How can Santa Monica grow into a city of the future, if so many of its decisions are made by and informed by an older populace? This question is becoming a louder and louder one even as the City of Santa…
Last week, I had the chance to interview Juan Matute, a transportation researcher with the UCLA Luskin Center, Santa Monica resident, and Chair of the Southern California Streets Initiative’s Board of Directors. (SCSI publishes Streetsblog Los Angeles and Santa Monica…
Just a quick note. Alert readers will note a change to the top bar with a new link. The new link points to a page full of information about ty of Santa Monica v United States of America, Federal Aviation Administration…
I know James Rojas pretty well. I first met him over six years ago, when I first moved to Los Angeles in his old office at Metro’s headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. Since then, we’ve gotten together a couple of…
We’ve spent a lot of time talking Tongva Park since our launch in August, so we thought we’d turn over the coverage of this weekend’s celebration to all of you. [View the story “Your coverage of the Tongva Park Celebration”…
While researching the Streetsblog Los Angeles story concerning the new regional push for bike share, I had a chance to talk with Santa Monica Mayor Pam O’Connor about what role Santa Monica has in the regional effort. As Gary Kavanagh…
As we approach the two month anniversary of the launch of Santa Monica Next, we wanted to take a moment to ask you, our readers, how we’re doing. We are proud of the work we’ve done bring event previews and…
I listened to the wup-wup-wup-wup of the helicopter’s flying overhead, I cursed inwardly and got up to double-check the front door was locked. Usually sirens and helicopters mean there’s a criminal on the loose, and better safe than sorry. The…
Thanks everyone who came out to our Santa Monica fundraiser at Juan and Sirinya Matute’s. We raised nearly $1,000 (in addition to the over $2000 from the KickStarter campaign) making it a successful event. Plus the view was amazing, the…
It’s billed as the largest volunteer day on the planet, bigger than Santa Monica, bigger than California, bigger even than all of America. Coastal Cleanup Day has become a world-wide volunteer event, where literally millions of pounds of waste is…
Starting on October 1, you’ll notice a new banner on the side of our website when Pocrass and De Los Reyes LLP Attorneys begin their sponsorship of Santa Monica Next. The law firm specializes in personal injury cases including crashes…
Or, you can RSVP on Facebook. If you donated more than $35 on the Santa Monica Next KickStarter, all you have to do is show up.
By design and by coincidence, it was a day of contrasts. On one hand, you have a group of roughly fifty advocates riding bicycles, many of whom are involved in local civic organizations snaking in a pattern across the outside…
Steinberg’s hasty press conference after passage of SB 743 Last night, both California’s Senate and Assembly passed SB 743, Senator Darrell Steinberg’s legislation that was basically designed to streamline the environmental review for a proposed new stadium for the Sacramento…
(This article first appeared on Streetsblog Los Angeles.) Finally, some sanity may be coming to California’s most important environmental protection law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Under current law, all projects, be they rail lines, bike plans, or new…
