The Past Isn’t Quite Dead Here, Either: How Racism Shaped Santa Monica
This piece originally ran on The Healthy City Local.
When Fay Wells went national to write, in the Washington Post, about what happened when a neighbor called 9-1-1 on her, she brought the issue of...
More Media Friendly Polls Reflect/Manipulate the Public Mood
It's been just over a month since the last "Pulse Poll" was conducted and released by the anti-union dark money organization "Eyes on 11." This newest poll shows "residents" doubted that a new city...
Gruber: Local Politics Is Personal Politics
This article appeared yesterday in The Healthy City Local.
Over the weekend my son Henry wrote a note to his Facebook friends explaining why he felt so personally threatened by the candidacy of Donald Trump....
Riel Politics, Part 5: When You Have A Process, Trust It
This piece originally ran on Frank Gruber's blog, The Healthy City Local.
My intention a month ago when I wrote my fourth installment of “Riel Politics,” my series of posts on the firing of Elizabeth Riel,...
The Downtown Community Plan On Its Final Stage
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
After, in words taken from the staff report, “nearly six years in development” (not too much longer than it takes to get approval to build an apartment...
LUVE: What We Don’t Need Now
This article first appeared on The Healthy City Local.
When voters submit an initiative to enact a law, Section 9212 of the California Elections Code authorizes the relevant legislative body to commission a report analyzing the...
Beginning the End at SMO
With the latest developments concerning the future of Santa Monica Airport (SMO), I’m willing to say that we’re at the beginning of the end. One way or another, the future of the airport will...
Hueston: You Have A Problem
In my post last week I wrote about certain aspects of John Hueston’s report to the Santa Monica City Council on the Elizabeth Riel firing and the Oaks Initiative. Last Tuesday evening Hueston presented...
Community Voices: Shawn Landres Says Yes on Measures GS and GSH
Whatever our politics, I think we all can agree that this election season has been exhausting. Anxiety, doubt, and fear are the messaging tools of the day, and in many cases for good reason....
A Taco Stand on the Corner in Santa Monica Is a Great Place for...
In the 2016 presidential election, a Trump surrogate promised a taco truck on every corner if Hilary Clinton won. This is one of many reasons I supported Hilary. However, as with most policy positions,...
U.S. Reps to FAA: Make Up Your Administrative Mind
This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
A few weeks ago U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Karen Bass organized a meeting in Washington where Santa Monica officials and local residents could express their grievances...
What Would Arcadia Do?
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
Let me begin my further ruminations and fulminations on the Downtown Community Plan (DCP) with a quibble, namely the failure to include in the DCP’s historical background...
Senate Bill 827, Equity, and the Need for Coalition Building in the YIMBY Movement
Last month, State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released a draft of his legislation, Senate Bill 827, which would upend zoning rules throughout California.
The bill, aimed at making it easier to build housing at...
More on Santa Monica’s DCP: Discretionary Review and Parking
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
As I’ve written in two recent posts, tomorrow night the Planning Commission will review the Santa Monica Downtown Community Plan (DCP). After staff makes revisions to the...
The SMO Settlement, Eternal Vigilance, and the Beginning of the End
Via The Healthy City Local
Procrastination can pay. For the past two weeks the top item on my to-do list has read, “Blog on SMO—read dox.” “Dox,” meaning the pleadings and briefs that have been...
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