MICHIGAN AVE — Drive along Michigan Avenue today near Crossroads School where it overlooks the buzzing I-10 Freeway, and you’ll notice something different — trees.
Dear EarthTalk: I understand there is to be another Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012, 20 years since the last one was held in the same city.
WILSHIRE BLVD — After a hate-hate relationship with a boyfriend’s pet parrot, Mira Tweti didn’t feel any particular affinity toward the exotic birds. That changed when she picked up a rainbow lorikeet at an Echo Park lotus festival in 1995.
DOWNTOWN — Some things are better left unsaid, but others can feel impossible to get out. A new program offered at WISE & Healthy Aging is designed to get the elderly to write letters to people who will never see them as a way to work out and examine complex emotions that they so far have not been a
DOWNTOWN — Since the beginning of the year, City Hall has intervened behind-the-scenes to keep approximately 50 low and extremely-low income individuals in their apartments after rents increased beyond the threshold of their government subsidies and ability to pay.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Environmental groups say Southern California’s Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park is polluting the Santa Clara River with contaminated water and trash that flows to the ocean.
CITY HALL — The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation got a much-needed injection of cash from the City Council Tuesday night to support its new role as the main fundraiser for programs in the local school district.
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police hope video of a fight earlier this month on a Santa Monica Big Blue Bus will lead to identification of the man who slugged and critically injured a fellow passenger who stepped on his foot.
OLYMPIC HIGH SCHOOL — City officials accepted a proposal this week from a local nonprofit to help lessen its impacts on the neighborhoods and businesses around it, but residents remain skeptical that the agreement has any teeth.
WASHINGTON — The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.
CITY HALL — Under a plan approved in concept by the City Council Tuesday night, seniors in Santa Monica will have more ways to get around, but will have to give up a cherished activities space at the Senior Recreation Center in Palisades Park.
