November 13, 2025
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Opinion: SB 9, 10: The Rebellion Begins

By Tom Elias, Columnist It was inevitable from the moment Gov. Gavin Newsom in mid-September signed this year’s two most important housing bills into law: There will be a rebellion. Not only did poll numbers […]

Rare Approval of a New Hotel in Malibu

Sea View Hotel given thumbs up By Dolores Quintana The City of Malibu has given rare approval to a new hotel along Pacific Coast Highway.  Malibu will have a new hotel at 22729-22741 Pacific Coast […]

Sacto Dems Dump Prop. 13 Reforms

By Tom Elias, Columnist For more than 40 years, Democrats in Sacramento have talked fervently about reforming the 1978 Proposition 13 and some of its landmark limits on property taxes, but time and again they’ve […]

Bel Air Mega-Mansion The One Focus of Legal Battle

The One pulled from Los Angeles Superior Court  foreclosure sale By Dolores Quintana An infamous mega mansion in Bel Air continues to be at the center of a lengthy legal battle.  As reported by the […]

SMa.r.t. Column: The Magic of Adaptive Reuse

They say that every seven years all the cells in your body renew themselves. Likewise, seven years ago SMart published this article about adaptive reuse which, as is typical of our many topics, is still […]