News from Santa Monica.
Last night, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved the contract for the First/Last Mile Plan for Bergamot Station (Agenda, Item 5A; Video, 2:59). After a decade-long public process the final hurdle for the project proved more difficult than expected…
There’s little public discussion of Santa Monica hosting its own Open Streets event again, the last Santa Monica Coast was years before the pandemic; but CicLAvia returns to the Westside and Santa Monica’s backyard later this month. For the uninitiated,…
Welcome to the second issue of volume fourteen of Swish, a periodical with recaps and photos of Santa Monica Family YMCA youth basketball games, and other pertinent info such as announcements and updates from the program. This Winter season, the…
“I’m thrilled,” said Cynthia Rose, the executive director of Santa Monica Spoke, when asked about her thoughts about the Bergamot Area First/Last Mile Improvements – a series of bicycle and pedestrian safety projects aimed at improving access to the station…
Via Twitter user @bikeboulderbike came news last week that the city had installed stop signs (and those orange flags to draw attention to the new stops) on Idaho Avenue hear Franklin Elementary. The new crossings are part of the city’s…
Update, Thursday evening: The chair of the Santa Monica Democratic Club wrote in response to the original draft of this story on our Instagram. “The support of the Santa Monica Democratic Club is not “a question mark.” Our board voted…
See you then!
Yesterday, Unite Here! Local 11, the hotel workers union, announced the details of its settlement with thirty four hotels across the Southern California region. The deal includes settlements with two Santa Monica hotels that had been previously announced, the Fairmont…
For more on the history of the Ebony Beach Club, read this excellent article in the Atlanta Black Star. At last week’s City Council meeting (Agenda, Item 16L), the Council voted unanimously to right one of the historical wrongs from…
Union actions have become a familiar site in Santa Monica over the last few months, but the location for this picket is less familiar. Yesterday, two dozen members of SEIU 99 picketed outside of the Michigan Avenue gate of Samohi…
Caption: Gleam Davis holds up a fentanyl testing kit that the county hands out with needles in their exchange program after Phil Brock complained that the county doesn’t just hand out these kits and anti-overdosing drugs. At last night’s City…
Last September, then Councilmember (now Mayor) Phil Brock made an unforced error when he introduced a motion aimed at reducing the impact that the Unite Here! Local 11 Union, the local service workers union, could have in its protests. The…
The Santa Monica Department of Transportation upgraded a pair of crosswalks with “Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon” (RRFB) more commonly known as “flashing lights.” The first crosswalk upgraded was at the intersection of 19th Street and San Vicente Boulevard. The second…
(Caption: The idea of an anti-harassment ordinance may be new for Santa Monica, but the need isn’t. Former Santa Monica Next editor Gary Kavanagh avoided a dooring in 2011 and still had time to capture this image of the door…
And we’re off! Earlier this morning, Dan Hall became the first candidate to formally launch a campaign for Santa Monica City Council. Four of the seven seats on the Council will be decided in this November’s election. Hall should be…
