Press releases and official announcements from Santa Monica.
Photo: Arroyo Fest 2023, by Joe Linton/Streetsblog This week, Metro Board committees approved a handful of noteworthy items. These approvals are preliminary and will require final approval at the full board meeting on December 4. Dodgers Stadium Gondola In a…
Last month, news broke that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) was ending the state’s E-Bike Incentive Project to help people of lower and middle income afford e-bikes. CARB hasn’t made an official announcement yet, the official webpage has gone dark and CARB’s…
The California Bicycle Summit will be held on Thursday and Friday, April 23–24, 2026, in Sacramento at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria. If you’d like to participate by planning one of the sessions, the deadline to submit your idea has been…
Proposition 50 passed in California on Tuesday with a decisive margin—roughly 4,971,914 “Yes” votes vs. 2,826,189 “No” votes, out of about 7,809,756 total votes counted as of the most recent tally. Some prognosticators were predicting a close contest. But given…
(Update, 11/7: CARB requested some corrections to our timeline to when the authorization for the program came from the legislature and the amount that could be requested in the first window. After confirming the accuracy of their requests, the article…
The public square is the lifeblood of protest movements—a physical stage where democracy becomes visible. Streets, plazas, parks, and sidewalks give people a place to gather, speak, and be seen, transforming individual frustration into collective action. Last weekend marked the second No…
Sunday, tens of thousands of Angelenos participated in CicLAvia’s Heart of L.A. open streets event. The 7.5-mile route opened streets through Boyle Heights, Chinatown, MacArthur Park, Little Tokyo, and Downtown L.A. With cars temporarily removed, streets filled with people of…
With just hours left to sign or veto yesterday, Governor Newsom signed all five pieces of legislation we’ve been waiting on. Full coverage coming tomorrow, but for now you can see the final status of all the legislation we’ve covered…
Governor Gavin Newsom has until October 12 to sign or veto legislation passed during the recently concluded legislative session. If he doesn’t act on a piece of legislation, it also becomes law. Below is a list of all of the…
For better or worse, Governor Gavin Newsom has shown remarkable message discipline when targeting President Donald Trump and Republican leaders, often pinning responsibility on them for many of California’s—and America’s—problems. But last week, when asked why he was backing away from…
Last week, Metro opened four new A Line stations on the agency’s growing light rail system: Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, and Pomona. The A Line now runs 57.6 miles from Pomona to Long Beach. Since Metro combined the former Blue…
The following is a release from HaydenAI. Hayden is an advertiser with Streetsblog, a companion publication to Santa Monica Next. That correlation did not factor in to the decision to post this release. As of this week, Hayden AI, a leading provider…
The legislative session is over. What is heading to the governor’s desk and what will have to wait until next year. The list of bills below is in alpha-numerical order. If you’re just looking for bill status, you can find…
Last night (Thursday, September 11), the State Assembly passed Senate Bill 79, the Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener (D-SF), by a 41-17 vote. Because of amendments made after the Senate first passed the legislation, SB 79…
As the legislature inches closer to its Saturday deadline to pass legislation, there’s more than just Cap-and-Trade being put on the agenda at the last minute. Early yesterday morning—the deadline for bills to be printed in order to be eligible for a…
