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Community Voices: Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Weighs in on the Florida Shooting

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The following letter was sent by Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Ben Drati. Dear SMMUSD staff, parents and community members, Our hearts go out to the families and staff involved in yesterday’s tragedy at...

California Coastal Commission’s New Leadership: Fresh Breeze Promising Enhanced Partnership and Collaboration

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Via Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole's blog, The Long View. There is a dynamic and positive new tone coming from the California Coastal Commission. The California Coastal Commission has had just five leaders since it was...

Sprawl Repair

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This article originally appeared on Healthy City Local. here is one boulevard in Santa Monica that is so degraded that even people who rarely accept the idea that Santa Monica might stand to change for...

Downtown Santa Monica: Where It Doesn’t Take A Village (With Lots of Pictures!)

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The following post originally appeared on Healthy City Local. It’s back! The latest (and promised final!) version of Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan (DCP), is being dragged through the Planning Commission, with an ultimate destination of the...

Gruber: Is a Boot About to Drop at SMO?

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(This article initially appeared at The Healthy City Local) I became active in Santa Monica politics more than 20 years ago, and from the start of my involvement people told me that come 2015, the City...

Opinion: Three-Month Expo Bike Path Closure Offers Win-Win Safe Streets Opportunity

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A popular segment of the new Exposition Bike path will close for three months for maintenance. .  This long-term temporary closure provides an opportunity for Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin to pursue an easy...

Endorsement: Yes on GS and GSH

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(As we prepare for our pre-election party on Thursday, we're going to take a closer look at the other two ballot propositions on the ballot next Tuesday. - DN) Measure LV isn’t the only local...

Opinion: Is This SMRReally Happening?!

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Santa Monica Next received the following opinion piece with a specific request that we not use the writer's name. After a back and forth, we consented to publish it because the author feared reprisal,...

Santa Monica’s Sunset Park Is Mansionizing: What We Do about It Will Reveal What...

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Carter Rubin is a Santa Monica resident and serves as an advisory board member of Santa Monica Next. Carter has served as an appointed member on the Santa Monica Housing and Planning Commissions. Carter...

Community Voices: Santa Monica High School Principal Addresses Recent Student Death

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The following letter is by Santa Monica High School principal Dr. Antonio Shelton to the Santa Monica High School community regarding the recent death of a ninth grade student at the school. Dear Santa Monica High...

Community Voices: Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer on the Deaths of Three Young Community...

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The following is a letter from Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer addressing the recent deaths of three young people in the community.  I received the devastating news of the tragic circumstances that led to the...

Senate Bill 827, Equity, and the Need for Coalition Building in the YIMBY Movement

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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 Riel Politics: The Hueston Report

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Last fall I wrote a series of five articles (which start here) about the firing of Elizabeth Riel by the City of Santa Monica, in which I analyzed the documents and depositions that came...

Op/Ed: Santa Monica City Leaders Must Also Pay for Parking

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By Homa Motjabi. Mojtabai is a Massachusetts-bred, Santa Monica-based writer and public servant. Read more of her work at her website.  Parking is a hot topic in seemingly progressive Santa Monica – with a second reading and adoption...

Making Laws Fuzzy Doesn’t Make Politics More Clear

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This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. I’ve been traveling most of the past month, to places as far away as medieval Spain or as close as the contemporary music scene in Ojai....
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