Santa Monica may be the most comfortable place to live in the entire world. We have excellent year around weather, access to world class amenities and enough affluence as a
A run-of-the-mill update from the Los Angeles city administrator late last month contained a passage that sent a shiver of anxiety through this city’s leadership.
Describing an upgrade of
The timing could not have been better — or worse.
The horrendously destructive and deadly Los Angeles wildfires erupted in January just as Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s historic and very
Around Town: Art Week & Black History Month Events
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes Black History Month Celebrations, multiple art
MAHLER!
NATIONAL STRIKE, FEB. 28 - Silence is consent. Europeans have a tradition of taking to the streets if they strongly disapprove of what their government is doing in their
POETRY MAN ROGER STEFFENS @CIOP SAT-courtesy photo
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SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes a ton of Valentine’s Day dining options, anti-Valentine’s Day events, and much more!
A proverb said to have arisen in 16th-century England postulates that “too many cooks spoil the broth.” When too many people are working on a project without clear accountability, it
Any student of California history knows the story of the 1906 earthquake. San Francisco was torn apart by the quake itself, then ravaged by the fire that followed. California’s
California can step up big when it wants to.
Three years ago, California received an ‘A’ on the California Environmental Scorecard, an annual tool to assess the state’s environmental
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In the wake of the disastrous fires that engulfed Los Angeles last month, the most immediate reaction of policymakers has been to focus on measures to help the victims
