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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PICTURES: Expo Rolls into Downtown Santa Monica Station
Last week, we reported that Metro was testing Expo trains between Centinela and as far west as 17th Street. Today, Expo hit another milestone...
VIDEO: Playing with Santa Monica’s Future with James Rojas
https://youtu.be/4avsR0YIAOkTo plan for the future of our city, we must first rediscover our personal pasts. That is the philosophy underlying the "Place It!" workshops,...
Tech Tuesday: Real Office Centers
Santa Monica is at the center of a tech revolution. Hundreds of startups are based in the city, part of the Westside of L.A....
Coming Up: Help Plan a New Playground, Americana at the Pier, and Soak Your Boss for Charity
It's Monday again and what better time to start planning the week ahead. This week, city officials want your input on Santa Monica's second...
Passenger Trains Are Once Again Rolling Through Santa Monica
Today, in Santa Monica, Metro began testing Expo Line trains running under their own power, though we will have to wait until next week...
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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...

