“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain
The Santa Monica Coalition for Police Reform urges the City Council to reject the Police
For two years, the Police Officers Association (POA) has thrown repeated roadblocks at the City’s effort to implement meaningful oversight and reform of the SMPD.
The Public Safety Reform
Merriam-Webster defines Public Service as: a service rendered in the public interest, and Environmentalism as: advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment, especially the movement to
California’s water laws are stuck in the past. The Legislature can—indeed, it must—make the changes to state law necessary to address the 21st century’s complex water
Unbeknown to the entire Santa Monica Airport Commission, FAA plans have been actively underway since before May of 2022 to re-route a flight path for LAX jet traffic over 2,
Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, and Community Members,
As you are aware, we started this school year with Muir families assigned to new schools. We continue to hear from many parents
Santa Monicans join Malibu residents in opposing Measure SMC, the $375 million Santa Monica College (SMC) bond measure that is slated to fund the construction of more buildings.
If approved,
Re: “Judge approves $230M settlement in California oil spill case.”
In the past 50 years, 600 oil and gas pipeline spills and accidents in the state of California alone have
It’s unclear whose myopia is worse — the city’s or the state’s.
The original number of proposed new housing units was already unrealistic, given the lack of both
The quest by anti-abortion lawmakers to strip pregnant people and their families of the power to make reproductive decisions and to give that power to the government leaves us all
The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica held its annual fall kick-off this past weekend. Our honored guest was Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk and election official for the City
Editor:
In response to the letters from Stewart Resmer and Joan Walston in the September 16 issue: I am not a supporter of either major political party, but it has
