Hayden To Run For L.A. Council
After 18 years in the California State Assembly -- as a member of the Assembly and the State Senate, Tom Hayden announced last Thursday that he will...

Constitution Day Parade Is Saturday
The seventh annual Constitution Day Parade will be held this Saturday, September 16, in Santa Monica. 
   The parade will begin on Main Street at the Civic Center at 11 a.m., and concluding ceremonies will be held at...

Start of PCH Dig Will Be Delayed
For beset Pacific Coast Highway drivers who regularly face bumper-to-bumper traffic, mudslides, construction projects and miscellaneous problems, the news from City Hall last week was...

Big Blue's Proposed Parking Structure Sparks Criticism
Residents were critical of a parking structure that is a major element in the Big Blue Bus' proposed "facility improvement and expansion plan" which was unveiled at...

Overflow Crowd Turns Out For Wage Hearing
An overflow crowd turned out for the City Council meeting last night, Tuesday, September 12, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to hear item 9-A, "presentation on the...

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND...

Clinicare Sponsors Saturday Health Fair
Everything from Medical and Chiropractic consultations to massages and interactive clinic tours will be provided free to the public at the Clinicare Health Fair Open House on...

Wrestlers To Wash Cars For Cash
In need of new warm-ups and competition singlets, the Samohi Wrestling Team is staging a car wash at the Samohi parking lot on...

Volunteers Will Scour Sand In Annual Beach Clean-Up
Saturday morning, Santa Monica residents will join thousands of other Southern Californians to scour over 30 beaches, three stretches of the Los Angeles River, ten inland sites and three bodies of...

Dempsay Returns To Step-Up
Susan Dempsay, Founder and Executive Director of Step-up on Second, has returned to the agency as Interim Director while a search is made for...

Harvard Economist Likes Pollin Report
The second of two peer reviews of the "Economic Analysis of Santa Monica Living Wage Proposal," authored by Robert Pollin, has been received by...

SMLW Presents Its Own Analysis
At a breakfast meeting/press conference on Thursday, September 7, members of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, Santa Monicans for a Living Wage (SMLW), and the press heard a summary of...

Candidates Appear at CofC Forum
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce hosted a candidates' forum Monday, September 11. On hand were State Senate candidates Sheila Kuehl (D) and Daniel Rego (R.), State Assembly candidates Jayne Shapiro (R) and Fran Pavley (D). Topics discussed included...

St. Monica's Dedicates Yard
Steven N. Hilton, president of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation joined Monsignor Lloyd Torgerson and the 900 students who attend St. Monica's School to celebrate the opening of...

Planning Commission Okays A.K.A. Plan
The Planning Commission unanimously approved A.K.A. Los Angeles, Inc.'s proposal to use a single family home located at 1534 20th Street to manufacture and sell samples of...

Two Living Wage Coalitions - Who are They?
You like the idea of a living wage. You want to support the workers in the Coastal Zone. Maybe even donate your time or a few bucks. Think you know who to call? Santa Monicans for Living Wage, of course. Or is it the...

School Board Ponders Samohi Surveillance Plan
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District's (SMMUSD) Board of Education voted, at its meeting last Thursday, September 7, to apply for a grant of as much as $40,000 from the...

PRC Delays Decision On Boathouse Lease
Vying for the coveted location on the Santa Monica Pier currently occupied by the Boathouse Restaurant, both Landry's Seafood and Bubba Gump Shrimp Company made presentations at the...