In May, Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City, a local citizens’ group, filed a writ petition in Superior Court to compel the City of Santa Monica to turn over public records relating to the […]

On Saturday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Culver City celebrated the completion of a $290,000 environmental cleanup of a former oil pumping site at Jefferson Boulevard and Duquesne Avenue that will become Culver City’s […]

For the third time this year, a Santa Monica College Professor has been named a Fulbright Scholar.    Santa Monica College adjunct political science professor Natalina Monteiro’s Fulbright Scholar’s Award will take her to Mozambique. She […]

It was the best of times.  It was the worst of times.  It was a dark and stormy night when Ben Quick’s barn burners razed our town’s old main library much like the sacking of […]

Fledgling L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl will chair the Council’s Committee on Education and Neighborhoods, and will sit on panels overseeing Los Angeles International Airport, environmental issues, the city budget, and juvenile justice. City Council […]

Senator Barbara Boxer (D. CA) announced that the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill that was passed last Thuesday by the Senate Appropriation Committee includes $4 million for metropolitan bus transportation systems projects […]

Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina announced the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s $2,259,000 in grants to 199 nonprofit arts organizations for fiscal year 2005-6 on Tuesday, July 19. 14 arts organizations in Santa Monica […]

One Malibu council member has suggested changing the name of Malibu to “the exclusive city of Malibu” to conform to the Los Angeles Times’ style book. Others can only laugh about the worldwide headlines that […]

On Monday evening, Santa Monica College’s (SMC) Board of trustees met in emergency session to unanimously approve a letter responding to a City of Santa Monica staff report regarding access to the College’s new Bundy […]

Having assembled a design team and begun work on the restoration of the former Marion Davies beachfront estate at 415 PCH, the City of Santa Monica has scheduled two community workshops at which residents will […]