Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Healthy City Local. It is reprinted below with the author’s permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of the city. Submitting your…
Editor’s note: The following originally appeared in The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of the city. Submitting your writing does…
Note: The original version of this article was published on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. [pullquote align=left] Hey, we’ve saddled the next generation with student loan debt; why not give them some water…
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. In the last couple of posts I’ve been trying, mostly by means of rereading Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, to put anti-development politics in Santa Monica into a…
For my last post I reread parts of Mike Davis’ City of Quartz to give me some perspective on what’s going on today in Santa Monica with anti-development politics. As perceptive as Davis was, however, it was also interesting to see, in hindsight, what…
“If the slow-growth movement … has been explicitly a protest against the urbanization of suburbia, it is implicitly—in the long tradition of Los Angeles homeowner politics—a reassertion of social privilege.” —Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los…
Editor’s note: This post was originally posted on The Healthy City Local, the blog of long-time political observer and former Planning Commissioner, Frank Gruber. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. Let’s see, a few days ago I was complaining about how the…
Editor’s Note: Below is the most recent installment in a series about Santa Monica’s 2014 municipal election by long-time political observer and former City Council candidate, Frank Gruber. This post originally appeared on Gruber’s personal blog, The Healthy City Local. Going back in history,…
Editor’s Note: Below is the next installment in a series about Santa Monica’s recent municipal election by long-time political observer and former City Council candidate, Frank Gruber. This post originally appeared on his personal blog, The Healthy City Local. After my…
Editor’s note: Below is the third in a series of blog posts by former City Council Candidate and long-time political observer, Frank Gruber, taking a closer look at the November 2014 election. This post and his previous two posts were both originally posted…
Editor’s note: Below is the second in a series of blog posts by former City Council Candidate and long-time political observer, Frank Gruber, taking a closer look at the November 2014 election. This post and his first, “Back to What…
Editor’s note: Below is the first in a series of blog posts by former City Council Candidate and long-time political observer, Frank Gruber, taking a closer look at the November 2014 election. The original post, titled “Back to What I…
This story first appeared on Gruber’s personal website, The Healthy City Local. I’ve already been quoted by Jason Islas in The Lookout calling the initiative that the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has filed to prevent the Santa Monica City Council from closing Santa…
(Unless someone emails me and wants to write on this project, this will conclude our first Santa Monica Next Salon on the topic of “why you live in Santa Monica.” Previously, Sirinya Matute wrote on why she stays in Santa…
(In advance of tonight’s meeting by Airport2Park, I thought it would be a good time to re-post this blog by Frank Gruber reminding people that the goal of Airport2Park has little to do with airplane crashes and a lot to…
