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 Los Angeles” event, featuring Metro’s new CEO, Phil Washington. Also, the City Council will consider 90…
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 week when The Evening Outlook announced the deal that would lead to the development of a…
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 consider approving a 4-to-5 story mixed-use apartment building that, if approved, would add 90…
The West L.A. Veterans Administration (VA) campus is planning for a major overhaul to provide much needed supportive housing for veterans. Officials want your input in shaping the plans. Officials will hold a public meeting in the east wing of…
Join Santa Monica Next for an evening of food, drinks, and fun at our last event of the year this Friday, save money and time with Buy Local sidewalk sales this weekend, help donate to a good cause while having some…
A recent post on the Wall Street Journal noted that White House economists have been wringing their hands over local land use policies throughout the country. The problem, according to Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic…
Rejoice! This week is a short one, but there are still a couple of things you ought to put in your calendar, like Santa Monica’s shop local Saturday and Santa Monica Next’s last event of 2015. Streetfilms at Vidiots with…
Update: The Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved three locations for the city’s pilot parklet program. The three locations include the two recommended by staff and a third at Main and Hill in front of Finn McCool’s. The Santa Monica…
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comments from more community leaders. A first-hand account of a police action that ran in the Washington Post’s Opinion Page on Wednesday has raised questions in Santa Monica about race and law…
If you’re like me, you rely pretty heavily on Internet and smart-phone based real-time transit arrival information when getting around. Santa Monica’s newest public transportation option — Breeze Bike Share — has been incorporated into the real-time transportation arrival app,…
This week, get ready for Santa Monica’s transportation revolution with Climate Action Santa Monica, celebrate International Education Week at Santa Monica College, kick off SMC Public Policy Institute’s Fall Forum on the arts, and have a very merry un-birthday at…
Santa Monica is really making strides in the active transportation department these days. It’s about to launch the first public bike-share system in L.A. County and now, the city has its first protected bike lane. It’s a short, one-block stretch…
This week, meet the final four candidates for the top position at Santa Monica College, get a free ride at Breeze Bike Share’s public launch, and join BUSted! for an evening of quality storytelling by people who get around L.A.…
“War is over — Now for business as usual” proclaimed the headline on The Evening Outlook from November 11, 1918. This month, 97 years ago, Santa Monica celebrated the world’s very first Armistice Day — aka Veterans Day — to mark the…
Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the single most influential political organization in town, ousted one of its original activists — and a member of more than 40 years — from the organization’s steering committee Sunday, citing real estate development as…
