Love him or hate him, Peter Douglas, executive director of the California Coastal Commission for 26 years, was a charismatic leader. With his retirement, Californians see the end of involvement of the original activists behind the Coastal Initiative (Prop.
The Dodgers have 12 games remaining before the end of the season, which may be a relief for Dodger fans. At best the Dodgers will finish .500. Even worse, it appears they will still have Frank McCourt as their owner.
President Obama is proposing important steps toward doing what Americans have been asking for since the financial collapse of 2008 — putting a focus on families and jobs.
There is just one word for Jean Baker and Jean-Loup Dabadie’s new film "My Afternoons with Margueritte," and that’s delicious. In this one Gerard Depardieu is a big soft chocolate mousse and his costar, 97-year-old Gisele Casadesus, is a lean, crunchy baguette.
Could you imagine retiring at 50 years old, collecting more in retirement than you ever did while working? That scenario is a reality in the city of San Diego — and many other cities throughout California — but only for a few privileged public employees who enjoy unbelievable, and unsustainable, pen
My birthday is in two weeks. I’ll be 45 years old. It’s not one of the milestone birthdays, but it’s a milestone marker of my life. I’ve now outlived a brother, both my parents and have almost no cousins left.
As the rate of obese adults in America rises, so does the number of people being diagnosed with the painful form of arthritis known as gout, according to a recent article published in Reuters Health.
Last week, I wrote about City Councilman Bob Holbrook’s theory that "deep-pocketed" aviation interests may enter local politics and back pro-Santa Monica Airport candidates for City Council pledged to keep SMO open and even expand it as an aviation center.
CITYWIDE — Within the last two weeks, members of the Santa Monica community have received lengthy, anonymous phone calls from polling companies asking their opinions on politics and the Santa Monica Airport, but no one seems to know who is behind the effort.
CITYWIDE — When commercial airliners smashed into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11, 2001, Santa Monicans responded.
Q: It seems like my neighbors are having garage/yard sales every other weekend. It attracts a lot of people as we are located on a busy corner. Oftentimes it backs up and impedes traffic.
Wednesday’s auto accident involving Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and an 84-year-old driver serves as another reminder that the older we get the more careful we have to be behind the wheel.
