer of classic cartoons from the 1980s and ‘90s was in a medically-induced coma over the weekend after being struck by a car in an alleged hit-and-run early Saturday morning.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
BOSTON — The attorney for James “Whitey” Bulger said Monday that the former Boston mob boss and one-time FBI informant shouldn’t be prosecuted in 19 murders because the government promised him immunity for past or future crimes.
