At the December 12 meeting of the Santa Monica City Council, the Council voted to extend the “free parking” hours in city owned lots from 90 minutes to three hours during the last three days before Christmas to encourage more…
This weekend, unarmed transit security officers began riding on the Santa Monica’s buses and monitoring transit stops as part of the Big Blue Bus’ “Transit Safety Officer Program.” The City Council unanimously approved the program at their January 23rd meeting.…
Back in November, when a fire under the I-10 in Los Angeles caused the shutdown of a portion of the freeway; the YouTube channel Segregation by Design published a video that illustrates the destruction that the Santa Monica Freeway caused…
The Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization denied a petition to change the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s elections by creating voting districts to replace the at-large electoral system for the Board of Education. The vote was a…
Incumbents Cruise in Quiet Election Night Yesterday’s primary election saw no real surprises in the nation or California as incumbent candidates and other perceived front runners cruised out of the primary ready for one-on-one battles in the fall. You can…
UPDATE 3/5/2024: The ARB approved the building 5-0 last night with some small conditions that staff and the developer believe will easily be worked out. I see it every week during my Saturday run at the southwest corner of Ocean…
Welcome to our new podcast series, Who’s Next, where we talk to youth leaders in Santa Monica about the issues that are most important to them. With California’s primary election next Tuesday, I had a chance to talk with three…
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District publicly released a letter in response to the threat of a legal challenge against its district-wide election system. The challenge comes from the Pico Neighborhood Association, represented by Kevin Shenkman, and charges the current…
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education will hold a special board tonight meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the district office. At the meeting, the board will discuss whether or not to eliminate…
City Manager David White is scheduled to provide an update on the city’s efforts to achieve Vision Zero, that is make city streets so safe to move through that there are zero traffic related fatalities, at tomorrow night’s city council…
In a public video posted to social media, Santa Monica Vice-Mayor Lana Negrete revelealed a serious cancer diagnosis that will require chemotherapy to battle. In the video, Negrete shows courage and resolve and vows to “fucking kick this fucking cancer’s…
The City of Santa Monica will host a community solutions summit on Saturday, March 2, as the next phase in the process to create a citywide equity plan. All are invited to attend the “Community Solutions Summit: Turning Equity Priorities…
Last year, transit agencies and advocates warned that the state budget was heading towards a fiscal disaster and as the state budget cut hundreds of millions of dollars from transit operations. Advocates for safe streets were similarly alarmed that funding…
Last week on February 16, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District finalized and submitted an application to the California Energy Commission’s CALSHAPE program for a $1.61 million grant to install MERV-13 filters (temporarily) and carbon dioxide detectors at schools across…
Santa Monicans hoping to see a simple resolution to the controversy surrounding the Stanton Macdonald-Wright mural in the City Hall lobby may be disappointed by the recommendations made for the lobby at Tuesday’s meeting (Agenda, Item 11A). Instead of a…
