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
Six years ago, the Creek Fire tore through the Sierra National Forest. Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee with almost no warning, leaving their homes with only
All politicians are, to some extent, chameleons who align their personas with the prevailing moods of the voting public.
That can be tricky in an era of extreme political volatility,
Americans recently marked the nation’s semiquincentennial — 250 years since a band of revolutionaries staked everything on the idea that a people could govern themselves.
Anniversaries invite us to look
If you have a small business, you probably advertise on one of Meta’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others). There are other ways to advertise, like putting an ad
Californians have consistently invested in new government programs. Over the past quarter century, voters have approved tens of billions of dollars in state bonds to build schools, improve water systems,
Following years of NIMBY driven project rejection at the local level, the development industry, academics and millennials, who’ve increasingly been shut out of the state’s housing market by
By Mabel Tsang, Special for CalMatters
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California voters will decide the fate of a proposal that speeds up
Santa Monica threw itself a party last week. For the second year in a row, the State of the City speech was delivered outdoors as part of a festive celebration.
Last Wednesday should have been a fairly routine meeting for the Santa Monica Democratic Club. Members were meeting on Zoom to vote on endorsements in the November local elections, and
Santa Monica hosted its COAST open streets event last weekend alongside World Cup watch parties on the Third Street Promenade, and while the day produced some roaring goals, it also
