More than 50 percent of the planet’s 6.8 billion people live in cities. Cities consume 75 percent of the world’s energy and produce 80 percent of anthropocentric greenhouse gases.
“I want you to keep it local.” That’s what my editor says. I do my best, but the problem is that sometimes, and with increasing frequency as the world becomes smaller, it’s all local.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has lurched from one fiscal crisis to another for the past two decades. It’s a deep, dark money pit run by administrators and governed by a Board of Education with little aptitude for managing money.
Q: I was out walking the other day and a man walked up to me and asked me for directions. He asked for money to catch the bus because he locked his keys and wallet in his car.
The mob is back in Las Vegas. (This assumes that the mob ever left.) Soon there will be two museums dedicated to gangsters of the past. You’d think that Las Vegas would want people to forget its mob origins.
Dear Rachel, After five years of living together, my partner told me he loves me, but he doesn’t want to be with me anymore. He moved out six weeks ago.
The legendary TV cop drama, “The Naked City” (1958) was set in Manhattan. Each episode ended with the famous voice-over, “There are eight million stories, in the Naked City.
The only times in my life that I’ve had to share a bedroom were my freshman year in college and then the semester I studied abroad. I don’t count my current room at home as one that I share since my husband and I both know that it’s mine, although I am gracious enough to let him sleep and store his
Locking my bike to the steel chair on the Third Street Promenade just outside Old Navy (and intent on walking inside for the usual spending spree) I was halted by a city enforcer.
If you are a voter and want to keep your rent, utility tax and sales tax low and at the same time save the environment, have lots of happy, well-paid teachers, police and firemen, then you must vote to take money from corporate America.
Being a Boston Celtics fan living in the land of the purple and gold has its ups and downs. Beating the Lakers in the finals in 2008 with a series-clinching 40-point win was definitely an “up.
It’s easy to say no to our children when they’re demanding that extra piece of candy or an expensive pair of designer jeans. But, when it comes to education, it’s nearly impossible to look into their eyes and deny them what they need to succeed in a world that is more competitive than ever.
