Every week, Next reprints (at least) one article from the City Manager’s Weekly Update. HHS, RAD, and our the Juneteenth committee members (pictured below) would love to see everyone at Santa Monica’s Juneteenth weekend celebration, a vibrant series of community-…
As we continue our series where we republish the answers given to the Santa Monica Dem. Club candidate questionaires, today we keep it simple. The first question given to candidates for the Santa Monica College Board is simply, “What qualifications…
This week, the Santa Monica Democratic Club published the responses to their questionnaires for all four city elections: City Council. School Board, College Board, and Rent Control Board. In a random order determined by ChatGPT, here are the answers from…
A proposed ballot initiative that would have allowed housing on part of the future Santa Monica Airport site will not appear on the November 2026 ballot after organizers failed to gather enough signatures before the deadline. Supporters of the measure…
This week, the Santa Monica Democratic Club published the responses to their questionnaires for all four city elections: City Council. School Board, College Board, and Rent Control Board. In a random order determined by ChatGPT, here are the answers from…
The Santa Monica City Council voted this week to move forward with plans for a city-sponsored float in the 2027 Tournament of Roses Parade, approving a budget of up to $650,000 and launching a fundraising campaign intended to offset much…
A coalition of 28 California legislators is calling on Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders to protect hundreds of millions of dollars in transit funding that they say is threatened by both proposed changes to the state’s Cap-and-Trade program and…
The Santa Monica City Council voted Tuesday night to accept more than $10.5 million in state and county grants to advance planning and development of the future Great Park at the site of the Santa Monica Airport. The funding includes…
Image: The “new map” on the city’s website showing the four neighborhood organizations taking part in the city’s grant program. Last month, the City of Santa Monica changed its website for community involvement by reducing the number of recognized neighborhood…
All photos: Joe Linton Santa Monica is installing concrete-curb-protected bike lanes on two well-biked east-west streets: Colorado Avenue and Broadway. Streetsblog was in the area last weekend and rode the Colorado Avenue facility, which appears complete. The one-way westbound Colorado bikeway…
(Update, 6/15/26: The signature gathering campaign mentioned below is for the 2028 ballot.) Earlier this week, Santa Monica Next reported that the measure that would allow housing to be built on the land that is currently the Santa Monica Airport.…
“Well, the good news is, we’ll have plenty of chances to educate,” sighed one bicycle safety advocate to me after a series of well-intentioned but harmful e-bike legislation moved in the Assembly Transportation Committee last April. But while all sorts…
“No better day to ride the D (train) than election day,” posted Tom Steyer Tuesday morning at 11:12 a.m. on X. The problem isn’t that Steyer talked about transit on election day. The problem is that he waited until election day. California voters…
With the June primary largely settled and two major local announcements arriving on the same day, the contours of Santa Monica’s November election are finally coming into focus. While some uncertainty remains around who else may enter local races, voters…
(Update: Cloverfield Commons has released a letter stating that the measure is still on. Read all about it. Original reporting below.) (Update Again: The measure is on hold until 2028 at the earliest. Signature gathering continues.) Here’s a piece of…
