CITY HALL — Planning commissioners approved a housing project set for the corner of Fourth Street and Broadway Wednesday night, a structure that embodies several ongoing conversations about the current state of development in Santa Monica, and what it will look like in a scant two years.
LOS ANGELES — A joint study released by researchers from USC and UCLA identified a huge potential for solar power infrastructure and jobs in the Southern California region, a void Santa Monica’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment is helping local residents and businesses fill.
When someone asked me, “Hey, did you hear that Johnny’s gone?” I thought that he had finally decided to go into a housing program. Johnny was one of the homeless that I talked to every day.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education will hold the second of two meetings tonight to hear public discussion on the topic of districtwide fundraising, a controversial policy which would fundamentally alter the way parents provide supplemental money to their children’s schools.
CIVIC CENTER — Santa Monica residents can feel pretty certain that they will have access to three light rail stations by 2015 that will connect the city to Downtown Los Angeles through the Exposition Light Rail line.
CITY HALL — Members of the organization Community for Excellent Public Schools (CEPS) earlier this month gathered to celebrate the first anniversary of the passage of a half-cent transaction and use tax that has been levied on the citizens of Santa Monica since March 2011.
Dear New Shrink, I am in my early 20s and have been seeing a psychotherapist for about five months now. At first, I wasn’t even sure why I was going; I just wanted someone to talk to.
BROAD STAGE — There’s something about Shakespeare that brings out the renaissance faire in all of us. Case in point: dozens of members of the audience at the premier of “The Comedy of Errors” at the Broad Stage came decked out in period costumes Saturday.
I have been missing from the pages of this paper for a little over a year now, ever since I had my second son, Eli. The last Mommie Brain column I wrote chronicled Eli’s arrival and the scare he gave us all by being a little over five weeks early.
OCEAN PARK BLVD — Santa Monica-based nonprofit Consumer Watchdog filed a class action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday accusing insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross of changing the terms of existing contracts to charge its clients more.
As an African American and an environmentalist, I went along for a long while with the idea that race and class are irrelevant to the cause of environmental protection.
