I am so happy my mother was able to campaign for me in my first race for public office when I ran for city council in 2004. She loved campaigning here. Door to door, the […]

The first of four concerts in the 4th annual free Jazz on the Lawn series at City Hall, sponsored by the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, kicked-off on Sunday, August 8th. Upright Cabaret, […]

Last Saturday, a sold out audience at Santa Monica High School’s Barnum Hall listened intently as author and co-founder of the Central Asia Institute (CAI), Greg Mortenson, explained his innovative approach of building peace through […]

At 9:30 a.m. on Election Day, the library at Will Rogers Learning Community opened as a polling place for the fifth graders’ “mock election” for President of the United States. Students filed into the library […]

The gardener sprays down the windows on a beautiful September afternoon at the Venice home of Victoria Duffy Hopper. This late in the year the sun is at its zenith in the sky – a […]

Longtime L.A. Westsider and now Denver resident Jude DeLorca filed the following dispatch from the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening, August 26. Santa Monica’s Wendy Wanderman and Venice’s Victoria Duffy Hopper are among the delegates […]

The political season is taking shape, and a gaggle of Santa Monica contestants are poised for battle as the lines have now been drawn. The November Santa Monica ballot has been finalized in races for […]

On March 7, Treesavers attorney Tom Nitti obtained a new court order that would delay destruction and removal of any of the ficus trees on 2nd and 4th Streets. The order, issued by the Court […]

The October 26 scheduled hearing on the fate of the ficus trees at 2nd and 4th Streets was taken off calendar on October 24, due to the pending process of obtaining landmark designation for the […]

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