August 2, 2026
Breaking News, Latest News, and Videos

Shooting, Victims Not Helpful:

Three Santa Monica students, one of whom was shot, are being “very uncooperative” when it comes to supplying details to Santa Monica Police Department investigators. In fact, the only details known about the shooter – […]

Left to right

EPA Looks At Airport Pollution:

Community leaders opposing Santa Monica Airport met with the Environmental Protection Agency for the first time in an effort to bolster support from the influential federal arm against airport pollution. Representatives discussed three reports that […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

No Excuses for Not Voting This Time:

When just one-third of California’s 16.8 million registered voters turned out for last June’s primary election (only 24 percent of those actually eligible to vote), loud bleating ensued from so-called experts claiming that most potential […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Chile: The Un-Katrina:

I guess to start this out, one has to address the lingering affects of Bush-Cheney. Not the issue of whether there exist any lingering impacts, because that’s obvious. But rather the number of times one […]

Candidate Forum Missed Issue:

Dear Editor, As the woman pictured in the foreground of the photograph that accompanies Susan Cloke’s reporting on “An Evening with City Council Candidates” [on page 10 of the Santa Monica Mirror’s Oct 15 –21, […]

Fed Up With SMRR:

Dear Editor, The leadership of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights has again demonstrated its advocacy of deception, lack of transparency, and contempt for democratic principles. At its August convention, the vote of 55 percent of […]

Weather Brings Airport Reprieve:

Dear Editor, It is the weekend of October 16 and all is quiet in Sunset Park, (for the most part anyways). As I sit in my home office, there is something amiss and then it […]