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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Expo to Hit Another Major Milestone Next Week
Next week, the Expo Construction Authority -- which oversees construction of the Exposition Light Rail project -- is anticipating handing over the Phase II...
Competing Housing Commission Reports Offer Incomplete View of Santa Monica Affordability Crisis
In a highly unusual move, the Santa Monica Housing Commission is considering two competing reports that outline recommended strategies to tackle the city’s growing...
Coming Up: Transit Oriented L.A., City Council Looks at New TOD, Westside Urban Forum Talks Mobility, and Buy Local!
This week, we've got a major event coming up for anyone interested in the future of Los Angeles: the Urban Land Institute's "Transit Oriented...
Throwback Thursday: “Big Amusement” Comes to Ocean Park
Let’s take a trip down memory lane with the help of the Santa Monica Public Library’s digital archives to a hundred years ago this...
City Council to Consider 90-Unit Expo-Adjacent Apartment Building for Former Norm’s Site
Update: The Santa Monica City Council voted 6-to-0 (Councilmember Pam O'Connor was absent) Tuesday night to approve this project.The Santa Monica City Council will...
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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...

