May 12, 2025

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Category: Opinion


Congress Must Temper Trump’s California Vendetta

March 15, 2018

March 15, 2018

By Tom Elias             This has all the symptoms of a classical political vendetta: At...

Center Stage: On The Beach With Film’s Independent Spirit Awards

March 12, 2018

March 12, 2018

By Beverly Cohn What threatened to be a rainy, windy day turned out to be quite the opposite as the...

Don’t Bet On Single-Payer Arriving Soon

March 12, 2018

March 12, 2018

By Tom Elias   There is loud talk in the Legislature and anywhere California Democrats meet in large numbers about...

SMa.r.t.-ARB (All Ready to Build?)

March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018

By Bob Taylor Santa Monica City’s Architectural Review Board (ARB), established in 1974, acts “to preserve existing areas of natural...

GOP Starts to Wise Up; Will Dems Follow?

March 8, 2018

March 8, 2018

By Tom Elias             California’s top two primary system is living up to its “jungle...

Good Taste: Finding the Right Kind of Referrals

March 6, 2018

March 6, 2018

By Barbara Bishop  My husband and I sold our house in December. In the interim, until we decide where we...

Center Stage: “The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk”

March 6, 2018

March 6, 2018

By Beverly Cohn Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic have sent a theatrical gift across the pond presenting us with the...

Intimacy: the High of all Highs

March 5, 2018

March 5, 2018

By Guy Camilleri The need to connect intimately to another human being is essential to being human. And the use...

Non-Citizens Will Start Voting Soon

March 5, 2018

March 5, 2018

By Tom Elias             President Trump has griped for years – without any proof –...

SMa.r.t.-Big Versus Small

March 2, 2018

March 2, 2018

By Mario Fonda-Bonardi The story of the small taking down the big is an old one we are all familiar...