(This story first appeared at Santa Monica Next.) For motorists, the California Incline was always a glorious and scenic way to journey between Pacific Coast Highway and the bluffs of Santa Monica along Ocean Avenue. Bicyclists and pedestrians who traveled the Incline, however, may not have such fond memories. The narrow, crumbling sidewalk that ran […]

A federal judge issued a harsh rebuke last week to Santa Monica’s legal efforts to wrest control of the city’s airport from the federal government. In a word: dismissed. As in, go home, your legal arguments carry no weight here. U.S.  Federal Court Judge John Walter’s ruling would seem like a tough blow to absorb for […]

Santa Monica’s new law regulating group exercise classes in city parks got its first full workout this week. From the looks of things Tuesday morning in Palisades Park, what some city officials hoped would be a fair method to manage fitness classes in city parks might be choking them off altogether. The clusters of kickboxers, […]