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.
Exclusive articles:
Santa Monica Public Meetings: A How-To Guide
In a day and age when most people are used to making important decisions in group email threads or in virtual meetings with colleagues...
Coming Up: Santa Monica’s Kidical Mass, Retreat on Affordable Housing, and the Chamber Honors Women Leaders
Coming up in Santa Monica, we have a special Valentine's Day Kidical Mass bike ride, a retreat on affordable housing hosted by the Housing...
Throwback Thursday: That Time When Santa Monica Made… Missiles?
To hear people talk about Santa Monica in the "good old days" -- of course, when those days specifically were always depends on who...
City Wants Young Santa Monicans to Help Plan Bergamot Station’s Future
The City Council Tuesday night will set the guidelines for an advisory committee that will help shape the future of Bergamot Station Arts Center...
Will Santa Monica Begin Regulating Rideshare Companies?
Santa Monica could move to regulate rideshare companies operating within the city's borders later this, according to a report by the Santa Monica Daily...
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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...

