Image: Instagram/Vote4Oscar Tonight, the City Council will hear an item in “Councilmember Discussion Items” introduced by Oscar de la Torre that will likely cause extended public comment about the scandal that has been raging over anti-semitic remarks allegedly made by…
After a mammoth 14 year public process that was marred by an aggressive campaign (that sometimes broke the law) funded by the rival Huntley, the public process for the new Miramar Hotel ended with approval of its plan by the…
Santa Monica Next is a party of a 501c(3) and as such cannot make candidate endorsements. However, we can weigh in on ballot measures and have already urged voters to vote Yes on QS, the SMMUSD School Bond, and Yes…
Last Monday evening, the night before the City Council meeting, the incumbent Safer Santa Monica Slate was hosted by Northeast Neighbors, one of Santa Monica’s officially recognized Neighborhood Associations for a virtual meet and greet on zoom. Northeast Neighbors is…
If you’re not part of a political group or involved with your neighborhood association (or even if you are in your neighborhood association but happen to live in Ocean Park), you probably have not had a chance to directly ask…
At this week’s City Council meeting, the Council held a “study session” with the city staff on how best to spend the money that could become available should Measure K and Measure PSK be passed by voters later this year.…
The Santa Monica Airport Conversion planning and outreach announced earlier today that it will be extending the time for people to take and complete its most recent survey. You can access the survey via the project engagement website at www.SMACproject.com or directly…
Santa Monica Next, like many media outlets, has long-assumed that Santa Monica will host the beach volleyball tournament in the 2028 Olympics. However, the city’s plans for 2028 seem uncertain as the Council balked at a proposal (City Council Agenda,…
Santa Monica Next is a party of a 501c(3) and as such cannot make candidate endorsements. However, we can weigh in on ballot measures and have already urged voters to vote Yes on QS, the SMMUSD School Bond, and Yes…
In a follow-up to yesterday’s story, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District released a statement on the error made by the L.A. County Clerk on the mail-in ballots sent to all voters in Santa Monica and Malibu. The County Clerk’s…
Update, Friday, October 11 – An earlier version of this story stated that the Assessor failed to correctly create the tax bill for Santa Monica. The Assessor’s office does not do billing, it assesses value of property. We regret this…
The Los Angeles County Clerk has made an error on the ballots mailed to voters in Santa Monica and Malibu. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District placed a pair of bond measures on the ballot, one for residents in Santa…
As part of a 501c(3) public charity, Santa Monica Next cannot endorse candidates for city office, but it can endorse ballot measures. We have previously urged voters to vote Yes on QS. Measure K would place an additional 8% tax…
Two of Santa Monica’s news outlets are on the record endorsing candidate slates in this year’s City Council elections. Unsurprisingly, the progressive Westside Voice has endorsed the progressive “United Democratic Slate” while Santa Monica Observer endorsed the “Safer Santa Monica”…
After the first financial disclosure forms in the City Council race were submitted, it was clear that yet again the bulk of the campaign spending would come from Political Action Committees. Natalya Zernitskaya’s campaign has raised the most money of…
