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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FlyAway Buses Coming to Santa Monica
Traveling between LAX and Santa Monica without a car is about to get a whole lot easier. LAX officials announced last week that starting...
How Would You Design It Today?: Bob’s Market
Bob's Market is a local neighborhood grocery store in the heart of Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood. It sits at the corner of 17th...
Events: Vote Local, City Council and Big Blue Bus Service Changes
Welcome to Monday. We have got a busy week ahead of us, including our first Vote Local event, a City Council meeting with at...
Renting in Santa Monica Part One: The Rent’s Too Damn High
It is no secret to anyone who has considered moving to Santa Monica that finding a place to live here is not cheap.A person...
How Would You Design It Today?
Much noise has been made around urban planning in Santa Monica in recent months. A growing regional population, a burgeoning public transit system, increasing demand...
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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...

