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Santa Monica Promenade Visitor Surge: DTSM Charts New Direction (opens the original)
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Last Thursday night, the Third Street Promenade was bustling with people, providing visible evidence of the progress being reported at the Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM) board meeting. “What I see anecdotally with my own two eyes is there is just a lot of people enjoying the late summer here,” said Debbie Lee, the CEO of DTSM, who oversaw a productive meeting that included a report on the future of the Promenade, the swearing in of Council-appointed board members, executive elections, and co
Santa Monica Council Accountability in Turbulent Times (opens the original)
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The President of our country has said that Canadians are “nasty people” who have been “taking advantage of the United States for a long time.” In 1999, proposing war with Canada was so preposterous that it was the farcical plot of the first South Park movie. Now it’s a Tuesday. Whether or not the President has a grudge against hockey sticks and poutine is anyone’s guess. Perhaps when you fantasize you’re a fighter jet pilot, everything looks like a shooting target. Just in the past week, the adm
Separate and unequal (opens the original)
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Distraught residents lined up to speak at City Hall last Tuesday about a threat to their homes, not from a natural disaster but from California Senate Bill 79 (SB 79). However, the Council meeting had been canceled. Instead, it was members of the city’s community development team listening to anguished pleas and offering the kind of thorough explanations and gracious empathy frequently missing from the Council chambers. The city staff on the dais had distinct advantages over council members. If
Santa Monica Council's Cycle of Mistakes and Quick Fixes (opens the original)
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Recently, the City Council called a special meeting to rescind an ordinance they had just passed at their previous meeting. This isn’t the first time this year they’ve held a special meeting to do damage control or walk back previous votes, which is making them resemble the gang that can’t shoot straight, except they’re more like the gang that shoots first and asks questions later. The latest blunder was over a charter amendment, intended to protect rent control tenants, particularly elderly ten
Outcry Over Federal Investigation of California Coastline Authority (opens the original)
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More than 300 residents and civic leaders from across the state showed up on August 10 to defend California’s coastline from a threat of federal interference during a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hearing (NOAA) at the Hilton Santa Monica. The hearing was one of three public meetings that are part of an unprecedented off-cycle review of the California Coastal Commission and other coastal management agencies, which partner with the federal government through the Coastal Zone Man
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