BOYB: Ocean Park and Richard Orton

By Michael Jolly Over the past six months, Santa Monica has experienced a concerning rise in crime, sparking heated discussions...

Starting last week,  the elementary school students of Louisiana will all face mandatory postings of the biblical Ten Commandments in...

In the next general election, this November 5th, Santa Monica residents will be asked to vote their choices among an...

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...