Editor:
Thank you for your article on the outrageous salaries Santa Monica city officials are paying themselves ("Bringing home the bacon: Breakdown of highest-paid city employees," Sept. 14-15)
Washington is beginning to debate the proper extent of government eavesdropping powers in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA. It's hardly as robust
Efforts to increase taxes on business property put homeowners in peril; here's why.
Sacramento can never get enough tax money to satisfy the political class. Although California has
Editor:
Sept. 21 was the annual Coastal Cleanup Day. Roughly 11,000 volunteers came to the beach and donated their time to manually sift a total of 24,000 pounds
Editor:
I keep hearing politicians saying that their action in shutting down the government unless the new healthcare law is delayed for a year is proper and is what the
Ask most residents what their number one complaint is about Santa Monica and most likely they're reply — traffic. City officials have long talked about the housing-jobs imbalance that
Traffic Demand Management (TDM) is a program City Hall has touted as the answer to gridlock on city streets. TDM is a program in which property owners and employers will
Editor:
Excellent and important piece by [columnist Charles] Andrews ("Please, let that stupid mushroom cloud go," Curious City, Sept. 28-29).
For me, as the creator and chair of
You can never have too many citizen groups, so another organization has popped up. This one is promoting turning Santa Monica Airport (SMO) into a 227-acre green park.
Airport2park.org
Dear EarthTalk: I saw an article on sugar's effects on the environment. Has anyone compared different sweeteners (artificial or natural) for their environmental impacts?
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