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A Developing Story. — 266 episodes
Sam Stein - the Bulwark
A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 6: THE CRYSTAL BALL
A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 5: THREE PROJECTS
A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 4: THE $25 BURGER
A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 3: A BRUSH WITH DENSITY
A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 2: THE LOOPHOLE
A DEVELOPING STORY - EPISODE 1: THE NUMBERS GAME
Entertainment Zone
Olympic Volleyball - Unforced Error
Toxic Tide?
Fire waste disposal on the beach? Plus Din Tai Fung opening!
After the Fire: will local businesses survive?
Palisades Fire: Unforced Errors? Pickleball Brawls
Palisades Fire Conspiracy Theories
Palisades Fire price gouging
Palisades Fire Looting and updates
Palisades Fire burning
Incoming Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete
John Putnam for Santa Monica City Council
Ericka Lesley for City Council
Ellis Raskin for Santa Monica City Council.
Natalya Zernitskaya for Santa Monica City Council
Dan Hall for Santa Monica City Council.
Phil Brock about his run for Santa Monica City Council.
Barry Snell run for Santa Monica City Council.
Oscar de la Torre for Santa Monica City Council.
A crime by any other name
Moving the needle
Back to the real news
6 years old assaulted by a homeless man
Boys and Girls Club moving out
Last chance to vote for Most Loved!
Save the animals!
Who Do You Love?
Record rainfall
Man killed in shooting near Ocean Park Blvd.
It’s time for the Homeless Count
Long awaited transport van will tackle mental illness
Controversy at a commission
Welcome to the New Year
Eat, Drink and be Merry
Starbucks accused of squashing union efforts
SMC Under Investigation
REI is closing
Intersection accident
Affordable housing shortage undermines local zoning rules
New laws fight fake news
A real estate roundup and it’s Ice time in Santa Monica
SMC shoots for the stars
evacuation drill
bail rules
Civic
scooters
Security company - DTSM
5 Things - Car chase and Bank robbery
5 Things - Driverless Cars
5 things - Council infighting reaches new levels
5 Things - Council discord and zero bail
5 Things
City Efforts around Homelessness
5 Things
5 Things - 20 April
5 Things
5 Things
Supervisor lindsey Horvath
XXL development is coming to Santa Monica
5 Things
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Dean of Public Policy at New York University, Sherry Glied
5 Things
Ramon Batista
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Former Texas State Representative, Kyle Biedermann (R-TX)
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & U.S. Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-CA)
The Dive: RAND's CEO talks about the local research resource
The Dive: New leadership at DTSM
The Dive: Election results & analysis
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Wroclaw, Poland - Councilmember Michal Kurczewski, Part 2 of 2
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Wroclaw, Poland - Councilmember Bartlomiej Ciazynski
Reporter Notebook: Reporters are back.
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu
Reporters Notebook: School District Split
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Pete Peterson, Dean of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & Brian Dahle, the Campaign for Governor
School Board Interviews: Laurie Lieberman
Reporters' Notebook: Not about candidates
School Board Interviews: Angela DiGaetano
School Board Interviews: Alicia Mignano
School Board Interviews: Miles Warner
School Board Interviews: Esther Hickman
School Board Interviews: Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein
School Board Interviews: Stacy Rouse
Candidate interview: Samantha Mota
Candidate interviews: Troy Harris
Candidate interviews: Armen Melkonians
Candidate interviews: Caroline Torosis
Candidate interviews: Albin Gielicz
Candidate interviews: Ellis Raskin
Candidate interviews: Natalya Zernitskaya
Candidate interviews: Jesse Zwick
Candidate Interviews: Lana Negrete
Supervisor Candidate Lindsey Horvath
Reporters' Notebook: Oct. 1
Reporter's Notebook: Point A to point Pier
The Dive: Bob Hertzberg
Reporter's Notebook: I scream, you scream, smize cream?
The Dive: Who is Doug Sloan?
Reporter's Notebook: How do we keep from falling into homelessness?
Reporters Notebook: Welcome, Grace!
Reporter's Notebook: Homeless count results
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & California Senator, Ben Allen
The Dive: Meet the principals
Meyerside Chats: Evan Meyer & the BraverAngels - Randy Lioz & John Wood
The Dive: A review of Santa Monica
Reporter's Notebook: A healthy raise for educators
Reporter's Notebook: Gun control and political maneuvers
Reporter's Notebook: Farewell, Clara!
