SMMUSD HDQTRS — In the wake of Monday’s release of Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Chief Financial Officer Jan Maez was left shaking her head.
Unplug the television and put away the iPods, it’s time to play outside. City Hall wants kids to get active and enjoy Santa Monica’s parks, officially making Saturday, May 21 “Kids to Parks Day,” a first in the city’s history.
Good karma won’t be the only thing volunteers with Heal the Bay have a shot at taking home following summer beach cleanups. Thanks to a partnership with Ford, picking up cigarette butts and other urban debris could earn you a new, eco-friendly car.
CITYWIDE — Renters in Santa Monica will have to pay their landlords as much as $57 more a month under a plan being considered by the Rent Control Board.
LOS ANGELES — Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple’s home before they announced their separation last week.
CITYWIDE — Santa Monica police will be searching high and low for drivers and passengers not wearing their seat belts as part of an enforcement campaign — “Click it or Ticket,” authorities said Monday.
CITY HALL — The mix of money and politics can create a toxic brew, and local politicians are trying to pass the poisoned cup as they debate the possibility of raising campaign contribution limits for Santa Monica elections.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s newest superintendent will start at $230,000 in base pay, but will not receive all the same perks or the work schedule that her predecessor enjoyed, according to the contract released Monday by district officials.
WILSHIRE BLVD — Proposed bus-only lanes along Wilshire Boulevard will move forward, but not in Santa Monica, if a Metropolitan Transportation Authority committee approves a staff recommendation next week.
SUNSET PARK — Today, Miyoung Michelle Suh, a chef-instructor at the Art Institute of California in Santa Monica, is in South Korea, en route to Kajikistan to support members of her church as they perform mission work in the former Soviet bloc country.
Dear EarthTalk I heard someone say that legalizing pot — as Californians considered doing last year — would benefit the environment. How would that be? William T.
SACRAMENTO — A quarter of all state parks would close because of budget cuts approved by the state Legislature — from redwood groves along the North Coast to historic mining sites in the Sierra foothills and the Salton Sea in Southern California — under plans announced Friday by Gov.
