Starting last week,  the elementary school students of Louisiana will all face mandatory postings of the biblical Ten Commandments in all their classrooms. Apart from the probable illegality, of abandoning the founding principle of the […]

In the next general election, this November 5th, Santa Monica residents will be asked to vote their choices among an array of potential candidates for City Council. As in our National US election, Santa Monica […]

Affordability: An Income and Available Asset Gap Issue, Not a Supply Issue (Last week’s article revealed how state mandates became a tool for gentrification. Now, we will review the falsehood on the state’s housing supply […]

In the world of economic policy, good intentions often pave the way to unintended consequences. Nowhere is this more evident than in California’s approach to its housing crisis through the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) […]

Every once in a while, a topic arises that we had previously written about but doesn’t seem to go away. The Miramar condo/hotel project is such an example. With recent coastal commission approvals and no […]

This is the last SMart article in an expanding  5 part series about our City’s power, water, and food prospects. These three factors are essential to the City’s prosperity and, more importantly, to its sustainability […]

This is the fourth in a series of SM.a.r.t articles about food, water, and energy issues in Santa Monica. You can read the last article at  https://smmirror.com/2024/07/sm-a-r-t-column-food-water-and-energy-part-3-of-4/  which talked about, among other things, the dangers […]

Our previous two S.M.a,r,t, articles talked about the seismic risks to the City from getting its three survival essentials: food, water, and energy shut down by the coming inevitable large earthquake. Specifically, last week (https://smmirror.com/2024/07/food-water-and-energy-part-2-of-4//), […]

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, water, and energy shut down by the inevitable large earthquake. Specifically, we looked at the […]

Civilization, as we know it, requires many things, but the most critical and fundamental is an uninterrupted supply of three basic factors: food, clean water, and energy. If you have a steady supply of those […]