One of the cruelest ironies in California’s never-ending budget crisis is how the public school system has been brought to its knees while funding for illegal alien students, provided by citizen taxpayers, becomes ever more generous.
As the nation recently passed the six month anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, which launched the worst oil spill in U.
For all the poll swings, breathless analysis, and sheer uncertainty in the lead-up to Nov. 2, there is one thing you can say for certain about these elections: they did nothing to end congressional polarization.
How much are you willing to pay for access to clean air and drinking water? What’s a fair price to keep toxic chemicals out of the food supply, to insure the future of ocean and freshwater fish stocks, to keep public parks open, and to stem the melting of the polar ice caps so our coastal cities rem
With so much attention being paid to the high-profile divorce of the McCourts and what it may do to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ franchise, I felt it appropriate to share some of my expertise in the area of family law and how divorce can impact a company.
Santa Monica is a diverse community with a commitment to caring for the environment, providing excellent public schools, and ensuring renters’ rights.
The next three weeks may be the most important weeks for the future of our local public schools for years to come. On Tuesday, Nov. 2, Santa Monica voters will have the opportunity to protect our schools from the devastating effects of the state of California’s massive cuts to education funding, by
As individuals, Americans are generous, often donating in response to crises abroad even while struggling to make ends meet at home. We tend to assume that our government’s foreign aid is similarly altruistic.
Grilling hot dogs, homemade ice cream sandwiches and the snap-crackling sounds of barbecuing corn on the cob. The organizers of the 2010 Abbott Kinney Festival were ignited this past weekend as the mercury rose enough to finally deliver Santa Monica its first summer day of 2010.
Americans have grown suspicious of tap water quality, yet it’s doubtful many could name a single contaminant they imagine spewing from Santa Monica faucets.
When those behind Tucson’s successful Raza/ethnic studies program visit Santa Monica this Friday at the Pico Youth & Family Center as part of a Southern California tour, the legacy of Chicano studies in Santa Monica will come more clearly into the light.
It’s hard to come up with a looming environmental problem not ultimately rooted in human population expansion, be it a local issue like traffic congestion, litter and air and drinking water pollution or more global concerns like ocean fish depletion, deforestation, species extinction and global clim