The Dive: Hope after a "hopeless" mental health diagnosis
Reporter's Notebook: What to do with a moldy school?
Meyerside Chats: David White
Pier 360 weekend
The Dive: Primary results
Reporter’s Notebook: Elections, graduation and the First Lady comes to town
The Dive: Primary preview
Reporter's Notebook: City seeking $$$
Albin Gielicz Helps Ukrainian Refugees
Reporter's Notebook: COVID ain't over
Reporter's notebook: ballots are out
The Dive: prosecuting misdemeanors
Reporter's Notebook: Homeless count results
Reporter's Notebook: One business closes, another one opens
Meyerside Chats: Chief Batista
Reporter's Notebook: One family's journey from Ukraine to Santa Monica
Reporter's Notebook: The truth behind the postal worker attacks
The Dive: In the scrum with the Dolphins
Reporter's Notebook: Is Santa Monica one of the most dangerous cities in California?
Meyerside Chats: Debbie Lee
Reporter's Notebook: Water, water everywhere
The Dive: Economic recovery and Most Loved businesses.
Reporter's Notebook: a sacrilegious theft
Lifesaving words: meet SMPD's Crisis Negotiation Team
News Brief: supporting Ukraine, election tension and a mystery solved
Introducing Fire Chief Danny Alvarez
Meyerside Chats with Lana Negrete
Meyerside Chats: Phil Brock
Police Chief Ramon Batista talks crime stats
Meyerside Chats: Gleam Davis
Candidate Interview: Traci Park for LA City Council
News Brief: Super Bowl in Santa Monica and mysterious dead birds on the beach
News Brief: recycling water, recall failures and protesting Snapchat
Meyerside Chats: Kathleen Rawson from Downtown Santa Monica
A new year and a new reporter
You must recycle your organic waste -- by law!
RAND Corporation CEO Michael Rich
City Manager David White
Police Chief Ramon Batista
Meet the Press Film Fest with Chuck Todd
How homelessness and crime killed Chess Park
Fighting the fentanyl crisis with former "Drug Czar" Jim Carroll
Catalytic Converter Thefts with SMPD Sargent Cody Green
The making of a Michelin
News Brief: vaccine mandate, homeless crisis and fresh baked bread
Splitting Santa Monica and Malibu Schools
Welcome new reporter Daniel Farr
Inside the Venice Beach encampment clean-up
Protest this weekend, bacon wrapped hot dogs, stormwater
Cecil Rhambo seeks to dethrone Sheriff Villanueva
Santa Monica City Councilmember Lana Negrete
Congressman Ted Lieu has a federal fix for homelessness
Bye Bye Brennon
News Brief: Housing and Jobs
It's a Shore Thing
News Brief: meetings, budgets and reporters like to eat.
Who is destroying Venice?
News Briefs: a roundup of the week's news in 10 minutes or less
The May 31st Riots: the after action report with Andrew Gumbel
Bonin Recall Organizers Heidi Roberts and Alan Resnick
Assemblymember Richard Bloom's platform for L.A. County Board of Supervisors
Final Voting for the Most Loved Business Contest
Policing the Homeless
State Senator Ben Allen on rethinking politics for 2021
Reopening Santa Monica Malibu Schools
Tales and challenges from the restaurant world
Andrew Gumbel from LA Magazine on the riots
Farmers Market Pro Jodi Low
5 stories from 2020
Making sense of new lockdown rules
Closing Outdoor Dining with Weak Data
Public Safety Reform in Santa Monica
Local Election Debrief
Returning Police Chief Jackie Seabrooks
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Gleam Davis : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Ana Jara : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Ted Winterer : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Tom Ciszek : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Oscar de la Torre : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Mario Fonda Bonardi : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Todd Mentch : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Chip Martin : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Terry O'Day : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Christine Parra : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Phil Brock : Santa Monica City Council
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Caroline Torosis : Santa Monica Rent Control Board
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Aishah Newson : Santa Monica Rent Control Board
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Robert Kronovet : Santa Monica Rent Control Board
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Anastasia Foster : Santa Monica Rent Control Board
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Rent Control Board Overview
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Jen Smith : SMMUSD Board of Education
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Keith Coleman : SMMUSD Board of Education
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Steven Johnson : SMMUSD Board of Education
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Esther Hickman : SMMUSD Board of Education
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Jon Kean : SMMUSD Board of Education
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Jason Feldman : SMMUSD Board of Education
VOTE LOCAL 2020 - Maria Leon Vazquez : SMMUSD Board of Education
Vote Local 2020 SMC Board of Trustess
Dr. Yariv Rothman of the Vitality Health Center
Homeless encampments, police and the legal system.
