Car Culture Perpetuates Its Own Misery, Enough Scapegoating Bicycling
I'm accustomed to seeing the Santa Monica Daily Press littered with largely petty and baseless characterizations of bicycling as some plot to ruin the...
We’ll Be Fine
There is little doubt that the Expo station adjacent Hines mixed use project proposal (at the site of the long shuttered Papermate factory), which...
Twilight Series To Be Scaled Back, & Thoughts On The Relativity of Public Safety Concern
The Santa Monica city council voted to scale back the Twilight Concert series in 2014, due to potential risk factors to public safety outlined by...
Bounded Rationalities & The Local Discourse
For my first post of the New Year, I’d like to talk about the concept of bounded rationality, a phrase introduced to me recently...
State of Expo Phase II Bikeway Corridor, & the Biggest Remaining Concerns
This past Sunday members of the Expo Bicycle Advisory Committee (Expo BAC, of which I am a member), and a few members of Santa...
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SMC Wind Ensemble Presents “Instant Concert” June 8
The following is a press release from SMC:The Santa Monica...
Villaraigosa Pivots to Slamming High Gas Prices in Bid to Break Out of Gubernatorial Pack
During his time as Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa...
OPA Update 5/29/25: OPA Membership Drive, City Hires Oliver Chi as City Manager, History of Areal on Main St. & Things To Do This...
OPA Membership Drive: If you enjoy this newsletter and all the...