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,...
Victory in the Air
Via The Healthy City Local
“Belts and suspenders.” That’s a phrase that we lawyers use to describe how we write contracts and other documents repeating the same concepts multiple times. (“Repeating” and “multiple times”—you see, belts...
Letter from the Mayor: Looking Back at the Last Six Months
We received the following letter from Mayor Ted Winterer asking us to pass along to our readers.
Summer is officially here and I am sure you’ve noticed the seasonal changes that take shape in our...
Editorial: To Help End Homelessness in Los Angeles County Vote Yes on H, Tell...
Every night, tens of thousands of people bed down in shelters, in their cars, or on the street. The causes are myriad. Some are homeless because of bad luck. Some are trying to escape...
No LUVE in Santa Monica: The Problem with Real Estate Referenda
The following post was authored and submitted by Bryan Schonfeld, a Ph.D student in Politics at Princeton University.
Last week, the United Kingdom voted, via referendum, to leave the European Union, harming its economy and much...
Op-Ed: Call to Action to Support SMMEF and Enriched Curriculum at Our Schools
The following letter was submitted by John Muir Elementary School PTA President Jessica Alexander. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of the city. Submitting your...
A Cyclist and a Motorist Talk
This post originally appeared in The Healthy City Local.
For about 20 years I’ve commuted by bike from my home in Ocean Park to my office in downtown Santa Monica. My route takes me north on...
The Downtown Community Plan and the Lingering Impacts of the Great Recession
The question I ended my post with on Saturday was why would Santa Monica enact a Downtown Community Plan (DCP) that makes it easier to build commercial development than housing? Keep in mind that...
Gruber : Preliminary Thoughts on Last Week’s Election
(Note : This article first appeared in the Healthy City Local. - DN)
Shell-shocked after the presidential vote, I’ve been slow putting my thoughts together on the local election. In fact, when analyzing local elections...
Rick Cole: Focus on Fixing Government, Not Bashing It
This piece was originally published on Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole’s blog, The Long View. Santa Monica Next also covered this issue here and here.
I recently wrote about the always controversial issue of public employee compensation. In...
Six Years of Process, and Then… Boom!
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
At the City Council meeting last Tuesday night on Santa Monica’s Downtown Community Plan (DCP) the ironies abounded. As planning staff has told us many times, the...
Santa Monica’s Long Municipal Nightmare
This piece originally appeared in The Healthy City Local.
For a liberal like me, it’s hard not to be cranky after Donald Trump’s TKO (i.e., Electoral College) defeat of Hillary Clinton. True, my mood was elevated...
Op-Ed: Silicon Beach Misses Chance to Curb Rising Rents
For being the envy of entrepreneurs the world over and the vanguards of the global economy, the tech superstars of Silicon Beachers are oddly oblivious to what goes on in their own backyards. Assuming,...
Editorial: The LUVE Initiative is No Way to Run A City
At the moment, there is a group of committed no-growth activists circulating a petition to put an initiative on the ballot that would effectively make it impossible to build anything over two or three...
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...
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