By Lance Simmens Former Vice President Al Gore may not have invented the internet but he sure did raise the public consciousness around what at first was characterized as global warming and now has morphed into climate change. Is climate change responsible for all of the world’s problems? No, but it is an important contributing […]
Malibu residents enjoyed having a long, personal visit with their state senator By Jane Albrecht Special to The Malibu Times This past Sunday, Aug. 27, District 24 State Senator Ben Allen came to Malibu to hike and have lunch with the area’s community members. Sam Liu, Allen’s district director, and Davis Han, his district representative, […]
By Lance Simmens The task of choosing a topic for this week’s column was not really as difficult as previous weeks, given the rather astounding spectacle of watching the former president, his chief of staff, and numerous other close confidants being booked on some 41 charges over alleged efforts to overturn the results of the […]
FROM THE LEFTBy Lance Simmens The word “unprecedented” reflects the true depth of despair evident and growing as the American public, but more specifically the voting electorate, attempts to make sense out of the profound charges and countercharges facing the two major political parties as we enter the 2024 presidential election. As we wade deeper […]
By Lance Simmens In 1989, the world witnessed the unveiling of the Iron Curtain. Two years later came the fall of the Soviet Empire. A decade later, after a very brief flirtation with democratic reforms like Perestroika and Glasnost, Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative, would rise to become president and start a journey to […]