(Updated as of Sunday Evening, April 26, 2020, revising death and confirmed cases since published print version, Friday, April 24, 2020)   By Julie A. Werner-Simon, former federal prosecutor & Fellow, Constitutional Studies at Southwestern Law […]

The days are in slow motion now, as one day blends into the next. In a city where time now stands still, is the stillness of our streets something to celebrate or revile? While our […]

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” Maya Angelou ~ We are facing a grave danger, one that we cannot see nor touch. And because […]

The following is a letter sent by Lauralee Asch, a 29-year (retired) City employee and former labor leader, to Santa Monica City Council in the wake of reports that a large number of public employees […]

By Mayor Kevin McKeown and City Manager Rick Cole Both Governor Newsom and County public health officials have emphasized: This is the week to stay home! We know that the next few weeks are critical […]

We enter another weekend of “don’t.” Don’t use our parks, don’t go to the beach, don’t walk on a mountain trail, don’t congregate in groups, and most certainly, don’t cough or sneeze within six feet […]

As of the end of last year, California’s budgetary rainy day fund amounted to about $20 billion. That sounds like a lot, and the last two governors both put more cash than legally required into […]

The news keeps coming, and almost all of it is bad. We are alive during a once-in-a-century calamity, one with potentially catastrophic results for so many of us. Social distancing is the new normal, and […]

Now that circumstances are forcing us to take a temporary break from life as usual, we have a chance to sit back and re-evaluate what the city is all about, what is truly important for […]