Santa Monica Pier is the second most polluted beach in California. The Palisades Fire put lead, arsenic, and beryllium into our bay. Our storm drains fail state health standards on
Santa Monica's City Council secretly co-sponsored legislation stripping our coast of independent oversight for a decade. Sacramento amended the bill to name our city alone. No other California
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes CicLAvia, YALLWEST Young Adult Book Fest, Porto's on Abbot Kinney This Weekend, Food
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes a theatrical salute to the Pier, YMCA Healthy Kids Day, Parsons Dance at BroadStage, Earth
By Shawn Landres
After twelve years on Santa Monica commissions and eight on the Planning Commission, my term ends this June. I frequently have returned to the question of how
By Dan Walters, CalMatters
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When California voters approved Proposition 13 in 1978, they forced a massive change in
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes Santa Monica’s first municipal art gallery, the Sounds of Santa Monica Kids Club, a
By Peter Weber and Chris Thornberg, Special for CalMatters
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Five gubernatorial candidates met at a recent debate hosted
By Dan Walters, CalMatters
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Watt Avenue is one of several Sacramento County streets named for famous inventors, in
By David Snyder, Special for CalMatters
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At a moment in our country’s history
It’s appropriate that at a time when many are celebrating holidays of freedom and rebirth, Santa Monica is celebrating the anniversary of the “Realignment Plan.” Well, only the six-month
