TURNING THE WORLD
photo by Margaret Molloy
Sun
Comes Out for Earth Day Saturday
As morning rain gave way to sun, an estimated 15,000
people gathered on the Third Street Promenade...
Urban Designer Sees Job as Balancing
Act
Last year, when the Santa Monica Planning Department
created a new position: urban designer, it consulted its neighbor...
Irkut Aviation’s Be-200.
Topanga: Taming the Wildfires
With less rainfall than usual this year, the hillsides
and canyons of Southern California are once again at risk for
wildfires... Council
Delays Decision On Major Policy Shift
After a long public hearing last Tuesday, the Santa
Monica City Council delayed its decision on a proposed text
amendment... 
SMRR’s Westside Players (l. to r.) Harriet Beck,
Marcia Zimmer, Alfred Catavelli and Lily Houston.
SMRR: Still On the Beat After 25 Years
On April 10, 1979, Santa Monica voters approved the
most comprehensive rent control system in the nation...
Strategic Planning Journal
Common Goals and Equal Rights
If I had any way to get out of it, I would. It’s not my
idea of fun to spend all day on a Saturday...
Liberty Hill to Honor Hayden, Reagon
In 1923, muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair was
arrested for reading the Declaration of Independence at a ‘Wobbly’
free speech strike in San Pedro...
Traffic: Where Is It Going, and Why
Isn’t It Going Faster?
Does it take you too long to drive across town? Can you
park when you get there...?
Prominent Firefighter,
Surfer Dies
Dan Bendiksen, a Santa Monica firefighter, avid surfer
and surfboard shaper, died after a four-year battle with cancer...
Report Shows Santa Monica Women
Unequal
Women in Santa Monica may be as well-educated as men,
but they have much lower median incomes and have significantly higher
poverty levels as they get older...
Jerry Rubin To Run for Council Seat
Longtime Santa Monica activist Jerry Rubin is expected
to announce that he will run for one of four open seats on the Santa
Monica City Council... |
