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I literally just woke up! So Michael Dell sets up his wife as 49 percent owner to avoid paying property taxes on his purchase price of $200 million for
As the new City Hall budget season nears, there are many competing interests scrambling for still shrinking dollars.
Despite the robust looking Dow Jones market indicators, we aren't
Over the past 350 columns, I've often written about colorful and eccentric local characters. Veteran film director Henry Jaglom, a Santa Monican for 20 years, certainly fits that
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I always shopped at Santa Monica Place, that is, until it became "Dubai by the Bay." I let the City Council members and developers do their shopping
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Facts are important. When facts get in the way of an interesting narrative, facts must come first. In your reporting of the Downtown forum on heights and density, your
Dear New Shrink,
After all the news regarding the Boston Marathon bombing, I find myself wondering, when is crazy really crazy and when is it not? Are these brothers crazy?
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I went to a workshop last night at the Civic Auditorium to review the Downtown Specific Plan and hear public comment. The presentation from the city was all about
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Santa Monica is contradictory. It is a supposed liberal city on one hand, and on the other hand they cater to the developers, causing traffic, density and parking problems
Most voters agree that big corporations and the wealthy should start paying their fair share in taxes. But of course big corporations and the wealthy don't want to
Last week, this column looked at the anomaly of how the Democratic Party — which proudly holds itself out as the champion of working people — vigorously pursues policies that cost working
