The Santa Monica Democratic Club voted recently to endorse a package of state bills aimed at expanding environmental protections, safeguarding vulnerable populations and preserving California’s coastline.
During a wide-ranging
Affording a home is no easy feat in California, where houses cost twice the national average. And for a lucky few, a state program aiming to help first-time homebuyers has
Gov. Gavin Newsom staged a news conference in Los Angeles this week to tout the adoption of artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of state government.
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California lawmakers and industry leaders are rallying behind a new push to revive the state's struggling film and television industry, citing historic declines in production and growing concern
One of the most controversial housing bills of the year has lived to be voted upon another day, but only by surviving the Legislative equivalent of two back-to-back prison breaks.
The Trump administration has frozen $250 million in grants to a nonprofit helping companies replace diesel trucks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, part of a broad
Hundreds of students in Santa Monica are receiving a boost of color and creativity this week, thanks to a donation of $60,000 worth of Crayola products from Epic Entertainment
With academics out of this world, Jonathan Kim graduated from Samohi to become a Navy SEAL, doctor, and now a NASA astronaut currently in orbit. Santa Monica Malibu Unified School
California’s governors and legislators have a very bad habit of enacting major programs and projects without fully exploring their downside risks.
The most spectacular example occurred in 1996, when
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