CITY HALL — Want to name Santa Monica's new bikeshare system? Just interested in submitting snarky or politically biting names?
Either way, City Hall is accepting suggestions for the
The Santa Monica Police Department responded to 342 calls for service on Jan. 8. Below is a sampling of those calls chosen by the Santa Monica Daily Press staff.
Hit
PALISADES PARK — After a year of restricting fitness training in the city's parks, City Council will consider making the permitting rules stricter.
Weekend start times would get later,
YOUR COLUMN HERE — Election seasons run on rhetoric. The echoes of development issues, in particular, continue to reverberate. Now, with a new year, and a newly seated City Council, we
Berlin the cat was lost from a home on Mesa Road this week. If anyone has any information on his location, contact the owner at (310) 613-0252 or (661) 794-3587
CITY HALL — After significant delays, City Hall's bikeshare vendor of choice has opened systems in at least two cities with another opening scheduled for later this week.
Bikeshares
CITY HALL — At least 11 residents are in the mix to fill the Planning Commission seat left vacant when Sue Himmelrich was elected to City Council in November.
The Planning
CITY HALL — After a decade and a half on the dais and having had, in his words, "the football pulled out from" him in other mayoral selection processes,
CITY HALL — City Council took care of some housekeeping details at its last meeting before the year's end.
A wage ordinance was amended to align with the state,
CITYWIDE - Planes, trains, and the zoning code will likely be the dominant issues of 2015.
The year after a highly contested, low-turnout election will likely be a big one
THE PAST - In January of 1915, Santa Monica opened what the Los Angeles Times called "the first municipally managed dancing pavilion in California" at the edge of