 
Downtown Palm Trees Seem To Be Dying
More than a few Windmill Sand Palm trees on Arizona
Avenue between Second and Fifth Streets appear to be dying...
City Plans $475 Million in
Improvements
The City of Santa Monica is currently committed to
spending close to $500 million on capital improvement projects in the
next ten years...
SMRR’s Candidate
Endorsements Lead To Acrimony, Accusations
As it has done every other year for more than 20 years,
Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR) has endorsed a slate of
candidates for the municipal election...
School District’s
Investigation of Racial Profiling Is Underway
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s (SMMUSD)
recently-formed Task Force on Racism and Discipline met...
Joel Tudor taking first. photo by Sylvester Montreal
Going Long in Surf City
With less than a minute left in Saturday’s long-board
finals at the U.S. Open surfing in Huntington Beach, Zach Howard...
New Lincoln Principal: Looking,
Learning
On a lazy summer afternoon in late July, there are very
few signs, if any, that Lincoln Middle School...
Green Line Friends To Meet
Thursday
The Friends of the Green Line will meet on Thursday,
August 8...
SMC To Offer Free ESL Classes
Santa Monica College has announced that enrollment for
its free English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) courses is ongoing...
Council Creates New Disabilities
Commission
At its July 23 meeting, the Santa Monica City Council
approved on second reading an ordinance establishing a Disabilities
Commission. Commission members will be named in the near future...
German Green Talks Traffic in
Santa Monica
Under a poster touting “a dream become reality: Berlin
finally free of cars” and over a couple of bottles of wine and packets
of chocolate...
Clergy Request Meeting With
Loews Manager On Worker Issues
The following letter was sent to John Tucker, general
manager, Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Tuesday, August 6...
Living Wage Coalition Endorses
Arnold, McKeown
A sub-committee of the Coalition In Support of a Living
Wage has endorsed two of the candidates for the three open seats on
the Santa Monica City Council...
City Shows Off New Projects
About 25 residents took the fourth annual Santa Monica
City bus tour, “Whole Lotta Projects Goin’ On” in mid-July...
Wild Blue Yonder
To the dismay of many Santa Monica residents, including
dozens of devoted docents, the Museum of Flying closed last week...
RAND Creates New Health Security
Center
RAND, the Santa Monica-based think tank that made its
name devising weaponry and strategies for the Defense Department...
Big Blue Plans Service Reduction
Big Blue Bus officials will recommend some service
changes on Line 14 to the Santa Monica City Council next week... |
