Welcome to What’s Next, Episode 5 featuring SM Spoke’s Cynthia Rose. Cynthia has been involved in mobility, street safety and environmental politics in Santa Monica for decades and we’re happy to have her join us as part of our coverage…
Alas, one of Santa Monica’s most important and most-under heralded activists, Abby Arnold is leaving Santa Monica after most of her adult life, almost 40 years. Her kids have made lives in Sonoma, and Arnold is planning on joining then…
By the time you read this, What’s Next Episode 4 with Abby Arnold will likely already be online; but since May is Bike Month; we’re rushing our next podcast to be recorded on Wednesday and be live by the end…
At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the Council voted on new rules to make it easier to hold block parties and to plan up to four open streets events (COAST) per year. To fast forward to the portion of the meeting…
This should have been a slam dunk. It should have been a night to celebrate one of the things that makes Santa Monica great: its commitment to inclusion. But after several councilmembers questioned an ordinance that will require gender neutral…
“Queremos trabajar, no queremos lotería,” vendors chanted as City Hall remained silent. Three dozen street vendors and a handful of advocates rallied in front of and inside City Hall yesterday, April 24 to demand better treatment and access for vendors…
The following is a press release from the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District. In response to the alarming findings of the CDC Youth Behavioral Risk Survey The award winning ONE ON CAMPUS program of the 501(c) 3 nonprofit ONE…
Early this morning when I met my running group at Ocean and Arizona Avenues, our usual parking and meeting area was noticeably changed. Ocean Ave was covered in new, smooth, blacktop and the road markings were mostly gone with spray…
Yesterday, a coalition of street vendors met at City Hall to deliver their thoughts on a series of proposed changes the city has submitted for public comment to the city’s street vending ordinance. Interested parties have until Friday, April 21,…
On March 31, the City of Santa Monica proposed a set of new rules for street vendors in Palisades Park and the Santa Monica Pier. The new rules propose a lottery system for eleven permitted spaces in Palisades Park as…
Disclosure: Juan Matute, Jason Mastbaum and Jason Islas have all written for Santa Monica Next and serve both officially and unofficially as advisors. Last year, the Brighter Future PAC experienced setbacks in its first attempt to change the makeup of…
For the third episode of the What’s Next podcast, Damien Newton interviews Rick Cole, the former city manager for the City of Santa Monica. Cole has also served as City Manager in. handful of other Southern California Cities and is…
It’s been just over a month since the last “Pulse Poll” was conducted and released by the anti-union dark money organization “Eyes on 11.” This newest poll shows “residents” doubted that a new city department focused on homelessness would address…
Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality is playing tonight through Thursday at Laemmle Theatre in Santa Monica (Tickets). Tonight’s showing features a Q and A with the writer/producer/director of the movie, Colin Gray and other members of the production team.…
At their Tuesday meeting, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to create and fill a new commission. The Anti-Housing Commission was created to gather input from the community on reasons, both legal and otherwise, that the city could use…
