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Four candidates seek two open seats on the Rent Control Board

10/26/2016 7:36 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Name: Elaine Golden-Gealer

Age: Youthful

Occupation: Nonprofit Association Executive and Gadfly

Neighborhood of residence: North East Santa Monica

Torosis talks local rent control

10/26/2016 7:32 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Meet the Candidates of this years Election

“I think there is a lot that could be done at the local level, we really need to ensure that we are maintaining and returning local control to Santa Monica to make decisions about when units can be removed from the rental market.”

See video: http://smdp.com/torosis-talks-local-rent-control/158350

Foster talks landlords and rent control

10/26/2016 7:29 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Meet the Candidates of this years Election

“We need to make sure that landlords have all the tools they need to maximize their returns. That’s what measure GA is designed to do, that’s what the incremental steps up in rents are designed to do.”

See video: http://smdp.com/foster-talks-landlords-and-rent-control/158352

Melkonians talks residents of Santa Monica

10/26/2016 7:27 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Meet the Candidates of this years Election

“I think the focus of city council should be to represent the residents. I think we should start focusing on residents that’s what we need to do today and that’s why I am running for City Council.”

Torosis talks affordable housing

10/26/2016 7:24 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Meet the Candidates of this years Election

See video: http://smdp.com/torosis-talks-affordable-housing/158386

Observer Announces Election Endorsements for 2016

10/25/2016 11:37 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

RENT BOARD: Elaine Golden Gealer: A local realtor who will bring balance to the board, and an adult, business oriented perspective.

Tom Hayden, Former Radical and Father of Santa Monica Rent Control, Dies at 76

10/24/2016 1:05 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

If you've spent the last 40 years living in a rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica, you can thank Tom Hayden for it. He wrote the City's rent control charter amendment, enacted by the voters in 1978.

Santa Monica City Council Elections: Meet the Candidates

10/21/2016 12:19 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

In the lead up to Santa Monica City Council elections, November 8, Santa Monica Mirror will host a 90-minute question-and-answer debate with at the Ken Edwards Center, Wednesday, October 26 at 6:30 p.m. Measure LV will also be debated.

Opinion: SMa.r.t. The Alchemy Of Greed

10/21/2016 12:11 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Opinion: Our City is experiencing an identity crisis fueled by gluttony. The powers in the City of Santa Monica have apparently decided that bigger is better and that that this “bigger” needs to be fueled constantly by more…more development, taller and denser buildings, structures that are out-of-scale with our town…more people…more tourists…more workers…more residents.

City collecting new data to augment Wellbeing Index

10/21/2016 9:59 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The City of Santa Monica gained numerous new insights about its residents — their needs, their experiences, their feelings — through the much-publicized Wellbeing Index. But the project isn’t over.

Officials are now collecting a second round of data to augment the grant-funded study, hoping to delve deeper into certain trends and target specific issues with better precision.