CITY HALL — Gigi Decavalles-Hughes is no longer acting. City Manager Rod Gould picked Decavalles-Hughes to lead City Hall’s Finance Department after serving as acting director since September, it was announced Tuesday.
DOWNTOWN — Downtown continues to bring in the bacon and happy customers both from within Santa Monica and from without, a study found. The study, compiled by CIC Research out of San Diego, showed that visitors to Downtown are spending at consistent levels and liked the mix of stores, improvements at
EASTSIDE — A unique development model meant to make home ownership affordable on Santa Monica’s eastside may turn into more rental housing because of financing issues, highlighting the ongoing struggle to make home ownership affordable in Santa Monica.
I suspect that most members of Congress will want to forget the year that just ended. The institution that symbolizes our democracy finished 2011 plumbing depths of unpopularity it has never experienced before.
OCEAN AVE — “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” Members of the Occupy Venice organization rallied to those words by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday in Palisades Park in an attempt to show through their actions that they would no longer be silent.
SAMOHI — A popular program promoting dialogue between racial groups will return to Santa Monica High School after a year-long hiatus, and, for the first time, with direct school district funding.
SM COURTHOUSE — Justice in Santa Monica may be harder to come by if a tax measure proposed for the November ballot doesn’t pass. That’s the word from Judge Joseph Biderman, the supervising judge for the West District of Los Angeles County’s Superior Court system, which has had to swallow millions of
WASHINGTON — On the National Mall in Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering, heroic figure carved in stone. On the Broadway stage, he’s a living, breathing man who chain smokes, sips liquor and occasionally curses.
This year, like every election year, candidates are scrambling for endorsements, and it doesn’t seem to matter who the endorser is. They just want to have a lot of endorsements.
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — Santa Monica’s Woodlawn Cemetery has made the move from final resting place to the only place that a bereft family has to go after the loss of a loved one in an attempt to improve its service and its bottom line.
CITY HALL — Santa Monica’s Redevelopment Agency currently spends approximately $3.8 million on personnel, a cost which may have to be partially borne by City Hall after the agency goes defunct on Feb.
