What’s happening on the state budget this week — or, more accurately, not happening — is the latest chapter in a 15-year-long saga of manipulative Capitol politics.
Sometime before Saturday night,
The Tap is back
If your doctor mutters the words "spinal tap," run for cover. But when I write them, rejoice! Because the way beyond excellent incredibly legendary
Our weekly guide to food and entertainment goings-on in and around town includes multiple Pride and Juneteenth celebrations, the annual Cardboard Yacht Regatta, Montana Avenue Summer Kick-Off and much more!
California has a rich and complex history. With that, comes a responsibility to acknowledge and address the painful legacy of slavery.
Even though California was accepted into the union as
Thousands of delivery drivers filed legal claims against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the company’s classification of them as independent contractors instead of employees has led to unpaid wages and
In 1984, George Orwell’s novel about a dystopian future, he describes "newspeak," a propagandistic language of euphemisms and inversions used by officialdom to mask the reality of
Dear Editor,
I am writing to bring light to the maltreatment of the three lovely hens currently surviving in a small cage of dirt and filth on Yale Street in
Dear Editor,
Our city council seems to want Santa Monica to be ever more trashy and financially struggling, rather than classy and financially sound.
Thanks to a well-deserved reputation for
Today’s council meeting includes a request by some members to investigate leaks of information from closed sessions; a fine idea, but one that has to recognize that this council
Almost four hundred years ago, Thomas Hobbes argued that the social contract meant trading freedom for security. That the State of Nature is a war against all. The sovereign must
1. The client is the HOA corporation, not the President or any individual director. Make sure you know whether the person instructing you or your staff is authorized to speak
It’s the billion-dollar question. That’s how much cities and other local governments have been receiving from the state each year to deal with California’s ever-increasing population of
