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The calming effect of compost
<i>Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks from the canals of Venice who are on a mission to educate...
Read moreGetting revved up for the Grand Prix
Coming next month, April 16 through 19, the 36th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach takes to its street...
Read moreTime for resistance
Over the past few months, I’ve heard from many Americans who feel they’ve lost the power to be heard by...
Read moreThe numbers game
Just how many homeless are in Santa Monica? Determining the actual number of individuals is difficult. A 1990 RAND study...
Read moreQ-Line responses
This past week, Q-line asked: City Councilman Bobby Shriver has recently said he is mulling a run for state attorney...
Read moreStimulating the economy one surgery at a time
I was half-reading a book and half-watching TV the other day, when I thought I heard someone on TV advertising...
Read moreWe can all help make the country healthier
Obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are all health problems on the rise. They are also conditions that can be minimized...
Read moreA fuel good movie
I’ll be honest, this hasn’t been such a great week. Then again, it wasn’t so great for Bernie Madoff, who’s...
Read moreIs Congress up to the task before it?
I arrived in Congress in 1965, just as President Lyndon Johnson’s transformation of the U.S. government was getting under way....
Read moreAlaska’s Camelot crumbles
America was shocked and saddened last week when Star magazine reported that the eldest daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin...
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