by altha-admin | Mar 31, 2012 | Articles
Pensions have created more problems than they were originally slated to solve. If public sector work is so unappealing, then perhaps municipal governments should have offered higher pay instead of promising unsustainable payouts. It's bad enough that in some...
by altha-admin | Mar 31, 2012 | Articles
Mr. Boyarsky is quite a cheer leader of the Los Angeles Unified Academic Decathlon program. I admire that school districts as troubled as Los Angeles Unified can muster enough enthusiasm for a program that engages brilliant and motivated students. Yet as school...
by altha-admin | Mar 31, 2012 | Articles
Paul Silva's imaginative piece suggests a wide ranging number of options for dealing with the pecuniary, punitive, and perverted problems that currently pester the Beach City communities. Beyond the "modest proposals" which would have...
by altha-admin | Mar 31, 2012 | Articles
“The Beach Reporter” recently reported that local teens from the Manhattan Beach Mayor’s Youth Council explored the idiosyncrasies and complexities of “what makes a good health care system?” As part of their investigation, students visited Harbor-General UCLA, under...
by altha-admin | Mar 31, 2012 | Articles
Paul Conrad was a liberal mouth piece who played fast and loose with the facts while trumpeting his open disdain for conservative causes. No city should be the platform for the irreverent and unrepentant pundit. Nevertheless, Santa Monica provided a plot of land for...