SMMUSD HDQTRS — There are no sacred cows. People will lose their jobs. Staff laid out the grim budget reality to the Board of Education at a special meeting Saturday that proposed trimming $2 million a year out of the district’s expenditures, primarily through reductions in staff and faculty and inc
Re: “Stop special interest money,” The Taxman, Feb. 15, page 5. Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association — who makes his healthy living (last reported to be $300,000 annually) fundraising, concealing, and dispensing special interest money through what the Sacramento Bee calls “a sophist
CITYWIDE — Santa Monica businesses are expecting improved sales after several years of decreased revenues, according to a survey of businesses participating in a local purchasing campaign.
There’s evidence that City Hall’s housing policy of placing low/mid-income family public housing projects primarily in the Pico neighborhood (east of Lincoln Boulevard and west of Centinela Avenue between Pico and Santa Monica boulevards) is a major factor in maintaining racially imbalanced schools
Building your own burger is no longer a novel concept amongst some of the better griddles here in town. Marking off a checklist to customize your burger’s, bun, patty, and toppings, is certainly a fun and interactive way to chow down.
CITY HALL — A new city law working its way through the system will require events that attract more than 75 people on the Third Street Promenade to have a special permit, a move that may have implications on nonprofit work on the public street.
The Rosie’s Girls Spring 2012 Challenge is going to be all about teamwork. Between April 9 and 13, 2012, veteran Rosie’s Girls will take fifth grade girls to introduce them to the Rosie’s Girls experience in the City Maintenance Yards at 2500 Michigan Ave.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Students and parents rallied at Thursday’s Board of Education meeting in support of a popular photography teacher who left his class after controversial student photographs were found on a school server.
Santa Monica College student Anthony Cloyd has qualified to compete for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival’s national competition in the nation’s capital.
CIVIC CENTER — With the flourish of a marker and a sigh of relief, city officials and executives from developer Related Cos. “broke ground” Thursday on a $350 million housing project some eight years in the making.
CITY HALL — After long negotiations, the Planning Commission secured a living wage provision for a new luxury hotel, one that potentially sets a precedent for future hotel development in the city.
CITY HALL — Would-be restaurateurs will soon see their options expand after the City Council approved unanimously a zoning change to permit more than one restaurant per block on a section of Main Street.
