The Santa Monica City Council unanimously approved a $1.797 million federal funding plan Tuesday night that will direct Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Act funds toward
As Los Angeles prepares to host the world for the 2026 FIFA World Cup beginning June 11, Santa Monica is making its own play to become one of the region’
The Santa Monica City Council voted Tuesday to accept a $486,760 federal grant for police de-escalation and crisis response training, but only after attaching conditions designed to shield the
I recently read that “Massachusetts, with no significant natural resource extraction industry, has leveraged its highly educated workforce and research institutions to rank among the richest economies in the world.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pursue a two-track strategy for implementing a sweeping new state housing law, seeking to delay its effects on the city's most
Councilmember Hall opened his response to my op-eds with a paragraph cataloguing my organizational affiliations. His goal was clear: frame me as a political actor, not a credible critic. What
The Santa Monica City Council meets Tuesday with a packed agenda that includes a long-delayed vote on a new tenant for the former Rusty's Surf Ranch space on
By Dan Hall
On April 24 & 26, the Daily Press published two op-eds by Ms. Ashley Oelsen criticizing my support for AB 1740. Readers deserve to know what that
The Santa Monica Planning Commission voted unanimously this week to forward a sweeping "Missing Middle Housing" proposal to the City Council, recommending the city formally define a category
The Santa Monica Planning Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend a dual-strategy approach for implementing a sweeping state housing law, seeking to temporarily shield vulnerable residential neighborhoods from mandatory upzoning
Santa Monica's City Council secretly co-sponsored legislation stripping our coast of independent oversight for a decade. Sacramento amended the bill to name our city alone. No other California
The Santa Monica Police Department officially launched a centralized real-time crime operations hub Monday, marking what city officials described as a significant shift in how the department prevents and responds
