June 21, 2026
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Santa Monica City Council has approved conceptual plans for 12 additional acres to the current 9-acre Airport Park.

Hybrid SMO Park Gets Go-Ahead:

Santa Monica City Council has approved conceptual plans for 12 additional acres to the current 9-acre Airport Park. The feasibility and concept phase led by Rios Clementi Hale Studios (RCHS) resulted in a recommended concept adding two new multi-purpose fields for a variety of users, amenities for all ages, and a connection to nature.

“The City has determined that $3,022,305.44 was spent on legal fees involving the FAA and airport law suits over the past 10 years,” Brigette Garay, Public Records Coordinator at the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office told The Mirror.

City vs FAA =$3,022,305.44:

The ongoing legal battles between the City of Santa Monica, on a mission to close Santa Monica Airport (SMO), and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), on a mission to keep it open, has long been […]

SMO Views on August 23 Vote:

Letter to the Editor: There’ll be a real test of the strength of local democracy when our council meets on August 23rd to vote on their next moves for Santa Monica Airport.

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Letting Go of SMO:

Full Disclosure: Columnists are rarely experts. With today’s technology-intensive lifestyles, there are people who write columns in tech publications who can actually give you some useful advice on how to improve the speed of your computer. But alas, like most of us, I’m just an observer albeit one that has the privilege of weighing-in once a week in this newspaper on things that seem to matter. That said, you should also know I love airplanes. My father was a pilot when I was a kid and there was nothing that topped taking a ride with him in a single-engine Cessna on a Sunday afternoon.

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"The Language of Landscape" at the Annenberg:

The Language of Landscape, a new exhibition featuring works in various media by southern California-based artists Christine Nguyen, Pam Posey, John Dembski and Melissa Huddleston, is holding an opening Tuesday, August 9.