• Early election results favor progressive candidates

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    SMDP Photos Preliminary Santa Monica election results showed Caroline Torosis, Jesse Zwick and Lana Negrete in the lead for city council and incumbents leading the school board race, but results were too early to call by press time. The LA County Registrar ...
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  • Parents invited to fentanyl town hall Thursday

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The local school district is hosting a town hall for parents this week to warn of the dangers of fentanyl amid the ongoing crisis in California, in an effort by […]
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  • Heat, humidity and COVID protocols reveal need for AC repair work in District

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    When high temperatures hit Santa Monica this September, the School District’s air conditioning technicians were overwhelmed as cooling systems at multiple school sites required urgent service, prompting the District to
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  • Veterans Day Celebration to Be Held November 11

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The City of Santa Monica joins the U.S. Army for a Veterans Day commemoration on Thursday, November 11 at 11 a.m. on the western half of the Santa Monica Pier […]
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  • American Film Market proves life goes on

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The American Film Market was in town last week. They did their usual takeover of the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel for offices. It was a bit more intimate this […]
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  • USPS on hiring blitz in Santa Monica

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Santa Monica hiring push is part of regional efforts to staff local post offices before the holiday rush. Post offices in Santa Monica and across Los Angeles are moving quickly to take on new ...
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  • Election Day arrives with few ballots already returned

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Vote Centers will open one final time Tuesday morning, welcoming voters to cast ballots in time to be counted for the 2022 midterm elections. This is your last chance to […]
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  • Santa Monica’s ‘builder’s remedy’ experiment holds lessons for the region

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    It’s in coastal communities like Santa Monica that this lack of housing production is most acute. From 2014 and 2018, for example, Santa Monica issued permits to build just 12 multifamily units ...
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  • Feinstein is wrong

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The current situation is not residents’ or the Santa Monica City Council’s fault. It is the direct result of overreach by the State, which is imposing a mandate on municipalities that the ...
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  • Behind an aquacultural revolution: SMC & AltaSea developing program to create Blue Economy

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Grace Smith Special to the Daily Press It shouldn’t come as news that greenhouse gases and other pollution, as well as overfishing, seriously threaten our oceans’ ability to sustain life. […]
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  • Council moves to further restrict outdoor smoking

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Public spaces where smokers can puff away continue to go up in smoke. Over the years, Santa Monica has sought to restrict the places where lighting up is allowed, placing […]
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  • Ordinance to protect private trees could be considered in Santa Monica

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    SMDP Photo More than a month after nine trees in the North of Montana neighborhood were illegally and harmfully pruned in an act of what Santa Monica Public Landscape Manager Matthew Wells has called “vandalism,” several residents of neighboring homes ...
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  • District reports progress on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have long been topics of discussion in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD), but, for many years, Executive Director of Elementary Schools Steve Richardson said efforts to improve in this arena have ...
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  • Bruno’s legacy to live on post retirement

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Pantaleone Bruno came to California from Italy in 1975 as a young man with a dream of being a chef and creating his own restaurant. In 1986 he did just […]
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  • Questions persist about aid involved in $45 million settlement

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District has said ongoing legal concerns prevent it from answering questions about the employment status of Galit Gottlieb while the district considers whether to appeal the recent judgment. Last month, a jury said ...
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  • Emergency preparedness front-of-mind at Samohi

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The bomb threat came in to Samohi at 11:46 a.m. on Thursday.  That call triggered a series of actions by teachers, campus staff, district administrators and the Santa Monica Police […]
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  • An Opinion About Opinions

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The piece states, “As an example, the owner of a home in Santa Monica or Malibu assessed at a value of $1 million will pay $900 a year for the bond,” but this is in direct contradiction to an ...
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  • Careful When Getting the Mail

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    One case involved Synanon here in Santa Monica, a so-called drug rehab founded by Charles Dederich. He may have started with good intentions but power and money (estimated as high as $30 million ...
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  • Transparency at PACs

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    And why is a Glendale dentist so interested in the Santa Monica-Malibu school board race?
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  • Healing our wounded School District

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    My name is Wendy Dembo. I am a Santa Monica resident and my daughter attends SAMO. Last year, she applied to and was accepted to Windward, Archer, and Crossroads. But I believe in public education.
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