Those who have participated in the political process in Santa Monica know that residents in the city by the sea exercise their right to vote and are civically engaged, more so than those living in other areas in the region when comparing voter turnout rates.
We have to hand it to Planning Director Eileen Fogarty and her staff for holding their ground when it comes to making sure the Hines Bergamot Transit Village project, one of the largest in the city’s history with nearly 1 million square feet of commercial space, housing and retail, complies with the
As lovers of live music who spent many nights as teenagers in packed legion halls subjecting our delicate ear drums to the rat-tat-tat or the boom-bap, we were excited by the new partnership between City Hall and Nederlander Concerts, a well-respected concert producer that will take over operations
The Daily Press was impressed by City Manager Rod Gould’s sobering report on the Santa Monica Police Department’s disastrous investigation of school board member Oscar de la Torre, who, if you don’t know by now, was caught on camera at a fist fight between two high school students.
Councilman Bobby Shriver has some guts, or could it be he’s so confident in his approval ratings (the member of the Kennedy clan has received the most votes in every council race he’s entered) that he feels like he can ruffle a few feathers.
City Hall needs to help our local businesses compete, and can do this by easing the restrictions on advertising at mom-and-pop shops. On Tuesday, merchants met with city officials to discuss changes to the sign ordinance, which restricts advertising to protect the community from visual blight.
Over the next five years, Downtown and the surrounding areas will be transformed as City Hall moves forward with several critical projects that will make Santa Monica a more desirable and safer place to live.
Our inbox and mailbox have been filled recently with letters from our readers regarding pedestrian safety and traffic on our streets and the beach bike path.
It’s been two years, but finally the City Council approved the ban on single-use plastic bags. The Daily Press supports this move and believes it will help protect the environment and lessen our dependence on foreign oil.
At Thursday’s State of the City address, City Manager Rod Gould made a pledge that Santa Monica’s City Hall will be more business friendly. Well, it’s about time.
Never wanting to be left out of the conversation, the Daily Press was compelled to check out an episode of MTV’s “Skins,” the racy adaptation of the British series about the secret lives of teenagers that has generated plenty of ink over the last few weeks, and just like members of the Parents’ Advi
Parents should be calling on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to start using drug-sniffing dogs at our high schools and middle schools as a deterrent and a way to sniff out those bad apples who have the potential to spoil the whole bunch.
