Damien welcomes back Maya, Emery and Willa for our second “Who’s Next” podcast. The three guests are all seniors at Santa Monica High School and leaders of the environmental group Team Marine. On Wednesday, SMMUSD celebrated becoming a school district…
This post was informed by the Take the Friendly Road Newsletter produced by Santa Monica Department of Transportation. May is Bike Month, and the city has a series of fun and educational events that are free an open to the…
The following article was submitted by Santa Monica Community College. The Santa Monica College Music Department will present the SMC Symphony Orchestra and the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Animation Department in a performance of “Pictures at an Exhibition,” by Modest Mussorgsky. The concert will be held on Sunday, May 12, at 4…
The City of Santa Monica has launched an e-bike voucher program to allow 90 low and moderate families residing in the city to purchase an e-bike. Last year, the city announced it was working on a program similar to the…
Earlier this morning, UNITE HERE Local 11 announced that the last four hotels that were under strike in Santa Monica have reached a settlement. The UNITE HERE Local 11 hotel strike is over in Santa Monica. Hampton Inn Santa Monica,…
Between the fall of 2022 and May of last year, there was constant chatter about the “builder’s remedy” and the sixteen projects that were submitted to the city during a brief time when the state suspended the city’s zoning code.…
The Santa Monica Big Blue Bus announced changes to nine routes along its service, mostly with increased hours, starting on Sunday, May 5. Three other lines, E7, 42 and 44, will cease service. “We’re making service improvements on nine routes…
Over the weekend, environmental activist Carter Rubin shot a video showing the “small mighty” bike path that will provide a safe connection between the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway (MANGo) and the Expo Bike path. Watch the video on Twitter/X or below:…
Yesterday, a majority of the Santa Monica City Council joined roughly four dozen activists at a political rally organized by the Santa Monica Coalition to demand that LA County end its needle exchange program in Santa Monica public parks. The…
The American Planning Association announced the winners of the 11th Annual Awards for Excellence in Sustainability at the 2024 National Planning Conference in Minneapolis. The City of Santa Monica took home the “Quality of Life” award for the Active Aging…
Last week, strikes resumed at a pair of Santa Monica hotels as Southern California elected leaders wrote the new Craig Smith, the Chief Executive Officer Aimbridge Hospitality which operates several hotels in Southern California including the Hampton Inn and Suites…
On Tuesday, the Santa Monica City Council approved a design concept for a project that would bring 120 affordable apartments, 50 of which would include supportive services, at a city owned project at 1318 4th Street where a parking lot…
This story includes reporting initially from a legislative update at Streetsblog California that includes more on E-bike Classifications and Batteries. Read the rest of the report here. This story is an edited copy of a legislative update at Streetsblog California…
Last night, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved the contract for the First/Last Mile Plan for Bergamot Station (Agenda, Item 5A; Video, 2:59). After a decade-long public process the final hurdle for the project proved more difficult than expected…
There’s little public discussion of Santa Monica hosting its own Open Streets event again, the last Santa Monica Coast was years before the pandemic; but CicLAvia returns to the Westside and Santa Monica’s backyard later this month. For the uninitiated,…
