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By Eric C. Shafer On a February Sunday several years ago I was traveling with a group of U.S. Lutherans ...

Our City is blessed with an array of transportation options, perhaps the envy of any small city in this state ...

Craig Miller, Andrew Nasatir and Ana Valle-Lopez have announced plans to float a ballot initiative. The “City Attorney Accountability Act” ...

Editor's note: Last week's SMa.r.t. column discussed urban and architectural design. This week's column  discusses process, zoning and conclusions as ...

This is the first of two columns on urban planning and architectural design, both subjects that have not been addressed ...

Our last two SMa.r.t. columns focused on the advantages of low-rise, 2- to 4-story buildings and how our typical low-rise ...

I, along with at least 1,000 other aspiring comedy writers, unfortunately did NOT get to write for the remarkably popular ...

TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS EVE. I really should write something for the season, shouldn't I? Something reflective and reverent, or at ...

It's Christmas time and for me that means a trip to Mexico where I get to hang poolside, and do ...

The mistakes made by policy makers concerning the Expo Light Rail extension to Santa Monica — the bad planning, poor ...