At the Tuesday, July 9, meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the Supes are widely expected to move a measure to the fall ballot designed to reform and improve how the Supervisors works. The highlight of the…
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This Pulse Poll Is WILD Even by the admittedly low standards of the Pulse Polls, push polls designed to shape public policy by asking a conservative group of self-identified residents loaded questions, this month’s edition has produced questionable results. The…
Santa Monica’s Minimum and Living Wages Go Up Every Year on July 1 Happy fiscal New Year Santa Monica. Every year on July 1, the minimum and living wages in the City of Santa Monica increase thanks to an ordinance…
In February, the electronic bike counter located at Main Street just south of where it intersects with Colorado Avenue, stopped working; but as first noted by Cynthia Rose of Santa Monica Spoke the bike counter is back up and running.…
Last night the Santa Monica Democratic Club held their endorsement meeting for the fall election. For the City Council, the club had to choose between six candidates that took part in their endorsement process, and overwhelmingly settled on: Dan Hall,…
Last night, by a 4-3 vote, the City Council voted against placing a measure on the fall ballot that would have generated $7 million annually by increasing the tax on privately owned parking lots. The proposed 8% increase would have…
In a rare show of solidarity, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously at its Tuesday, June 25 meeting to direct city staff to prepare a formal resolution to express its disapproval of banners on an unrented storefront on the…
This week’s episode of Who’s Next features an interview with Dr. Paul Drew, familiar to Santa Monia Next readers as the editor/publisher of The Swish, the YMCA’s youth basketball newsletter. Every issue, Drew profiles some of the people (players, coaches,…
When I first approached my Board of Directors about bringing back Santa Monica Next and helming it as editor in a part-time capacity, I thought most of my time was going to be writing about transit services, bike and pedestrian…
At tomorrow night’s meeting of the Santa Monica City Council, a motion will be presented by Mayor Phil Brock, Vice-Mayor Lana Negrete and Councilmember Gleam Davis directing city staff to draft a motion expressing their disapproval of the current and…
At their annual members convention over the weekend, Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR) endorsed what is becoming a familiar group of four candidates: Ellis Raskin, Barry Snell, Dan Hall, and Natalya Zernitskaya. SMRR was formed in the 1970’s with…
Last month, the City Council passed a budget that cut millions of dollars proposed for the maintenance of city owned properties and streets in favor of funding two new police officer positions. Councilmember Jesse Zwick is asking the City Council…
In 2022, Santa Monica residents, especially those in were shocked when the voter-approved formula for setting rent increases in those units rose to 6.4%, the highest increase in Santa Monica in over four decades. They responded by passing Measure RC which…
The third iteration of the “Santa Monica Is Not Safe” signs on the unrented property on the Promenade owned by John Alle is certainly the most whimsical, although it still maligns City Manager David White with a charge that not…
