Summer always comes to end really, if not technically, the day our students go back to school. There’s something in our rhythm, no matter how long ago it was we ourselves had the summer off, […]

I thought it surprising that Santa Monica Democratic Club failed to endorse Councilmember Pam O’Connor in her bid for re-election. Normally the Democratic Club, who nimbly avoided this reporter’s request to attend the endorsement meeting, […]

SMC is the recent recipient of several sizable grants. Two economic developments grants – each worth $600,000 – will give $1.2 million to teach manufacturing workers in health care and logistics. “Santa Monica College is […]

The Santa Monica Planning Commission has voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council make the modified development standards for the Sunset Park and North of Wilshire R1 neighborhoods permanent. The modified development standards had […]

Trial began Tuesday, September 12, in the criminal manslaughter case against George Russell Weller, who drove through the downtown Santa Monica Farmers’ Market on Arizona Ave. in July 2003, leaving 10 people dead and more […]

Candidates running for the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC) addressed their neighbors on Wednesday evening, September 6, in the Venice High School auditorium so the community could see what it would be voting for in the […]

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill making it a crime to take more than 25 copies of a free newspaper. AB 2612 “defines a new crime that is committed when a person takes more […]

During September and October, the Santa Monica Fire Department will be testing all the fire hydrants in the city; this consists of opening and closing hydrants to meter proper water flow. Tests will be conducted […]

Policy researcher Kathryn Pitkin Derose of Santa Monica’s RAND Corporation has been named one of 56 recipients of the 2005 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and is the first RAND researcher […]

The community has a chance to have input regarding a potential children’s park at the northern end of Palisades Park on Ocean Avenue. There are many children living in this part of Santa Monica, and […]