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Santa Monica Next relaunched this week as a progressive non-profit news voice for a progressive city. Unlike its previous...
How To Bust A Housing Boom and A Housing Boon
This article originally appeared on Healthy City Local.
I’m sure readers are trembling with anticipation after I ended my last post with this cliffhanger: aside from drastically reducing the advantage that residential development in downtown Santa...
City Passes on Weighing In on Case Against Tennessee Ban on Gender Affirming Care...
At last week's City Council meeting, the Santa Monica City Council declined to file a brief in support of the plaintiffs in the case of Samantha Williams and Brian Williams v. Jonathan Skrmetti in...
SM Spoke and Safe Streets Alliance Urge Passage of Item That Would Lead to...
Note: the original letter to Council called for passage of Item 16-E at last week's meeting. Given that the item wasn't heard and was pushed forward to next week's meeting; I have updated letter...
Brock, de la Torre Respond to Next Piece Stating They Lied About Travel Budget...
At last night’s meeting of the Santa Monica City Council, Jason Mastbaum confronted Councilmember’s de la Torre, Negrete, Parra and Brock about their conduct at the July 25 City Council meeting where they maligned...
Not-Inspirational: More on the Downtown Community Plan
This was originally published on the Healthy City Local.
In my rant a few days ago I promised (threatened?) to come back with substantive analysis of the Downtown Community Plan (DCP), which the Planning Commission...
Tuesday’s Philibuster Foreshadows Future Council Gridlock
In advance of Tuesday’s meeting of the Santa Monica City Council, Councilmember Phil Brock placed two items on the agenda. By the end of the meeting the Council not only failed to consider either...
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...
Community Voices: Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Weighs in on the Florida Shooting
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...
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....
Bird Scooters: Public Nuisance or The Future of Transit?
The following post is by Kevin Herrera, sr. marketing & communication manager for Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. It originally appeared on Santa Monica Centric.
Downtown seems to be littered with them. On almost every street corner...
Opinion: Is This SMRReally Happening?!
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,...
When The Sky Isn’t Falling
This article was originally published on The Healthy City Local.
I’ve been mulling over an article I read in the Daily Press a couple of weeks ago. The article was about how the owner of Cars...
Gruber: Multiple Character Disorder
Editor’s note: This post first appeared in Healthy City Local. It is reprinted below with the author’s permission. Santa Monica Next welcomes guest contributions and editorials. We look for fact-based content relevant to the future of...
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...
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