The longest-established news outlet to focus on Santa Monica is not a newspaper but the website Surf Santa Monica, which opened as The Lookout in 1999, a year to the day after the Santa Monica Outlook folded. Ex-Outlook investigative reporter Jorge Casuso, a former LA bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, began the site and edits it. Surf Santa Monica reporter Oliver Lukacs has been looking into the internal ruckus among Greens over a disputed $10,000 check given to Santa Monica city council member Michael Feinstein. The website, which operates from a small office on Pico Boulevard, has posted a five-part series following the check and the ensuing schism in the party. To read, start here then scroll down to Shades of Green.
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