Opinion pieces, editorials and letters to the editor on Santa Monica issues from Santa Monica Mirror.
Walk down Ocean Park Boulevard, and you can feel something coming. Development signs announce seven- and eight-story buildings that will tower over local shops and restaurants. Almost 1,000 mostly luxury units. Across Santa Monica, neighbors […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS NOW, THAT’S JUST SILLY With all that’s going on in the world, you’re going to use this precious space to complain about… sports on TV? (Hang with me on this.) That was […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: TONIGHT! – VERDI “FALSTAFF,” L.A. OPERA – Drink it in, the incomparable Romantic Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi borrows a really good story from the British Bard. Expect comic mayhem, […]
Attached is an article SMa.r.t. wrote in 2018, and short of a brief comment, I’m not going to edit or alter it, as it is prescient to what we are no doubt about to experience […]
By Charles Andrews FRIDAY, MAY 1, A NATIONAL STRIKE, TO RESTORE SANITY You know what to do…nothing. No work, no school, no patronizing of corporations, shop if you must at mom & pop businesses (and […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS NEXT FRI 5/1: GENERAL STRIKE We have the numbers, we have the economic power. We have seen that pushing back, protesting in large numbers, works. Trump and his clowns back off. The […]
There’s a story urban planners love to tell. A visionary architect-politician in a mid-sized Brazilian city looked at the chaos of modern urban life, the traffic, the pollution, the sprawl, and decided it didn’t have […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS BUT FIRST! THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE – If you care about the arts. And free speech, free media, free libraries – then please participate in the next protest against the insane clown posse […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS ANGER, OR FORGIVENESS? How about both. But there must be accountability – no justice, no peace – before we can stop the bleeding and proceed towards a future that works for everyone. […]
Santa Monica is rushing its long-term water plan to state regulators — and giving residents just one week to weigh in. The city is required by California law to hold a public hearing before filing […]
