Today is Last Day to Register to Vote for the November 4 Election
Today is the final day to register to vote in California for those who want to participate in the November 4 election. This upcoming election is critical for the future of our city, with three City Council...
The Rest of the Week: Planning Commission Talks Zoning, Picnic on the Promenade, Memorials...
The primary election is over and the results are in. Republican Elan Carr finished with 21.5 percent of the vote in the race to replace Henry Waxman as Congressional District 33's representative. In November, he'll...
Fact Checking Arguments for Repealing the Gas Tax
Proponents of Prop 6, which would repeal the recently passed gas tax increase, S.B. 1, want people to support their proposition, of course. They’ve put together a handy list of six reasons to vote yes...
Pizza, Art, and Vote Local
Hey! Our first Vote Local event is tomorrow and we hope you can make it! Join us at Bergamot Station for art, pizza, and a mixer, co-sponsored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa...
Vote No on Prop 6: The Campaign Is an Incoherent and Childish Effort to...
If you follow national politics, you doubtless know the name “Devin Nunes,” even if you are not a resident of his Central Valley Congressional District. Nunes, the Congressional Consigliere for the Donald Trump legal...
Vote Local: Help Us, Help You…We’re Compiling Endorsements on Ballot Measures from SaMo Community...
Honestly, the headline pretty much says it all. I'm asking all of our readers to crowdsource our election coverage.
As part of our Vote Local campaign, we're compiling the endorsements for ballot measures (both for...
Next Endorsements : Yes on SMS, No on SM
(Note: The Santa Monica Next Steering Committee only makes endorsements when there is unanimous opinion on a ballot measure. We do not endorse political candidates.)
Santa Monica Next urges voters to support ballot measure SMS...
Next Endorsements : Yes on County Measure W
Santa Monica Next and Streetsblog L.A. have endorsed the L.A. County Measure W which would enact a parcel tax to raise funds for clean water. Next urges readers to vote Yes on W.
Measure W...
This Fall’s Ballot Starting to Take Shape. Term Limits Proposal Likely on the Ballot.
Yesterday, organizers submitted over 19,000 signatures to place a term limit proposal on this fall's ballot for the City of Santa Monica. The initiative, if passed by a majority of voters, would limit the...
Vote Local Guide: Prop. 69
There are five statewide propositions on the spring primary ballot that voters will decide tomorrow. As with most ballot box measures, there are also campaigns underway to muddy the issues and confuse voters.
Of those...
To the Polls…
Tomorrow is the end of another long election season. I think it was roughly four hundred ninety seven days ago that candidates could "pull papers" and announce their intention to run for office in...
Santa Monica in 2018: Are All Politics Still Local?
The following post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
(Note: I haven’t written here about Santa Monica politics since my last blog last summer on the Downtown Community Plan, but I was invited to give...
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