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Kool Happenings: Face the Music and Compare and Contrast
There are two prevailing theories about the origin of...
2026 State of the City event to Highlight Realignment Plan and “Santa Monica’s Emerging Renaissance”
The following is a submission from the City of...
Pacific Park’s Ferris Wheel Launches America 250 Celebration With Fourth of July Light Spectacular
The following is a submission from the Pier Corporation.Pacific...
Council Passes Operating and Capital Improvements Budgets
The city council passed a balanced budget last night...
Gruber: Turns Out That When It Comes To Local Politics Santa Monica is not So Exceptional
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. In the last couple of posts I’ve been trying, mostly by means...
Gruber: Santa Monica and the Great L.A. Late 20th Century Transfiguration
For my last post I reread parts of Mike Davis’ City of Quartz to give me some perspective on what’s going on today in Santa Monica with anti-development...
Gruber: When History Repeats As Farce, It’s Not Always Funny
“If the slow-growth movement … has been explicitly a protest against the urbanization of suburbia, it is implicitly—in the long tradition of Los Angeles...
Gruber: When It Comes to Housing Santa Monica’s Next Generation, Whose Side Are You On?
Editor's note: This post was originally posted on The Healthy City Local, the blog of long-time political observer and former Planning Commissioner, Frank Gruber. It is...
Gruber: A Candidate’s Perspective on the Santa Monica City Council Election, Part One
Editor's note: Below is the first in a series of blog posts by former City Council Candidate and long-time political observer, Frank Gruber, taking...
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2026 State of the City event to Highlight Realignment Plan and “Santa Monica’s Emerging Renaissance”
The following is a submission from the City of...
Pacific Park’s Ferris Wheel Launches America 250 Celebration With Fourth of July Light Spectacular
The following is a submission from the Pier Corporation.Pacific...
Council Passes Operating and Capital Improvements Budgets
The city council passed a balanced budget last night...
Fairview, Montana and Ocean Park Branch Libraries to Open Four Days Per Week
The following is a submission from the City of...

