The Los Angeles City Council has issued a moratorium banning new fast food restaurants in South Central Los Angeles for a year. This ban covers a 32-square-mile area with 500,000 low-income, racially-mixed minority group residents.
Editor’s Note: Meet the “Quackers,” three young surf ducks, born and raised in the canals of Venice. Their passion in life: surfing and saving the earth.
Congress is in a blind rush to consider and most likely approve George Bush’s $700 billion proposal to bail out Wall Street. The real issue is where were our representatives when Wall Street moguls were in effect stealing the country blind? The answer is simple: many in Congress were doing the same
In addition to state bond measures 1A, 3, 10 and 12 (that’ll add billions of dollars to California’s budget deficit) and tax increase measures from both the city of Santa Monica and Santa Monica College, there’s also Los Angeles County Measure R on November’s ballot for local voters to ponder.
By Dan Dawson Wanderlust
THE WORLD IS A BOOK AND THOSE WHO don’t travel read only one page. I heard this quote several months ago and it has stuck
By Merv Hecht Re-View
IN THE 1950S, GOING OUT TO DINNER in Los Angeles meant going to La Cienega Boulevard to “Restaurant Row.” Lawry’s prime rib was a
By BENNET KELLEY
THIS MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOSE who read my column, but yet, I am voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin to be our 43rd
By Sharon McGeeney Santa Monica
Thank you Bill for pointing out the truth on Measure AA on the upcoming ballot.
We who have lived this ongoing and growing “empire making”
By David Alsabery Santa Monica
Bill Bauer’s article about the community college bond (“More ‘tax and spend on this year’s ballot,” page 4, Sept. 22), combined with the
By Andrew Kay Liberman Santa Monica
A great solution for Santa Monica’s auto parking problem, (“Drivers pay high price for parking,” page 1, Sept. 24), is to pick up
RECENTLY I PAID MY REPUBLICAN family a visit in Arizona.
It was an excellent getaway, a celebration for my mother’s 50th birthday at the Grand Hotel in the old
TWO DAYS. THAT’S HOW MUCH TIME John McCain and his sorry excuse for a presidential campaign has left to try to fool me and my fellow Americans. Two days.
