Bill Bauer’s recent columns bring to mind the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s observation that we are all entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts.
CITY HALL — With a projected budget gap as high as $53 million by 2015, City Hall officials are considering whether to ask residents to approve a half cent sales tax increase or a property transfer tax hike this November to boost revenue and avoid cuts to services.
WESTWOOD — A building on the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration campus will be converted into a therapeutic-housing facility for chronically homeless veterans, thanks to $20 million in federal funds, local officials announced Monday.
CITY HALL — It was an irony lost on no one in the building. The City Council on Tuesday spent an hour — far longer than was devoted to any other item on the agenda — discussing ways to make their meetings shorter.
After more than six years of workshop after workshop, documents large enough to use as a booster seat and numerous Planning Commission and City Council hearings, our elected officials are poised to adopt a final Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE), the planning document that will guide growth in
With the defeat of Measure A, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s $198 “emergency” parcel tax last month, emotions are running high. School supporters have been playing the “blame game.
CITY HALL — Newly appointed by his City Council colleagues to serve as mayor, Bobby Shriver is using at least some of his newfound clout to pursue a longtime goal: holding shorter meetings.
CITY HALL — With sharp decreases in revenue because of the recession, cities across the Southland have had to make tough decisions about cutting programs, dropping projects and laying off employees.
OCEAN PARK — Environmental watchdog Heal the Bay has been named this year’s grand marshal of the Santa Monica Main Street Fourth of July Parade, event organizers announced Tuesday.
The lawsuit filed by the Southern California ACLU against the city of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Police Department has been dismissed by a federal judge.
DOWNTOWN — Jonathan Dahms stumbled into living here four months ago. He knew nothing about the area, other than it was near Venice Beach. He now knows Downtown Santa Monica, with its popular restaurants and retail and its proximity to Palisades Park and the boardwalk, is the perfect place for him to
SMO — A day after the Federal Aviation Administration ended its 180-day flight pattern test that sent some small propeller planes taking off from Santa Monica Airport over neighborhoods instead of over less-populated areas, residents said they didn’t detect an immediate drop-off in noise from flyove
