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, […]

Our Country is in crisis- on both the national and local level. In both instances, the populace is polarized and feels marginalized by politicians whose job it is to represent us and not their own […]

By Candace Fernandez  To the general population, poverty seems an insurmountable task, for we’ve convinced ourselves our impact lacks power in the face of its immensity. Even in those rare times, when we’ve found ourselves […]

California voters have often made it clear they don’t much care for efforts by the state to interfere with free markets in housing. Despite some public polls showing support for denser housing and rent controls, […]

While in the process of remodeling my studio, complete with many drawings and papers in storage boxes, I came upon one box marked “Main St ’81”.  So what to do but open it, and explore […]

Submitted by Danielle Charney POD (Preserve Our Diversity), is a program created to address the needs of very low and low-income senior’s living in rent-controlled housing for at least 20 years, in Santa Monica. The […]

This is a follow up to our recent articles which discussed the effects of design on our environment, our culture, heritage and economy.  Santa Monica’s temperate beachfront environment attracts corporate and off-shore investment dollars that […]

Good morning Santa Monica! In last week’s article we discussed what and who controls our city. It’s not the city council and certainly not the residents – it’s technology, corporate capitalism and their hired developers. […]

Following residents’ longstanding concerns regarding mansionization and neighborhood character, the city is reviewing development standards in the R-1 single-family areas, which incidentally represents about one-half of our city’s total area. This led me to a […]