SMRR: The More Things Don’t Change, The More They Remain The Same
This piece originally ran on The Healthy City Local.
As a member of Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR) I attended last Sunday’s annual membership meeting during which 11 members of SMRR’s Steering Committee were...
Santa Monica Airport: Going Environmental
This post originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It has been modified for timeliness and style.
When it comes to the Santa Monica Airport (SMO), what a difference a few years, a lot of...
A Review of “Save the Pier”: A Play Recounting the Fight to Stop the...
The following is a review of “Save the Pier,” a one-hour play recounting the grassroots fight in the early 1970s to stop the demolition of the Santa Monica Pier.
Let me be blunt – I...
Riel Politics, Part 4: Getting to $710,000
This article first appeared in the Healthy City Local. Click on the links for parts one, two, and three.
One question people keeping asking about the firing of Elizabeth Riel is why the City Council...
Riel Politics, Part 3: Going Beyond the Record?
The post originally appeared in The Healthy City Local.
In the wee hours last Wednesday, after a long City Council meeting dealing mostly with the crucial issue of the minimum wage, the council spent more than...
Raising the Wage
This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
Lately I’ve been writing about politics qua politics, namely the firing of Elizabeth Riel, but I’m going to take a break from that saga to write...
Riel Politics, Part 2: Free Speech and Politicians
Last week I ended my chronology of the firing of Elizabeth Riel by concluding, “there is no evidence from the record that Gould made his decision on orders from O’Connor or...
Riel Politics: the Firing of Elizabeth Riel, A Chronology
This post original appeared in The Healthy City Local.
I didn’t plan it, but on a de facto basis I’ve taken a month-long, late summer vacation from the life and times of Santa Monica. I...
Sprawl Repair
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...
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...
An Emerging Consensus on What to Build in Santa Monica?
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
After six years of communal agonizing over the LUCE and then another five spent on a new zoning code to implement the LUCE, is there finally...
SMO leases: City Council Steps Off the Track to Let the Train Pass By
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local.
Sometimes government—not unlike other aspects of life—can be simpler than expected, and anticlimax rules the day. Whimper rather than bang. This was the case with the City...
Rights and Remedies at Santa Monica Airport
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.
Time, tide and vacation wait for no man, and as it happened I was traveling the past two weeks when...
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,...
Opinion: Let Bike-Share Flourish in DTLA, Santa Monica, and Long Beach
Earlier this week, we ran an editorial by Assemblymember Richard Bloom with other Westside elected officials calling on Metro to "delay its decision" on a 1,000-bike bike-share system slated to open in downtown Los Angeles in early...
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