• Student advocates loom large in SMMUSD shift to renewable energy

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    On May 1, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) hosted a “Plugging In” ceremony to commemorate a switch back to renewable energy sourcing, a movement spurred in large part by student activists at Santa Monica High School. On the rooftop ...
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  • After losing population in recent years, California is starting to grow again. Is that a good thing?

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    After Jerry Brown became governor of California for the first time nearly a half-century ago, he declared that the state had entered “an era of limits.” Citing “sluggish economic growth, increasing social instability,
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  • Captain sentenced to four years following boat fire in 2019 that killed 34

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The captain of the charter boat MV Conception that caught fire during the night and killed 34 people on board near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day 2019 was sentenced to four years in prison for gross negligence on Thursday.
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  • Conception captain sentenced to four years following 2019 boat fire that killed 34

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The captain of the charter boat MV Conception that caught fire during the night and killed 34 people on board near Santa Cruz Island on Labor Day 2019 was sentenced to four years in prison for gross negligence on Thursday.
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  • Housing and homelessness drive quality of life to the lowest levels in years

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    There’s been an uneasy feeling across the region about the state of housing and that has become tangible in the answers of a recent survey.
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  • Cirque homecoming, a decade in the making, set for October

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The Santa Monica site crucial in launching a worldwide circus revolution will once again host the high-risk acrobatics known across the globe.
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  • AI use by businesses is small but growing rapidly, led by IT sector and firms in Colorado and DC

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The rate of businesses in the U.S. using AI is still relatively small but growing rapidly, with firms in information technology, and in locations like Colorado and the District of Columbia, leading the way,
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  • LA quality of life is at a record low, survey shows. Why political leaders shouldn’t ignore that

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The findings of this year’s Los Angeles Quality of Life Index, an annual survey conducted by UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, pose a riddle for city and county leaders – and underscore the challenges of local officials everywhere: How should officeholders react when their constituents are angry at them for problems that they didn’t
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  • How did we get a night of violence at UCLA?

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. Encampments at a growing number of universities across the state and nation are sparking battles between students’ free speech and campus policies against trespassing and obstructing ...
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  • California politicians face rampant threats. Some want to use campaign cash for protection

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    Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. “The one that I’ll probably forever remember is a suggestion that my fiancé and mother should be human trafficked so that I understand how serious this is — which, for a legislator ...
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  • Mediterranean culinary experience celebrates first year on Ocean

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    It’s been one year since the Ocean Ave. dining scene was taken to the Mediterranean, and the occasion brought out local stakeholders in the business community. On Tuesday, Mon Ami at 1541 Ocean Ave celebrated its one-year anniversary with a ribbon cutting ceremony alongside the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce,
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  • Around Town: Cinco de Mayo Weekend

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Our weekly guide to food and entertainment goings-on in and around town includes Cinco de Mayo on the Promenade, Bike Month events and much more. Accidentally Wes Anderson photography exhibition: The exhibition arrives in Santa Monica after stops in Seoul,
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  • From music to mortgages, Winston Bernard Cenac Jr. dies at 73

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Santa Monica resident and realtor extraordinaire Winston Bernard Cenac Jr. passed away on January 22, 2024 at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, aged 73. Despite some significant health-related setbacks early in life,
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  • Music in the crystal shop

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    They did, maneuvering rapidly among powerful passages. It may be the best Bartók I’ve ever heard. Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. I was also unacquainted with pianist Inon Barnatan, but he tamed Mozart’s difficult ...
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  • Families take part in Virginia Avenue Park ‘robot invasion’

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Robots: Santa Monica families dove deep into the local arts scene this past weekend with a technological twist. On April 27, Virginia Avenue Park hosted the 2024 Arts & Literacy Festival, the 10th festival held by the City of Santa Monica in collaboration ...
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  • UCLA cancels classes after violence erupts on campus over the war in Gaza

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment.
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  • Opinion: Real solutions in DC or Vienna?

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    Some talk about Santa Monica having compassion. How compassionate is it to let people who cannot care for themselves live on the streets?
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  • City officially unveils first, fully-functional street-placed Wayfinder kiosk

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The first Wayfinder kiosk has been officially unveiled on the southeastern corner of the Wilshire Blvd and 4th Street intersection and as the foam padding was removed, it instantly attracted a small crowd of passers by.
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  • Real solutions in DC? Or Vienna?

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    HAVE I GOT A STORY FOR YOU A true story. A scary story. It happened to me, not long ago. It involves going to the Ron DeMented state of Florida (scared yet?), a German Shepherd the size of a small horse,
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  • US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana in historic shift, but it’ll remain controlled substance

    Santa Monica Daily Press
    The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.
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