Jenna Chandler is the editor of Santa Monica Patch (read her introduction to the site here). She studied journalism at Chapman University, where she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, <i>The Panther</i>, and interned in the newsroom at the <i>Orange County Register</i> and NBC News Los Angeles. In 2008, she was distinguished as the Register's Outstanding Student Journalist of the Year.
Jenna joined Patch in October 2010 as the editor of San Juan Capistrano Patch after covering crime and government at the <i>Porterville Recorder </i>in California's Central Valley. There she built a portfolio of stories that had resounding effects in the community, including a series that forced the City Council to reallocate thousands of dollars in misspent funds, and a weeklong report on public-sector salaries that led to the resignation of a city manager.
When she's not working, you'll find Jenna perusing record stores for Neil Young vinyl, eating pizza and hiking.
The 244-foot wavy white tower is proposed on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. A 261-foot Art Deco hotel and condo tower is proposed one block north at Wilshire Boulevard.
Traffic engineers are shaking up their approach to managing the tens of thousands of people who park in downtown Santa Monica for the L.A. Marathon.
Transportation fees approved this week by the City Council could pay for about 40 percent of the street and transit improvements planned in the next 20 years.
The width of the northern sidewalk on the old pier bridge will double.
The city should require developers to provide scale models of their proposed projects.
The overnight standoff with police on Delaware Avenue ended in an apparent suicide.
Dan Rice, former president of the California Historic Route 66 Association, says he will "unwrap the mystery" Sunday at a talk at the Santa Monica Main Library
Police say the man shot himself after a standoff that began when the man allegedly took his mother-in-law and son hostage Tuesday evening. Neighbors were evacuated overnight and streets remain closed.
The tower is one of 100 targeted for closure. "This is a very new item to us," Santa Monica Airport Director says.
Evett's Model Shop—which will remain open—on Ocean Park Boulevard in Santa Monica is treasured on the Westside. Public memorial is scheduled for Saturday.
The family of a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed in December at the South Bay Galleria claims the mall is a "cesspool for crime."
Students, alumni, local church leaders and faculty line Pico Boulevard in colorful and peaceful counter-protest to a handful of Westboro Baptist Church picketers.
Organization for Action joins MoveOn, the progressive advocacy group, for a boisterous march Saturday from Reed Park to Santa Monica Place. OFA's Pacific Palisades arm is rallying support for lawmakers to take more steps to control gun violence.
Live burn exercise tacking place over three days at building at Colorado and Fourth in downtown Santa Monica.
"Officials for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences proclaimed it the most glamorous and the most perfectly run of all the 35 spectaculars in academy history," the Santa Monica Outlook reported on April 9, 1963.
Saturday mornings at the pier promise "no-judgment" environment with local instructors leading short runs and yoga classes.
Revised plans for a renovated Fairmont Miramar Hotel call for a 21-story building that would top 261 feet. Hotel owners say the new plan is based on community input—but opponents still hate it.
DNA of 39-year-old currently serving time in federal prison was recovered from the scene of a stabbing last summer in downtown Santa Moncia, police said Thursday.
Two people are hurt in the crash on northbound Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica.
Two people are hurt, one critically, in the crash on northbound Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica.
