Over three years ago, City Council approved an update to Santa Monica's general plan. Called the Land Use and Circulation Element, or LUCE, it's a loose
It's Sammy time — my annual awards for the good, bad and downright insegrevious in Santa Monica.
Both the Planning Commission and the City Council share the 2013 "
This newspaper ran a story a couple of weeks ago about the lease of a building at the Santa Monica Airport and how City Hall shortchanged itself.
City Hall wanted
Another one of those massively big developments is before City Council (Item 8-B) for review Tuesday night.
This one is the development proposed for Fourth and Fifth streets along Arizona
The Bergamot Transit Village Center (BTVC), the proposed development on the former Paper Mate site on Olympic Boulevard, is before the Planning Commission again Wednesday night (Dec. 4) at City
I had breakfast a week ago with Phil Brock, chair of the Santa Monica Parks and Recreation Commission
Hanging out with Mr. Brock is always an interesting experience. He'
My Gmail account was hacked a week ago — Saturday, Nov. 9, at 5:19 p.m. Approximately 200 people got an e-mail from bilbau@gmail.com asking them to open
Last Wednesday, Nov. 6, the Los Angeles Times featured Santa Monica on Page 1. The "A Bigger Santa Monica" headline screamed across four columns of prime newsprint space.
For more than a year, City Council has wrestled with physical training classes in city parks, especially Palisades Park.
Our parks have become a hot commodity for athletic trainers who
The Huntley Hotel, through its public relations firm Sugerman Communications Group, recently released results of a phone poll it conducted of 404 Santa Monica voters in September.
It asked opinions
The Social Engineering Commission — I mean Planning Commission — meeting last Wednesday embodied Santa Monica's own version of micro-managing governance.
Two agenda items involved full-bar, alcohol permits for a
