THERE’S ONLY A COUPLE WEEKS LEFT for registered Santa Monica voters to sign the Resident’s Initiative to Fight Traffic (RIFT) to qualify it for the November ballot. RIFT
By Jerry Rubin Santa Monica Treesavers
The City of Santa Monica, specifically the City Manager’s Office spent thousands and thousands of taxpayer dollars to mail to virtually every resident
By Ted Winterer Santa Monica
The Daily Press reported (”Chiefs ask for personnel,” page 1, March 13, 2008) that Police Chief Jackman and Fire Chief Hone has requested funding from
By Elizabeth Brown Kichen Vixen Guilty pleasures
IT HAPPENS EVERY MARCH WITHOUT fail. It has nothing to do with age, experience or will-power. You order them out of habit
anymore. Breathing is getting harder and harder. It is unconscionable that a jet should fly into such a small airport. Get them out of here, back to where they belong,
This past week, Q-line asked: The City Council last week passed a ban of the largest and fastest jets that operate out of the Santa Monica Airport. The Federal
By Paul Bergman Santa Monica
Parkinson’s Law live again! One of Cyril Parkinson’s famous “laws” satirizing government bureaucracies can be paraphrased as, “The less work there is to
Editor:
By Peter H. Cressy President and CEO Distilled Spirits Council
As a country, we continue to make important progress in reducing underage drinking, but much more needs to be
By Zina Josephs Santa Monica
The March 29th article, “Chamber opposes potential initiative,” refers to The Residents Initiative to Fight Traffic, “which has been endorsed by several neighborhood groups and
EVERYBODY WHO IS EVEN REMOTELY interested in sports knows that this is the weekend for the NCAA college basketball Final Four. This year, the teams are UCLA, North Carolina, Memphis,
Getting drunk for a good reason
Editor’s note: For the next six weeks, Editor in Chief Kevin Herrera will be writing a first-person account of what it’s
By Merv Hecht RE-View
FRIENDS TELL ME THAT TO WRITE AN article that‘s going to be widely read, the title has to include either the words “Britney” or
