Last August, I was approached by Oscar de la Torre, who was running for his third four-year term on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education.
Over the next five years, Downtown and the surrounding areas will be transformed as City Hall moves forward with several critical projects that will make Santa Monica a more desirable and safer place to live.
SM PIER — Money may not grow on tree branches, but, at least in Santa Monica, it sometimes turns up in places that are just about as unlikely. Namely, at the bottom of ashtrays.
CITY HALL — Bulldozers could soon be the new Priuses in Downtown Santa Monica. A slate of projects in the city’s commercial core and adjacent Civic Center planned for the next five years promises to transform the most iconic parts of the city — and to pose some serious challenges for businesses, the
Some days are just better than others. Some days the sky is bluer and the air is sweeter. Other days, not so much. But living in Santa Monica allows me take a walk along the pier, see the sun set on the Pacific and remember that each day here is blessed.
DOWNTOWN — There’s a winter nip in the air. Southern California has endured one of the colder winters on record. But don’t despair. Toss on a warm sweater and head to the Farmers’ Market.
CIVIC CENTER — Roaming the streets of Santa Monica at 2 a.m. probably isn’t what most people envision when they think of public service. But that’s how about 170 volunteers paid their dues this week, spanning out across the city’s eight square miles beginning just after midnight on Wednesday.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
On Aug. 1, 1981 a new cable television channel went live. MTV began airing videos, and started with “Video Killed The Radio Star” by The Buggles. Thirty years ago that first video planted the seeds for the revolution that has become how we interact with the world.
The Santa Monica Pier Restoration Corp. announced Thursday its latest edition of the annual Twilight Dance Series poster contest. The winning design will become the official poster for the 27th annual Twilight Dance Series, the pier’s free summer concerts.
Q: My neighbor’s home was broken into while at work last week. Now I’m worried that one day I will come home and find that my residence was broken into.
