As the clock ticks down on the window of opportunity to place a massive tax increase on the June ballot to support Jerry Brown’s budget plan, taxpayers are unhappy and it’s not just about the taxes.
We Santa Monicans don’t know how great we have it. I’m reporting this week from chilly (31 degrees) weather in Point Lookout, N.Y. and I can tell you that nothing is worse than having to throw on winter gear, get in your car, wait for it to warm up, go to the gym, take off all your gear, don your wo
LONG BEACH — Santa Monica High School’s girls’ basketball team upset national powerhouse Long Beach Poly, 57-56, Wednesday in the quarter-finals of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division 1AA playoffs.
The Santa Monica Conservancy is looking for a few volunteers to serve as docents for the Annenberg Community Beach House off Pacific Coast Highway. Volunteers will be asked to attend three lectures and on-site training and dedicate at least six hours per month to giving free public tours of the form
DOWNTOWN — A coalition of Westside homeowners were disappointed Tuesday when a Los Angeles Superior Court judge dismissed all challenges to an environmental study for the Santa Monica portion of the Expo Light Rail line project.
10TH STREET — The City Attorney’s Office reached a $20,000 settlement last week with U.S. Bank after tenants of a Santa Monica rental property accused the corporation of harassment.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Superintendent Tim Cuneo warned school board members in a confidential memo of possible trouble from three former Special Education Program Task Force members he predicted would “sabotage” district negotiations with City Hall concerning funding from Measures Y and YY, a half cent sal
SANTA MONICA — The family of the American yachting couple killed by Somali pirates has requested that donations in the name of Scott and Jean Adam be made to St.
Dear New Shrink, I have been thinking about your dating advice offer. Well, here is my question. I live in Santa Monica and the beautiful women that live here are endless.
Opinions are like armpits, everybody seems to have two of them, and usually they both stink. While I recognize that fact in theory, it doesn’t mean in practice that I was prepared for my daughter to have a point of view, never mind many of them — often times several of them a day — and certainly not
DOWNTOWN — After nearly two years of study, the Bayside District Corporation will take its final steps this month to embrace its new identity — Downtown Santa Monica, Inc.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
