Legislation aimed at protecting mobile home park residents from displacement in the wake of natural disasters cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, passing out of the California Senate Housing Committee with
At the closing session of the 2025 Luskin Summit, focussing this year on equitable recovery and resilience, leaders from prominent philanthropic organizations joined grassroots advocates and community members to call
President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are putting many California businesses, jobs and the state budget at risk. They’re affecting not only long-term relationships with trading partners, but
In a Hollywood courtroom, prosecutor and defense attorney both asserted their positions on how to best administer justice to the man appearing before them in shackled restraints. Judge Ronald Owen
Amid a post-2024 wave of Democratic interest in the burgeoning pro-development “abundance” movement, this seemed to be an easy year for California’s yes-in-my-backyard housing development activists.
Democratic leaders in
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes the Virginia Avenue Park Art & Literacy Festival, 3rd St. Promenade AMP Festival (Art, Music,
City Council members unanimously directed staff to develop a more ambitious entertainment zone for the Third Street Promenade this week, rejecting a limited pilot program in favor of a permanent,
With more than 187,000 people sleeping on California’s streets and in its shelters, the state’s homeless services industry is struggling to hire enough qualified workers to help
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of President Donald Trump’s broad imposition of tariffs on imported goods.
“President Trump’
Dear Editor,
Kudos to Staff Intern Devyn Hamilton for an excellent take on the debate over use of SM Airport Land. Asking SAMO students, the people who will soon be
A theatrical festival to celebrate revolutionary minds is hosting their first annual “GeniusFEST” from April 24 - 27 with various showtimes at the Santa Monica Playhouse to show three different
