Editor's Note: The vote to remove the board was 6-1 with Mayor Lana Negrete opposing the decision.
The Santa Monica city council executed a good ol’fashioned power
Last Friday, President Trump fired the Commissioner of Labor Statistics when she provided data that displeased him, which suggests we may have officially crossed into an Orwellian era. But if
My life changed 20 years ago, when my friend and I were floating down the Rogue River in Oregon. Suddenly the motor fell off the boat, which tipped over. I
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes National Night Out, Festival of Chariots, Dine LA Restaurant Week, and much more!
Community Picnic
Plenty of Angelenos these days complain about what they see as the city’s lack of leadership, a critique that often is directed at the city’s mayor and council.
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes the return of Dine LA Restaurant Week, Spazmatics concert, Esters Wine Shop & Oyster Bar
Santa Monica has numerous problems that are abundantly obvious to anyone who cares to look and City leaders deserve all the criticism they get for their many failings. However, the
Blocked for now by a federal court order from sending warrantless roving immigration patrols through Los Angeles and six other Southern California counties, U.S. agents on Thursday moved their
Every summer, a few headlines remind us about Mental Health Awareness Month. And then, just as quickly, we move on.
But the truth doesn’t go away. For people whose
When Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were drafting a more-or-less final 2025-26 state budget last month, they were closing what they described as a $12 billion deficit, a number
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