News from Santa Monica.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the City Council quickly and unanimously moved a motion that will cap gifts that City Councilmembers can accept at $100 per gift and $590 over the course of a year. City staff will need to officially draft…
Last night, the new Santa Monica City Council unanimously passed a resolution instructing city staff to bring an ordinance for approval in early 2025 to streamline the public process for housing projects built in “non-residential zones” except the Bergamot Area. …
The following is a submission from Pier Communications. Pacific Park presents “Cheer On The Pier,” with the arrival of Surfing Santa to the Santa Monica Pier just in time for the last Locals’ Night event featuring holiday-themed fun, winter wonders and a…
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In recent months, progressives and other social media users have been migrating from Twitter/X to Bluesky. Be it the politics of Twitter/X’s owner, the algorithm that seems to throttle news in favor of conspiracy or any of the other myriad…
When the Pico Neighborhood Association and Maria Loya filed a lawsuit against the City of Santa Monica to attempt to force the city to change its City Council elections from seven at-large seats to ones tied to specific geographic areas,…
Last night, four new City Councilmembers were sworn in: Dan Hall, Ellis Raskin, Barry Snell, and Natalya Zernitskaya. Dan Hall shared his first speech from the dais as a member of the Santa Monica City Council. Photo: Bradley Ewing. Thank…
Last week, and that was before the Franklin Fire broke out in Malibu, there were warnings that the local air quality was dangerously low. With the smoke from wildfires drifting south, the air quality is getting worse. Back in 2009,…
The following is a press release from SMMUSD. Photo: Student scholars from Samohi were recognized by the school board and Superintendent Dr. Shelton Congratulations to the seven Santa MonicaMalibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and the 32…
This Saturday, the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project kicked off “Phase 2b” of its multi-year outreach process to guide a consulting team in creating a design for a future “great park” on the land where the Santa Monica Airport now…
The following is a submission from the City of Santa Monica. The city of Santa Monica Wednesday released a draft of the Guiding Principles for the Airport Conversion Project, ahead of the Dec. 7 community event to share them and…
The Airport Conversion team is holding a meeting this weekend to both allow stakeholders (residents, business owners, workers, Mar Vista residents, etc…) to provide input on how the city can turn the airport into open space after the airport is…
In its most recent news roundup, the Ocean Park Association noted that the promised speed limit reductions on Neilson Way between Pico Boulevard and Marine Street are now in place. Speed limits dropped 5 miles per hour, from 30 to…
As we discussed earlier today, Santa Monica Next has had a great year despite a budget that doesn’t even afford us a full-time editor. As a non-profit publication, we rely on our readers to continue to support our work through…
By pretty much all accounts, Santa Monica Next had a good year. Santa Monica’s youngest and scrappiest news organization actually grew our readership well past the online readership of the Santa Moncia Star and even slipped ahead of the Lookout.…
