Proposition 25 is the latest weapon against Proposition 13, but backers don’t want voters to know it. Statewide polls taken in recent years consistently show Proposition 13 to be as popular as it was 32 years ago when it passed with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
Rats are nature’s mobsters and serial killers with phenomenal disease-carrying pandemic abilities; they are feared and for good reasons. Rats, like people, have conquered all habitable continents.
I come from a loud Italian-Irish-German family. My parents fought — often. Sometimes it would be a “civilized” and mostly verbal, with the occasional tossing of a frying pan or breaking of a glass.
Measure Y is a ballot measure that will permanently raise the current 9 3/4 percent sales tax on taxable items purchased, delivered or registered in Santa Monica one-half percent to 10 1/4 percent.
It’s cool when a car-maker consistently rides the big ones, surfing the next wave upon wave of technology while still trying to keep some of their corporate heritage in the mix.
Grilling hot dogs, homemade ice cream sandwiches and the snap-crackling sounds of barbecuing corn on the cob. The organizers of the 2010 Abbott Kinney Festival were ignited this past weekend as the mercury rose enough to finally deliver Santa Monica its first summer day of 2010.
Q. I frequently see people smoking while walking along the bike path at the beach. Isn’t it illegal to smoke on the beach in Santa Monica? A. It is a violation to smoke on any public beach in Santa Monica.
Boy is my face red. And not because of sunburn from our recent heatwave. A year ago I wrote a column about artist Drew Hill, a homeless former football star with 14 seasons in the NFL.
City Hall employees should be recognized for agreeing to cover a portion of their health insurance premiums and City Manager Rod Gould and his management team should be commended for tackling this controversial topic at a time when emotions are running high because of the recession and its impact on
We have received several e-mails and posts to our website (www.www.smdp.com) regarding the nocturnal art event Glow and how horribly disappointed people were with last Saturday’s event.
We are tired of hearing from Santa Monica city staff that they are “working” with those who have violated development agreements that have not been properly monitored for decades.
“Neighbors,” a play now having its West Coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre, is an angry, nasty, hateful, and thoroughly mean-spirited take on the “black experience” in America.
