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Marathon a bad idea
The 2010 Los Angeles Marathon Committee would like next year’s event to run though Santa Monica. According to their Web...
Read moreRemembering Carol
When his wife Joy died in 1960, C.S. Lewis’ life crumbled. “If my house has collapsed at one blow,” the...
Read moreQ-Line answers: Three decades later
This past week, Q-line asked: Santa Monica’s rent control law, first passed by voters April 10, 1979, has been in...
Read moreRemaking Iraq in our image
Some of the criticism George W. Bush and his administration received when they began the war against Iraq was that...
Read moreCrowded California is running out of water
As California heads into high summer, those sweltering weeks that burn like a fever from mid-July well into September, there...
Read moreSummer is earplug season
Hall of Fame catcher (and amateur philosopher) Yogi Berra, once complained about a neighborhood restaurant, “It’s gotten so crowded lately...
Read moreInfamous last words
Over the past few weeks the media has bemoaned the loss of Farah Fawcett’s hair, Ed McMahon’s laugh, Billy Mays’...
Read moreCity Hall does its part to help the homeless
For most residents of Santa Monica, news that the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against City Hall, claiming...
Read moreSabotaging job searches?
Have you sent out numerous resumes only to hear nothing back? Despite the hours you are putting in to your...
Read moreThe anesthesia of hope
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a two-part series. In my previous column I conservatively circumscribed about the...
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