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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Throwback Thursday: Peace, Influenza, and Car Parades
"War is over -- Now for business as usual" proclaimed the headline on The Evening Outlook from November 11, 1918. This month, 97 years...
Long-Time SMRR Activist Judy Abdo Ousted from Steering Committee
Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the single most influential political organization in town, ousted one of its original activists -- and a member of...
Coming Up: Meet-and-Greet City Manager Rick Cole, Hack the Beach Happy Hour, Breeze Launch Party, and More
The holiday season is just around the corner, but there’s a lot coming up between now and then. This week, the Urban Land Institute...
Santa Monica Announces Date for Full Breeze Bike Share Launch
Santa Monica has officially announced November 12 as the day for Breeze Bike Share’s full roll out, which will make it the first public...
Coming Up: Support Affordable Housing, MOW Monster Bash, “Ghostbusters” on the Beach, and Celebrate Día de los Muertos
Halloween’s around the corner and there are plenty of ways to celebrate and to support a couple of great causes this week.Show your support...
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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...

