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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In Wake of Recent Spate of Fatal Crashes, City Council to Look at Street Safety Strategies

The Santa Monica City Council will look at traffic safety tonight, just more than a month after a particularly shocking streak of traffic-related deaths...

Bill Affirming That Cities Can Require Affordable Housing Advances in CA

A bill that reaffirms the ability of local cities to require developers to include affordable rental units in new projects was passed by the...

City Council Approves Lincoln Improvement Plan Amid Concerns It Doesn’t Go Far Enough

The Santa Monica City Council passed the first stage of a plan to make Lincoln Boulevard safer, but not everyone was satisfied that it...

Is Santa Monica Going to Get a Second Trader Joe’s?

Rumors are flying on social media that Santa Monica may get a second Trader Joe’s. Posts on the social media site NextDoor suggested that the...

Looking to Art to Improve Santa Monica’s Wellbeing

About one in five Santa Monica residents worry about paying rent or their mortgage. Only 56 percent of people in Santa Monica feel they...

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Assembly Transportation Committee Whittles Away at Safe Street Bills

Complete Streets Senator Scott Wiener was clearly disappointed, but he...

Santa Monica Next Will Return on Monday

Have a safe and happy 4th. See you then.

Meet the YMCA Youth Basketball Player of the Year, Mia Kondratyeva

Photo by Robert Clark This past week, during the halftime...
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