Dear City Council.
On Sunday at Memorial Park, I got some throws in with my 10-year-old son. We're getting ready for Fall Ball and love the community of
By Chris Tokita
As an ecologist and a constituent of both Senate District 24 and Assembly District 51, I have long appreciated being represented by environmental leaders. Yet, both Senator
COLUMNIST CHARLES ANDREWS BIDS FAREWELL -courtesy photo
By CHARLES ANDREWS
FORGOTTEN?
Gosh, I hope not, not too soon anyway, after 14 years and 870 columns for the Santa Monica Daily
I don’t know who the angry, misguided individual is who has been posting anonymous signs on the Third Street Promenade denigrating Santa Monica’s administration. But after seeing his
The 2028 Olympics will open in Los Angeles in exactly three years, and the planning for the Games is racing alongside their politics.
The planning is going better, but the
Sociologist Robert Merton coined the term “unintended consequences” in a 1936 essay, exploring how people take actions they believe will have positive outcomes, but later learn they have negative impacts.
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes Dog Daze of Summer event on Montana Ave., Endless Summer C.A.M.P., Venice
A perfect storm of economic, fiscal and political trends is battering California’s already deficit-ridden state budget, leading public employee unions and other interest groups dependent on money from Sacramento
Last month the Santa Monica City Council fired six city officials without cause, tossing aside the councilmembers’ commitment to transparent governance when it got in the way of scoring political
By Erica Cuyugan, Santa Monica Public Library Director
In Santa Monica, we understand the importance of connection – whether it’s between community groups and neighbors or local businesses and customers.
Los Angeles is built on a shared promise. It is a mosaic of diverse communities bound together by creativity, innovation, and perseverance. We create great things… together.
But in the
