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...
Election Analysis: LV Lost Big, Bigger Than You Think
The following piece first appeared on The Healthy City Local.
I haven’t written here for a while. It’s easy for a little hiatus to become a long vacation, especially over the holidays, and especially, if you...
Santa Monica’s No on LV Campaign Earns 2016 Streetsie Award “Honorable Mention”
The campaign that soundly defeated the no-growth Measure LV this past November has been given the “Honorable Mention” nod in the 2016 Streetsie Awards category of “Advocacy Organization of the Year.”
The Streetsie Awards are...
Looking Back at the News Stories That Defined Santa Monica in 2016
This past year, Santa Monica continued to advance some very progressive policies aimed at sharing the city’s increasing prosperity with as wide a swath of residents, workers, and other members of the community as...
Santa Monica’s Rep. in the State Assembly Tapped to Head Budget Subcommittee on Sustainability...
For the fourth year in a row, Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) will chair the Assembly’s budget subcommittee that oversees spending on pressing environmental issues such as transportation and greenhouse gas reductions.
Bloom, a resident...
Fake News: Santa Monica Edition
For a city its size, Santa Monica has a robust media ecosystem of locally-focused print and digital news publications. With a population just shy of 100,000, Santa Monica boasts several print papers and two...
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...
Santa Monica’s Final Election Results Show Strong Support for Incumbents, Rejection of Ballot-Box Planning
The final vote counts for Santa Monica’s local elections are in, showing big wins for incumbents and an unambiguous rejection of the no-growth ballot initiative, Measure LV.
The final tallies, which were officially certified by...
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...
A Happy City in an Unhappy World
With election day nearly a week behind us the dust is beginning to settle and a clearer picture of the political landscape at the national, state, and local levels is emerging.
One thing is resoundingly...
Santa Monica, California. As the Nation Is Shocked, Santa Monica Stands Firm
Last night, the nation was shocked at the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. As more and more states turned red by a razor margin, the feeling among many...
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....
Check Out Our Non-Partisan Voter Guide from Last Week’s Vote Local Event
Last Thursday, Santa Monica Next held a non-partisan pre-election party that featured a voter guide listing endorsements on local, regional and state-wide ballot measures from over a dozen advocacy and news organizations including the...
Community Voices: When It Comes to Voting, the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not...
The following is a response from downtown community member Babak Mozaffari.
For voters in California, the first look at this November's ballot has often been accompanied by a sense of shock and horror. There are...
Is Armen Melkonians Running an Illegal Campaign? Is Terry O’Day? Is This Election Over...
Yesterday, Santa Monica Next covered the dueling legal opinions on Measure LV. Our conclusion was that at this point, it's nearly impossible for anyone to say for certain what the full impacts of Measure...
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