March 7, 2026
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Santa Monica’s Community Energy Independence Initiative:

Hannah Heineman Mirror Staff Writer Santa Monica’s City Council conceptually approved a Community Energy Independence Initiative this spring that includes a commitment to using solar power along with other strategies as well as a two-year […]

Natural Gas Station:

Chad Linholm, left, Senior Account Manger and Todd Campbell, right, Director of Public Affairs of Clean Energy Natural with City Councilman Kevin McKeown, who cut the ribbon at the opening of a new public access […]

Airport Bill Comes Up for Vote:

A bill now pending in the California State Assembly to require Santa Monica Airport to record operation times for certain stages of taxi/idle, take offs and landings comes to the Assembly floor in Sacramento this […]

Greens Say Enough of Senator Feinstein:

Mirror Staff The Green Party of California is urging people to stop supporting Senator Dianne Feinstein. Three Green Party candidates – Todd Chretien, Tian Harter and Kent Mesplay – are seeking to oust Feinstein from […]

Bonds of Immortality:

Dave Quick Reporter-at-Large Seems there’s a nasty streak of American cynicism that wreaks havoc on contemporary heroes. Take the moon landing on July 20, 1969. Polls show that between a quarter and third of American […]

Homelessness: Together Let’s End This Disgrace:

City Councilmember Kevin McKeown Special to the Mirror   Stop trying to manage the local crisis.  Instead, commit to ending the national disgrace.  That was a key message at the May 11 national summit on […]

Phil Angelides Visits Santa Monica:

State Treasurer Phil Angelides was endorsed by California’s major environmental leaders at a rally at Palisades Park in Santa Monica on May 22. The gubernatorial candidate outlined his priorities to protect California’s environment. (L-R) Larry […]

History, from the Waist Down:

Steve Stajich, Mirror Contributing Writer It’s a little bit awkward, this idea of revising or improving history.  It seems only right to revise textbooks so that they accurately reflect the genocide-for-land tragedy of the Native […]

Four-Dollar Half-Gas, Half-Latte:

Steve Stajich, Mirror Contributing Writer “Pain at the pump.”  Or, alliteration makes punchy, people-pleasing prose.  Either way, we’re now officially mad at the price of gasoline.  Or are we? The current gasoline price gouging (Come […]

Spring, When Our Thoughts Turn to Prison…:

Steve Stajich, Mirror Contributing Writer No, they don’t.  Easter hats, tulips, prison overcrowding…?  Not a likely sequence of thoughts at this, or any other time of the year.  Which might be part of the problem.  […]