Jason Islas
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Jason Islas is the editor of Santa Monica Next and the director of the Vote Local Campaign. Before joining Next in May 2014, Jason had covered land use, transit, politics and breaking news for The Lookout, the city’s oldest news website, since February 2011.
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Santa Monica Officials Extend Community Process for Downtown Plan
City officials announced Tuesday that the community process for Santa Monica's Downtown Community Plan, which will guide the future of the city's thriving core...
Portion of Santa Monica Airport Land Cleared for Park Expansion
Santa Monica could see an addition of new park space now that a six-acre lot at the southeast corner of the municipal airport has...
Santa Monica Spoke’s Cynthia Rose Honored by Alliance for Biking & Walking
Local safe-streets advocate, Cynthia Rose, took home the Alliance for Biking & Walking Susie Stephens Joyful Enthusiasm Award at the National Bike Summit in...
Santa Monica’s First Open Streets Festival Set for June 5
Santa Monica is preparing for its first open streets event, during which a 1.7 mile route along Ocean Avenue, Main Street, and Colorado Avenue...
Coming Up: Streetsie Celebration, Women Who Shape Santa Monica, Expo Pre-Revenue Testing
Coming up this week, things are getting real on Expo line phase 2, we are throwing a party to celebrate our own local shared...
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Transit Advocates Open Second Front in Fight to Reverse Newsom’s CARB Climate Funding Cuts
California transit, housing, and environmental advocates are escalating their...
Kool Happenings: The Not-So-Secret Police and Clockwork Orange for Musk and Kennedy
Historian and futurist, Nils Gilman, wrote a piece earlier...
‘Flock Off’: Mass Surveillance Surge Jeopardizes Lifesaving Crash Reduction Strategy
Give them liberty … and give us death.A forthcoming...
OPA Update 7/30/26: Unpermitted Turf @ Ocean Park School, Festival of Chariots Parade, & Other Things To Do This Weekend
MAIN STREET WILL BE CLOSED TO VEHICLES SUNDAY AM...

