There’s probably no better place to catch up on the gossip than at a big community gathering. The Santa Monica Festival at Clover Park on Saturday, May 8, was the perfect venue.
CITY HALL — When it landed on her desk, the case was like scores of others that Debra Kanoff has handled during her nearly three-decade career in the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office: A man who had boarded a Big Blue Bus claimed he’d been injured when the driver closed the door on him.
DOWNTOWN — Parking rates at City Hall’s Downtown lots are going up, part of a plan city officials say will make more efficient use of parking structures and ease traffic congestion in Santa Monica’s clogged business and shopping district.
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — When your job entails helping people, some of whom have been homeless for years, kick their addiction to drugs or alcohol, the last thing you want to do is turn them away.
CITY HALL — The City Attorney’s Office on Wednesday announced developments in two cases officials hope will serve as warnings to Santa Monica property owners who fail to honor affordable housing requirements.
CITY HALL — Having gone mayor-less since the death of Ken Genser in January, Santa Monica will remain that way for at least two more weeks. The City Council on Tuesday failed to select a replacement mayor after neither nominee for the post — Mayor Pro Tem Pam O’Connor nor Bobby Shriver — received a
PCH — If you’d rather gaze at the Pacific Ocean than stare at a television screen as you plod away on a treadmill, the Annenberg Community Beach House may soon have what you’re looking for.
A couple of months ago, I asked 600 people to join me in forming the New Energy Caucus within Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the tenants advocacy organization turned political party that controls Santa Monica’s City Council, Rent Control Board, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, a
CITY HALL — With lax enforcement and no annual reviews before the City Council, most developers who promised “community benefits” in exchange for permission to build bigger projects in Santa Monica have failed to live up to their commitments, according to a City Hall report.
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.
SM CHAMBER — Despite seven years of work on City Hall’s general plan update and a summertime deadline to approve a final version of the document, some of the toughest decisions remain to be made.
CITY HALL — An attempt by Big Blue Bus officials to raise fares will have to wait at least two more weeks. Facing a $6.1 million deficit, the transportation company has been trying to gain support for its first significant fare increase since 2002, but in recent weeks has met with delays because of
