In a step that could move Santa Monica Airport closer to closure, voters agreed to allow the City Council to make decisions regarding the fate of the airfield and rejected an effort by aviation groups […]
A pair of ballot propositions heavily touted by Gov. Jerry Brown as essential to preparing the state for future droughts and ensuring California has a healthy “rainy day” fund were handily passed by voters. Proposition […]
In the contest for the 26th State Senate district, Ben Allen defeated Sandra Fluke in a race where both candidates were under the age of 40. As of 1:45 am Wednesday, with 73.68 percent of […]
State Senator Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, was humble and gracious at his election night party Tuesday following his defeat of Republican gang prosecutor Elan Carr in the battle to replace retiring Congressman Henry Waxman. With all […]
By Charles Epting April of 2015 marks the 80th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of a number of relief agencies created as part of the New Deal in an […]
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 4 – 1 pm A bomb threat today directed at Palisades Charter High School — which was serving as a polling station — led authorities to move the voting location and evacuate […]
Election Day has arrived and real-time election results will be coming in all night long at smvote.org. All Santa Monica races and ballot measure returns are consolidated on one web page to make it easy […]
There will be at least one new council member on the dais at the final Santa Monica City Council meeting of 2014 following today’s election. Fourteen candidates are seeking to fill three seats on the […]
In the race for the four seats on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD), there are three incumbents and four challengers with Nimish Patel not seeking reelection. The incumbents seeking re-election are Laurie Lieberman, […]
Voters in Los Angeles will get the chance today to weigh in on a pair of ballot propositions heavily touted by Gov. Jerry Brown, who said their passage is essential to preparing the state for […]
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