City To Undertake Extensive Airport Study
At Tuesday night’s meeting of the City Council, City staff will recommend that the Council “1. Direct staff to proceed with a comprehensive public process regarding the future of Santa Monica...
View ArticleSanta Monica Red Cross Fires Up “Spark of Love” holiday toy drive
Young volunteers from the American Red Cross of Santa Monica will collect toys and gifts again this year for needy children and teens as part of the annual “Spark of Love Toy Drive.” Red Cross...
View ArticleCITYTV “IMPROVES” STUDIO, BUT NOT PROGRAMMING
The December 14 City Council Consent Calendar included a $1,632,360 allocation for “improvements” to the new CityTV studio, for which the City paid $1 million-plus not long ago. The Council approved...
View ArticleTHE LESSONS OF THE 2010 ELECTION
by Peggy Clifford Anyone from anywhere can come into Santa Monica and set up a fake committee called “Santa Monicans for Quality Government,” though he’s not a “Santa Monican” and, as far as we know,...
View ArticleWhose College Is It, and Who’s It For?
by Carl Gettleman Richard Tahvildaran, who as President of the Academic Senate opposed giving course credit to students for serving as elected officers in the College’s shared governance system, was...
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Developers Threaten Santa Monica Way of Life
by Ty Wapato The 2010 City Council election is a vivid example of how big money developers distort the truth to impose their wills on the citizens of Santa Monica. The contemptible slate mailers that...
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PRESERVING OUR PALM TREES
To The Editor: As people have said how much they enjoyed the poetry about palm trees that I sent out over the summer as part of our effort to preserve palm tree streetscapes on several Santa Monica...
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ESTHER McCOY EXHIBITION OPENS
“Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design,” the first exhibition to present the life and work of McCoy (1904-1989), opens Wednesday, September 28,...
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Our Boulevards- dark tunnels or sunlit paths to the sea?
Cities are entered and organized around their major boulevards. The 9 boulevard entrances to our City are San Vicente, Wilshire, Santa Monica, Broadway, Colorado, Olympic, Pico, Ocean Park and...
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