Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights political leaders have called the shots In Santa Monica for more than three decades. The organization’s core beliefs center around affordable housing, tenants rights, social services and sustainability to name a few.
In these very serious times, it seems that it’s appropriate to get rid of some of the silly or outdated laws that are still on the books. I’m talking about things like it being illegal in Oklahoma to tease dogs by making ugly faces, Michigan’s law that forbids a wife from having her hair cut without
Q: I have been in a dating relationship for years and my significant other has become increasingly violent towards me. He gets aggressive and has on more than one occasion grabbed me and shook me.
News came two weeks ago that the “black boxes” in Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks, which constantly monitor and record every usage aspect of throttle and brake position, vehicle speed, engine temp and much, much more, are showing overwhelmingly that the vehicles involved in “unintended acceleration
Last week I wrote about Mel Gibson’s phone calls to his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. This week Gibson’s lawyers and PR staff are spinning faster than at an aerobics class.
At the same moment that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was being chided by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for having clerked for the suddenly demonic “activist judge,” Thurgood Marshall, Marshall himself, in the person of actor Laurence Fishburne, was enthralling audiences in a
Dear New Shrink, I often come up with new ideas at work which I enjoy sharing with my team. However, several times now I have shared ideas with no immediate feedback.
I like being the center of attention, just not on purpose. As such, parties have long played a complicated role in my life. Eating cake is a tremendous way to pass the time, but I prefer that the name written on it be someone’s other than mine.
There are two kinds of people in this country today: those who can earn money overseas and everybody else. While some of us are able to capitalize on the opportunities presented in other markets, hundreds of millions of our fellow Americans make all their money here, where they live.
The last years of the Bush administration saw frequent protests against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike Vietnam, the anger was not misdirected toward soldiers, but toward the leaders that keep sending our youth to war.
I’m scared. It’s been said that if you build it, they will come. But what wasn’t said was where they were going to park. In about three weeks, Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom and a host of other retail stores are opening at the Santa Monica Place.
Imagine the most perfect tree on Earth: one above all others in magnificence, size, height, productivity, architecture, ability to draw thousands of gallons of water, yet marvelously resist drought, fire, insects, disease, mudslides, flooding, wind; and they possess exquisite bio-diversity in their
