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SM.a.r.t: Residents and the Pension Crisis

June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018

The members of the SM.a.r.t. group are deeply concerned about the City of Santa Monica’s long-term financial health. This guest...

Opinion: Santa Monica – So Much More Than Sand!

June 1, 2018

June 1, 2018

Santa Monica’s sand and cooler air and our front-porch view of the Pacific Ocean are the prime reasons for our...

Art + Walk + Wellness = Olympic Art Trail

May 25, 2018

May 25, 2018

Thousands of cars inch along Santa Monica’s Olympic Blvd each day. Lanes separated by a center median that was, at...

Opinion: A Treemendous Victory

May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018

  …was how Jerry Rubin, Santa Monica’s own professional positivist, described Monday night’s down to the wire Landmark Commission vote...

SM.a.r.t Opinion: Our Data, Our Privacy Part 3

May 11, 2018

May 11, 2018

    In recent articles we stated that the City of Santa Monica gathers data about its citizens (and obtains...

Opinion: SMa.r.t. “Who’s Listening!?”

May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

  This article was being written as our City Council was spending a weekend retreat in Virginia Park addressing the...

Opinion: SM.a.r.t: The Wall (not music to our eyes)

April 27, 2018

April 27, 2018

The Fairmont Miramar Hotel has released its revised design concept, and, not unexpectedly, the local resident responses, per several local...

SMa.r.t.-ARB (All Ready to Build?)

March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018

By Bob Taylor Santa Monica City’s Architectural Review Board (ARB), established in 1974, acts “to preserve existing areas of natural...

SMa.r.t.-Mansionization Redux

January 26, 2018

January 26, 2018

Bob Taylor, AIA for SMa.r.t. Recently our City Manager, Rick Cole, was quoted regarding the imminent threat of larger single-family...