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News September 6, 2019

SMa.r.t. Column: The Civic Center Field Saga

Many of you may have seen the green fence around the former Civic Center parking lot at the corner of Pico Blvd. and 4th Street. That mundane construction device is the first tangible culmination of […]

News September 5, 2019

Desalination Loses More Urgency In Hyper-wet Winter

Desalination began to lose its urgency among Californians and their public officials two years ago, after the drought-busting winter of 2016-17, when heavy rain and snow ended dry conditions in most of the state. The […]

Life and Arts September 5, 2019

Nektar Baziotis: From the EU to the Westside

A 17-country journey to create one of the Westside’s leading tech companies By Sam Catanzaro Nektar Baziotis has come a long way in his journey to being at the helm of one of the leading […]

News September 5, 2019

Santa Monica History: 90th Anniversary of Powder Puff Derby

Looking up at the skies of 1929 By Keldine Hull It was the summer of 1929. Twenty female pilots took to the skies in a transcontinental race from Santa Monica to Ohio in the First […]

News September 4, 2019

Two Santa Monica Residents Among Victims of Channel Islands Boat Fire

Community remembers Charles Mcllvain and Marybeth Guiney. By Sam Catanzaro Two Santa Monica residents are among the believed victims of the Conception boat accident. Authorities have recovered the bodies of 33 individuals who died in […]

News September 4, 2019

SMFD Beach Pilot Program Addresses Rising Call Volume

By Keldine Hull A new pilot program that stations Santa Monica firefighters and paramedics on the north end of the beach has already yielded positive results. Since the program launched in July, response times to […]

News September 4, 2019

Op-ed: We Are “Aces,” Not “Trumped”

By Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica City Councilmember A recent opinion piece in this paper compared local politics to Trump’s Washington. Given that Santa Monica is about as far from Trump’s Washington as one can get, […]

News September 3, 2019

Protections for Santa Monica Hotel Housekeepers, Expo Line Saftey: Santa Monica Beat This Week September 3, 2019

Santa Monica Beat This Week September 3, 2019 – all your local news in 5 minutes or less!*Protections for Santa Monica hotel housekeepers*Expo line safety? *Fourth death by suicide in Santa Monica parking structure Show made possible […]

Crime September 3, 2019

Man Charged for Yelling Anti-Semitic Slurs, Threatening Man and Infant in Santa Monica Park

Country prosecutors charge Cameron Brunson Blake By Sam Catanzaro Prosecutors have charged a man who shared links of a neo-Nazi organization for defacing a West Los Angeles synagogue and yelling anti-Semitic slurs at and threatening […]

News September 3, 2019

Union Sway Strong as Council Passes Sweeping Hotel Labor Regulations

Housekeeper protection, workload caps, retention security By Sam Catanzaro Amid of sea of red shirts, on Tuesday, August 27 Santa Monica City Council passed a sweeping set of regulations aimed at strengthening workplace safety and […]