Breaking News Thursday Midnight

SMPD Officer Is Jailed In Beverly Hills
A Santa Monica Police Officer, Kenneth Scott, was arrested and jailed in Beverly Hills late Thursday, February 24, on charges of...

Battle At SM College Escalates

SMC Teachers Stage Protest
Neither rain nor snow nor President’s Day could keep the unions from their appointed rounds Monday as well over 100 people from three local unions turned out in support of...

SMC Faculty Censures Board
The air was peppered with charges of bad faith, malfeasance and abuse of authority as 28 Santa Monica College faculty members protested the...

Faculty Group Disavows Anonymous Flyer
Indignant officials of Santa Monica College’s Faculty Association are both denying and deploring an inflammatory flyer on what appears to be...

SANTA MONICA SCENES

Schools "Lose" Million Dollars
It was like a movie. Just as the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) was about to be saved from financial ruin by a $2.1 million grant from the Santa Monica City Council, a parent disclosed that...

City Council Delays Vote On SMMUSD Grant
Last night, former Santa Monica mayors Dennis Zane and Judy Abdo gestured frantically from the audience to City Council members to...

AFM 2000 Hits All-time High
The population of Santa Monica will swell by about 7,000 today as the...

Forum on Miranda Is Set for Saturday
On Saturday, February 26, the Pico Neighborhood Association will host a public forum on the recent...

Liberty Hill Sets Prop 21 Panel
"Unequal Justice...The Juvenile Justice Initiative" will be the subject of a public discussion of Proposition 21, the Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act, organized by...

Superintendent Schmidt Says He's at SMMUSD To Stay Angry and wishful rumors to the contrary, Neil Schmidt says he is not going anywhere. Not this year, as people have been saying. Not next year when his...

City Slates Housing Workshop
The City has scheduled a public workshop to discuss ideas and strategies for preserving affordable housing in Santa Monica. Among the questions to be addressed are...

City Looks At Child Care Issues
Over 60 Santa Monica residents turned out to discuss child care with the State of California’s Proposition 10 Committee on January 24 in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Passed by voters in 1998, Proposition 10 increased...

Nader Announces He Will Run For President
Ralph Nader, the nation's leading consumer advocate, announced Monday that he would seek the Green Party's nomination for President. He said, in part, "I am seeking the Green Party's nomination for President. A crisis of...

The Candidates Speak: Tony Vasquez, Candidate 41st Assembly District Education -- One of the challenges that we face as a community and state is the continued declining of educational standards, the lack of appropriate...

Discussion of Living Wage Set
Santa Monica residents are invited to discuss the potential impacts of a Living Wage with the research team and to pinpoint issues to be...

Effects of Dot.Com Phenom on L.A. Subject of Forum
Leaders of some of the top dot.com companies in Los Angeles will participate in a Westside Urban Forum panel discussion on the effects of the "Dot.Com Phenomenon" on Los Angeles at a...

The Candidates Speak: Brenda Gottfried, Candidate 41st Assembly District Education is clearly the number one issue not only in the 41st assembly District, but throughout the state. We must bring California up to at least...

Santa Monica Company Signs Lionel Coleman, Cameraman/Director
Live-action production company, Visitor, Santa Monica, announced this week that director/ cameraman Lionel Coleman has joined the...