“WHY DON’T YOU WRITE ABOUT Route 66,” Santa Monica Police Homeless Liaison Program officer, Josh Hall, asked me a couple weeks ago at the Santa Monica Police Department’s
LAST MONDAY, I WROTE THAT THE city’s “green” image was all rhetoric and little action. I wrote that statistical information from the City’s Solid Waste Management was incomplete,
A play about triumph, reconciliation, healing and hope, "A Piece of my Heart," is now running at the Morgan- Wixson Theater. The heart wrenching drama tells the true
A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME THE CITY will reconfigure traffic flow on Ocean Park Boulevard from Lincoln Boulevard to 25th Street in a few weeks by repainting single traffic lanes
FOR MONTHS, I’VE HEARD RUMORS OF a major expansion in homeless services centering on the new access/drop-in center the city is erecting on Olympic Boulevard for OPCC
TRAFFIC IS GOING TO GET WORSE BEFORE it gets better. While there are opportunities to reduce congestion in the short term, the experts say as long as there is growth,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION HAS PEOPLE IN a dither. It’ll take creative thinking and a lot of money to deal with it, long term. The sooner we start, the better.
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SANTA MONICA IS AT A CROSSROADS. The next two years could see lots more development unless the city takes steps to contain it.
A large number of projects are in
THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA APPEARS to have a housing policy that discriminates against the elderly.
Since 2000, the City has funded the development of over 622 low-income rental
SANTA MONICA HAS RAMPED UP spending on the homeless over the last couple of years by expanding City Hall’s homeless service staff, hiring a $200,000 per year “homeless
YOU’D THINK AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF more than 1,100 units of low-income housing would have City Hall planners and politicians dancing with joy. Ehhhh! Wrong!
If anything, the
MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT MASS transit is the answer to future traffic woes. Maybe and maybe not.
The best way to get people out of private vehicles is to offer
