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...
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...
Moving Goal Posts and New Players: The Plight of Anti-Development Politicians
When it comes to the goals of the anti-development side, as soon as one goal is achieved, a new, more extreme goal is created.
After Tuesday night’s City Council meeting Councilmember Sue Himmelrich might understandably...
Housers, United By LUVE
This article originally ran on The Healthy City Local.
The proponents of LUVE know that they have a problem politically with the housing issue. In their statements and writings in support, they deny that LUVE...
Making Laws Fuzzy Doesn’t Make Politics More Clear
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....
Review: The Expo Phase II Bike Path Is Going to Be Great…
…if they every finish it.
Advocates for a bicycle path to run parallel to the recently-opened Phase II o the Expo Light Rail Line have long-contended that the Exposition Construction Authority viewed the fully-funded separated...
Community Organizing Wins the Day: Skills and Enthusiasm of Many to Build Expo for...
This post was written by Kathy Seal, co-chair of Friends4Expo Transit and was originally published on Streetsblog Los Angeles.
Behind the May 20 opening of the Expo Line to Santa Monica lies the untold story...
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...
LUVE’s Labour’s Lost
Residocracy wants to reduce traffic—the time price of accessing Santa Monica—by limiting the number of people who live here. That’s like trying to reduce the cost of the box seats behind home plate by...
More Riel Politics: The Hueston Report
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...
Editorial: Santa Monica College Bond Should Include Money for Student Housing
Last week, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported that the Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees is considering its own ballot initiative to be placed on the fall ballot. The $295 million bond...
A Note on Next’s Opposition to the LUVE Initiative
There has been a lot of discussion about a meme we posted last week as part of our editorial encouraging Santa Monica residents not to sign the petition to put the LUVE proposal on this fall’s...
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...
About Maynard and Sheila Ostrow
The following piece was co-authored by Ernie Powell, former community organizer at the Church in Ocean Park and founding member, Santa Monica Pier Restoration Corporation and Sharon Gilpin, 26-year former resident, former Santa Monica Planning...
The Santa Monica Civic: The Beat Goes On, And On
This article originally appeared in The Healthy City Local.
At its meeting tomorrow evening the Santa Monica City Council will once again consider how to save the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Specifically, it will consider recommendations...
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