Elections
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Council Candidate: Jon Mann
All candidates were given an opportunity to provide written answers to a set of questions provided by SMDP and two...
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Candidates crack $50,000 mark in latest campaign finance filing
Editor’s Note: This is the first of several stories on fundraising figures for the upcoming election. Candidates for local elections...
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Voter registration day
Election: The Santa Monica City Clerk’s office held a registration clinic outside City Hall on Tuesday to help unregistered residents...
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SMRR practices little ‘d’ democracy
By Michael Feinstein. Inside/Outside. Monday, September 19, 2022 Many of us were raised with the idea that the United States...
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Kurt Gonska appointed to fill vacant Rent Control Board seat
Kurt Gonska was unanimously appointed as an interim commissioner of the Rent Control Board last week to fill the spot...
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Police Union makes council endorsements
Santa Monica’s influential police union has released its endorsements for the year backing a similar, but not identical group, as...
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Council candidates start picking-up endorsements
Without the weather cues to mark the seasons, Californians track the passage of time via seasonal Starbucks drinks, custom candy...
Read moreRent Control Board race all but sewn up
With three seats up for grabs in this November’s Santa Monica Rent Control Board election and three candidates qualifying for...
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Two council candidates off to a fast start for campaign cash
Although 13 Santa Monica City Council hopefuls and eight prospective Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education members have...
Read more29 candidates file papers to run for local offices
The nomination period for local offices has officially closed with 13 individuals running for Council, three for Rent Control Board,...
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