New rules for reopening, Laurel Rosen, CEO of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
How other cities are dealing with COVID, observations on homelessness
Democracy in Santa Monica? How we elect our City Council with Mike Feinstein, George Cardona and Gautam Duttta.
The state of retail, commercial rents, the Plaza, Introduction to Clara Harter.
Newly appointed City Council member Kristin McCowan
City Council Appointment
Santa Monica Brew Works
Mike Vaughan. Fireworks, DEVMO and Main Street.
The Juneteenth Episode. Mike Feinstein talks with Karen Gunn, Robbie Jones, Ashley London and Barry Snell about the Black Agenda in Santa Monica, what it means and what needs to change.
Main Street Promenade? Get ready for the new Main Street, with Hunter Hall from the Main Street Business Improvement Association.
Black Girls Surf organizes a worldwide paddle out. Talking with Alleanna Clark, a Persian American surfer and Amani Lawrence, a black local surfer about race, protests and what the protest represents
Town is still locked down, boarded up. Local protests come in all shapes, sizes and levels of organization. Some insight on what moved and failed this week.
The aftermath. A conversation with Chief of Police Cynthia Renaud and Interim City Manager Lane Dilg
Protesting, riots and looting. What the heck just happened?
Lane Dilg, Interim City Manager talks about layoffs and budget cuts.
Getting to know Lane Dilg, Interim Santa Monica City Manager.
Josh Loeb from the Rustic Canyon family of restaurants talks about tough decisions, rents, food supply and why people love dining.
The city budget crisis. This is when our city values get tested. Part 2 of a discussion with former Chief Sustainable Officer Dean Kubani and former Mayor Mike Feinstein.
Rick Cole, Santa Monica City Manager resigns. A discussion with former Mayor Michael Feinstein and former Chief Environmental Officer Dean Kubani
Pausing evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Eda Suh and Gary Rhoades from the City Attorney's office.
Patty Wong from the Santa Monica Libraries talks about services that are still operating during the pandemic.
A conversation with Police Chief Cynthia Renaud about the local response to COVID 19.
A conversation with Santa Monica Fire Chief Bill Walker about local coronavirus response.
A discussion with Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole about local response to the Coronavirus
The Coronavirus, local experts weigh in on education and containment.
California 50th Assembly Member Richard Bloom
Producer/Director Brian Falk talks about his new show, What's Eating America on MSNBC, and why bowling alleys are essential places in our social fabric.
Schools, Wine and Fundraising. A deep dive into the Education Foundation and the Wine Auction Fundraiser.
Buy Local and the Most Loved Contest. Why you need to vote for your favorite local business.
E-scooters and micro-mobility. The concept was born in Santa Monica, almost banned, and now beginning phase 2 of regulation. Here's what the City of Santa Monica is doing, and what the scooter companies have to say about it.
Recently Homeless Charlie, some street hacks and hustles. Part 2
This is what it's like to be homeless in LA. An interview with Charlie, who recently spent 2.5 years on the street.
The 2020 Homeless Count
The Gig Worker Bill AB5. How it's going to change and what it means for you.
Looking forward into 2020, what will be the hot topics of the coming year.
The most important reporting we did in 2019
The most read stories of 2019
It's Awards Season and Lael Lowenstein shares her picks, recommendations and whether we should be watching films on our phones.
Tis the Season for Flavor
Architect Greg Ginter discusses why it's easy to build here, neighborhood density and Santa Monica's architectural identity.
Crime reporting
Interview with State Senator Ben Allen
Interview with attorney Rob Lemle discussing surfing lawyers, dogs, scooters and accidents.
Restaurant Updates and an Introduction to new reporter Brennon Dixon
Are suicides a trend downtown? City wins AirBnB fight.
New buildings and business in Downtown Santa Monica
Promenade bomb threats and getting to know Senior Reporter Madeleine Pauker
Restaurant news, meet the editor, and the Great Cheeseburger Ramen debate.
School Vandalism, New Facilities, Lawsuits, and the Vanlord.
The Genesis of the Daily Press
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