Get Out and #VoteLocal, Santa Monica
Happy election day, Santa Monica! If you haven't already, we encourage you to find your polling place and cast your vote. It's vital that, in addition to voting in national and state races, that you...
Santa Monica’s Huntley Hotel Laundered Campaign Contributions, Fair Political Practices Commission Finds
The Huntley Hotel, one of the major players in anti-development politics in Santa Monica over the last six years, will have to pay more than $300,000 in fines after the California Fair Political Practices...
Coming Up: Santa Monica Braces for Long Drought, Election Day, and Santa Monica Talks
The Santa Monica City Council will consider raising water rates and implementing mandatory usage cuts on Tuesday as a response to California's ongoing drought; the bayside city will go to the polls next week...
No-Growth “L.U.V.E.” Initiative Qualifies for November Ballot
The so-called “Land Use Voter Empowerment” (L.U.V.E.) initiative, which would require a vote on nearly every new building over two stories, has qualified to be on the November ballot, Santa Monica Next has learned.
The...
SMVote.org Makes It Easy for SaMo to Vote Local
This year's election season promises to be a contentious one and a margin of a couple dozen votes could determine the course of the city's future for decades to come.
In order to make it...
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...
Son of LV? Santa Monica City Council Mulls Future Approach to Development
What will it take to end the divisiveness surrounding development in Santa Monica? That was the ostensible question underpinning the discussion at the Santa Monica City Council meeting early Wednesday morning.
Councilmembers Gleam Davis and...
Some Images from Saturday’s Marches Throughout California
This post originally appeared in Streetsblog California.
This last Saturday, you marched. You rallied. You marched in big cities. You rallied in other cities. It was a glorious day for Democracy.
Over the years, Streetsblog has noted the...
Decades of Sustainable Transit Advocacy Translate to Major Support for Santa Monica Mayor Reelection...
Election season 2014 may only be a couple days old in Santa Monica, but already Mayor Pam O'Connor, who is up for reelection this year, has announced major support from some of the region's...
Pizza, Art, and Vote Local
Hey! Our first Vote Local event is tomorrow and we hope you can make it! Join us at Bergamot Station for art, pizza, and a mixer, co-sponsored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa...
Gruber: Why Two Attack Campaigns Failed in Santa Monica’s Last Election
Editor's Note: Below is the next installment in a series about Santa Monica's recent municipal election by long-time political observer and former City Council candidate, Frank Gruber. This post originally appeared on his personal...
National Lobbying Group Likely Successful in Buying Ballot Access
Earlier today, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Organization front group "Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions" submitted 15,000 signatures to place an initiative on the fall ballot that would make any efforts...
Community Voices : Rev. Jim Conn Explains CLUE’S No on LV
By Rev. Jim Conn, Retired United Methodist Minister and Former Mayor of Santa Monica
The Santa Monica Committee of CLUE, Clergy and Laity United for Economic-Justice, opposes Measure LV on the Santa Monica ballot in November.
We urge...
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....
Long-Time SMRR Activist Judy Abdo Ousted from Steering Committee
Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the single most influential political organization in town, ousted one of its original activists -- and a member of more than 40 years -- from the organization’s steering committee...
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