CITY HALL — The Rent Control Board will wait until the day before its drop dead date to decide whether or not to stand in the way of a development that
CITY HALL — The Rent Control Board is sure that it wants to raise registration fees on rent-controlled apartments to close its yawning budget gap, but how much and who should
THIRD STREET PROMENADE — Prepared food vendors may have to toe a finer line if new rules at the Farmers' Market come into effect that would require them to pay
MID CITY — Patient care workers at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center will join thousands of others at UC hospitals across the state in a two-day strike to protest what they
SMMUSD HDQTRS — A proposed shift in the progression of math classes at the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District could eliminate the highest level course taught in the district, which some
Are food companies to blame for the rise in obesity in America by creating specially formulated junk food that is addictive? According to the Feb. 20 article in the New
CALABASAS, Calif. — Los Angeles County authorities have released the names of two people who were killed in a collision with another plane that ended with one aircraft crashing and the
CITY HALL — The Rent Control Board will discuss a proposal Thursday to close a half-million dollar gap in its budget by raising registration fees and, for the first time, forcing
CITY HALL — City officials extended the deadline on a bid that could replace the Pico Youth & Family Center as a city grantee after nonprofits complained that there was too
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is making inroads with local universities to try to attract young teachers fresh out of school to fill difficult subject areas and potentially
CITYWIDE — Santa Monica is no stranger to construction — new apartments and office buildings shrouded in tarp and scaffolding sprout like mushrooms in the sea mist.
Lately, however, Santa Monicans have
Dear EarthTalk: What is the "Monsanto Protection Act" and why are environmentalists so upset about it?
— Rita Redstone, Milwaukee, Wisc.
The so-called Monsanto Protection Act is actually a
