If small business owners decided to stop paying our fair share of taxes, we’d be sent to jail. Big business tax dodgers want Congress to reward them with a tax holiday.
As the long season of darkness sweeps over the country, it’s a natural time to think about lighting — and how dependent we are on electricity during this dim time of year.
Since 2005, our government has prevented the commercial slaughter of horses in the United States by refusing to fund personnel that would inspect the horse meat.
Although the sight of hundreds of balloons being released into the air often creates a poignant moment, this fleeting point in time can often lead to a disastrous result on marine life.
With the start of the holidays, young people face added danger in this special season otherwise known for celebration and good cheer. The hooligan? Often it’s alcohol.
This Tuesday night, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education is going to make an important decision. On their agenda is a policy that has come to be known as “districtwide fundraising.
Falling leaves, pumpkins, a cornucopia and turkeys: Whether we are conscious of it or not, some of the most prevalent Thanksgiving symbols come from nature.
Up here in the Palisades I am known as the turkey lady. That’s because this will be the fourth year in a row that there will be beautiful live turkeys strolling around my front yard over the holiday season.
Thanksgiving is my kind of holiday. Apart from the “thanks” part, the primary purpose of this celebration is eating. That is the one thing I do quite well.
As an African American and an environmentalist, I went along for a long while with the idea that race and class are irrelevant to the cause of environmental protection.
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll had bad news for Congress, whose support is down to single digits. But it had even worse news for the Republic.
After many weeks, Occupy Wall Street and its kindred demonstrations around the country are still a source of headline controversy — even aside from the police manhandling of protesters.
