October 31, 2025
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To help Santa Monica voters better grasp these four initiatives

Now We’ll See What Transparency Can Do

By Tom Elias California will be exploring new ground as the impending election year builds to its climax in early November. For the first time ever, big donors to ballot proposition campaigns will not be […]

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What Kind of Man Misses Hefner?

By Steve Stajich   Back in the day, there was a slogan meant to define the ethos of Playboy magazine: “What kind of man reads Playboy?” While that question begged even more questions, such as […]

Tom Petty Music Sales Surge 6,216 Percent

As would be expected, sales of Tom Petty’s music exploded on Monday, when the music icon died of cardiac arrest at age 66 — and the increase was huge. According to BuzzAngle Music, which tracks […]

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Affordable Housing: Needed, But In What Form?

By Tom Elias   Everyone in California is at least peripherally aware of the state’s ever-worsening housing crisis: It’s hard to miss when prices have jumped by as much as 75 percent over the last […]

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SMa.r.t.-$76 million for Sustainable What?

By Phil Brock The Santa Monica City Council approved construction of a new “City Services Building” at its Aug. 8 Council meeting. As local media noted, “Council took very little time (25 minutes) to approve […]