This week, Santa Monica’s City Council will deliberate a major decision that will impact the city for decades to come. And, our city, along with the Chamber of Commerce and Sustainable Works, will celebrate its most sustainable businesses. Determining the Future…
Congrats to Santa Monica Next’s own Carter Rubin, who was appointed to the Planning Commission during the wee hours of the morning Wednesday. Rubin was tapped to fill a seat left vacant on the Commission, the city’s most powerful non-elected…
On July 1, an agreement between the City of Santa Monica and the federal government that requires the city to maintain low cost leases and an extra 2,000 feet of runway at the Santa Monica Airport expires. Whether this means…
Next month, the City Council will consider a document that will impact Santa Monica’s future for the next several decades. When the Council votes on the ZOU it will have to decide whether or not the foundation upon which the Santa…
Note: The original version of this article was published on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. [pullquote align=left] Hey, we’ve saddled the next generation with student loan debt; why not give them some water…
In a day and age when most people are used to making important decisions in group email threads or in virtual meetings with colleagues scattered all across the globe, hours-long in-person meetings are increasingly a thing of the past. Except,…
Editor’s Note: Below is the next installment in a series about Santa Monica’s recent municipal election by long-time political observer and former City Council candidate, Frank Gruber. This post originally appeared on his personal blog, The Healthy City Local. After my…
A year ago this month, the Santa Monica City Council approved a community civic engagement strategy, which is an issue near and dear to us at Santa Monica Next, as you know from our Vote Local campaign last fall. The problem: Santa…
Welcome back! We hope that everyone enjoyed their holidays. At Santa Monica Next, we were able to get some much-needed downtime. Now we’re rested and ready to get back to work. What are you most looking forward to in 2015, Santa…
We’ll be publishing on a holiday schedule this week, with a light day on Wednesday. But here’s a quick run down of a couple important upcoming events: Santa Monica Police crack down again on street users, get in the holiday…
With three meetings left in 2014, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a small, 32-unit housing complex along Pico Boulevard, the first — and likely last — housing project to get discretionary approval this year. The project comes…
We are taking a couple of days off in observance of Veterans Day, but not before we give you a quick run down of some important upcoming events. This week, the City Council will decide the fate of what could…
It’s finally happening! Santa Monica could move forward with plans for a 500-bicycle bike share program at this Tuesday’s City Council meeting. After more than two years of planning and waiting, the City Council will decide whether to approve a…
I’m going to admit it. As a former political operative turned activist turned journalist, I have a pretty high threshold for what I consider unfair or dirty campaigning. That being said, I’ve been unpleasantly surprised by the tricks, vitriol and…
Zoe Muntaner arrived in Santa Monica in 1997, over the past couple of decades she has lived in Brooklyn, Puerto Rico, Dubai and basically all over the world. Coming from a family with a political background in Puerto Rico, Muntaner…
