Dear EarthTalk: How is it that global warming could cause an increase in health problems and disease epidemics? Do we have any evidence that it is already happening?
— Jim Merrill,
SM PIER — Former Santa Monica Mayor, Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) introduced a bill on Friday that would end whale shows in California.
The proposed bill, which Bloom unveiled at
CITYWIDE — On Sunday, Rick Kissler and his buddy John Chin will drive from Santa Monica out to Dodger Stadium, then turn around and run home.
For the past five years,
EXPOSITION BLVD — I think I've seen this one before.
IMAX, a film projection format company known for its larger-than-life nature films, is leaving the city by the sea
SMO — Pilots and aviation workers are skeptical of the Airport Commission's recent recommendation to effectively starve out pilots at the Santa Monica Airport.
Last month, the commission voted
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — Santa Monica has become the first city in Southern California to officially recognize nail salons that create safer environments for their workers, owners and customers by using less
Editor:
I agree that density favors alternative transportation, and that development near the light rail reduces the traffic increase ("Favoring density isn't being dense," Your Column
Expo Light Rail Line
Note the following activities:
1. Colorado Avenue between Fourth and 18th streets: Street closures in the east and westbound directions. Expect westbound and eastbound lane closures
DOWNTOWN — A Santa Monica-based technology company specializing in digital currency has outgrown the nursery.
GoCoin, a payment processing site like Paypal that deals exclusively in Bitcoins and Litecoins, recently took
On-street parking near the main post office on Seventh Street has been re-configured — again.
Concerned about collisions involving cars and pedestrians, city officials last week ripped out perpendicular parking spaces,
