Vigil prompted by teen deaths
Tragic teen deaths seem to plague Santa Monica year after year.
Last month, Santa Monica High School student Deanna Maran was stabbed to death at
Party politics: Two to take on the ‘five’
The Santa Monica City Council may be facing a revolution from within its own ranks.
Concerned that council members are politically lopsided
City manager to conduct report on rape procedures
Six years ago, an 82-year old woman was brutally raped at gun point in the back seat of her car while
Phones must be shut off during school hours
Cell phones are now strictly an extracurricular activity for Santa Monica students.
The Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Board enacted a
Departing from its troubled political past, the school board has voted in a new president and vice president to bridge new and longtime members together.
The Santa Monica Malibu Unified
A school district plan that would gamble millions in state funding to lower class sizes city-wide has been put on hold for more consideration by the school board.
The
District ready to take the money and run Local school officials want the state’s money — no strings attached.
Thumbing their nose at California Governor Gray Davis, the school district
Gambling millions on smaller classes
School officials may be willing to lose millions of dollars so they can cut about 300 students a year to combat overcrowded classrooms.
Increased enrollment
SMPD is out to get drunk drivers
Surprises are literally everywhere this holiday season, as the Santa Monica Police Department plans to conduct a series of random sobriety checkpoints throughout
Rising rents force restaurants from Third Street Promenade
The owner of the restaurant Matisse has sold the remaining six months on his lease and next week plans to auction off
Santa Monica schools are overcrowded, but officials have a plan to cut back
The Santa Monica public education system has become a victim of its own success.
Most of the
City council plans to change the ‘face’ of Promenade
Capitalism isn’t working on the Third Street Promenade, so the Santa Monica City Council plans to step in and give