By Brian Hepp Market Matters
WHILE TAX TIME SEEMS FAR AWAY AT THIS POINT, it’s never too early to start planning for that inevitable annual ritual. And even though
Local activists the Treesavers have been successful in their bid to delay the city’s plan to remove over 50 ficus trees from the downtown area. They are still short
THE NEW FALL LINEUP IS IN FULL SWING and there is one show which stands out for me — “Cavemen.” It’s on ABC, and it is easily the most racist
By Ken McCrae Santa Monica
Thank God I live all the way over on Fifth Street — the beautiful, shade-providing ficus trees along my street will be spared... for now!
By Steven Keats
As soon as (City Manager Lamont Ewell) arrived, he gassed the squirrels. Now, he’s raised the city’s hatchet against the trees we love. What, or
By Sam Woolsey
Public funds are well spent on trimming the trees on Fourth Street. It doesn’t feel like you’re driving through a tunnel anymore.
Who knew there
By Ryan Williams
I found Thomas Bowden’s op-ed in Monday’s SMDP (“West is indebted to Chris Columbus,” Oct. 8) to be a ridiculous oversimplification. Columbus does not
By MICHAEL TITTINGER is Editor of the Santa Monica Daily Press. When he’s not waxing nostalgic about Wiffle Ball glory, he
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Local activists the Treesavers have been successful in their bid to delay the city’s plan to remove over 50 ficus trees from the downtown area. They are still short
By Ron Prosky Guest Commentary
I WAS NEAR THE THIRD STREET Promenade the other day and ran into a couple of girls I know. We exchanged the conventional chit-chat
By Carla Barrett Santa Monica
After reading Bill Bauer’s (opinion piece) on changing Ocean Park Boulevard from Lincoln Boulevard to 25th street (“What’s happening on Bauer’s radar,
By Henry Rosenfeld
There was an “only in Santa Monica” moment I witnessed Sunday night at the performance of our local (free, wonderful) symphony at the Civic Center. At the