Letter To The Editor: The Positive Restoration Decision To Restore Chain Reaction:

Affordability: An Income and Available Asset Gap Issue, Not a Supply Issue (Last week’s article revealed how state mandates became...

In the world of economic policy, good intentions often pave the way to unintended consequences. Nowhere is this more evident...

Every once in a while, a topic arises that we had previously written about but doesn’t seem to go away....

This is the last SMart article in an expanding  5 part series about our City’s power, water, and food prospects....

This is the fourth in a series of SM.a.r.t articles about food, water, and energy issues in Santa Monica. You...

Our previous two S.M.a,r,t, articles talked about the seismic risks to the City from getting its three survival essentials: food,...

Last week’s S.M.a,r,t, article (https://smmirror.com/2024/07/sm-a-r-t-column-food-water-and-energy-part-1-of-3/) talked about the seismic risks to the City from getting its three survival essentials, food,...

Civilization, as we know it, requires many things, but the most critical and fundamental is an uninterrupted supply of three...

In the past several months, we’ve seen increasing protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza. We have also seen these protests...

We trust you are enjoying this holiday in celebration of Independence. Independence to be embraced, personally and civically, thru active...

Four years ago, our esteemed colleague Mario Fonda-Bonardi wrote the prescient essay below when much of the legislative development juggernaut...

Last week’s SMart article  (https://smmirror.com/2024/06/sm-a-r-t-column-the-up-zoning-scam-part-1/)  discussed the ambitious 8895 units (including 6168 affordable units) that Santa Monica is required to...

Over the last few years, the State of California has mandated a massive upzoning of cities to create capacity for...

Nine years ago, SMa.r.t wrote a series of articles addressing the adaptive re-use of existing structures. We titled one “Shape...