Opinion pieces, editorials and letters to the editor on Santa Monica issues from Santa Monica Mirror.
Dear Editor, Recently, supporters of a referendum on a development in Santa Monica have hit the streets to gather signatures to get their issue on the ballot. The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica […]
White elephant: an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth.—Wikipedia Remember the enthusiasm […]
One in every eight or nine earthquakes is followed by an even more powerful aftershock, officially making the first quake into a foreshock. And the farther we get into this year’s political season, the more […]
There’s no other way to cut it: The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman struck many at a personal level, because we’ve either struggled with our own substance “issues” or known someone who has. Or […]
Dear Editor, The proposed Bergamot Transit Village (BTV) is big enough to cause “significant and unavoidable” impacts to much of the Santa Monica/Venice/West LA area. Its impacts, however, are far less than those of other […]
Editor’s Note: Below is a letter on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council supporting the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway project, which will be discussed at Santa Monica City Council tonight. Dear Mayor O’Connor and […]
Here’s a bit of unsolicited advice to Congress and the President about the newest free trade agreement in the works for America, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which because of its location would affect California more than […]
Dear Editor, My wife and I live in Santa Monica. My wife has been in this apartment for over 20 years, I have been here for six years. On December 23, 2013 we were served […]
California Governor Jerry Brown and a lot of public school officials are just now rediscovering how right the 18th Century Scottish poet Robert Burns was when he observed that “The best laid plans of mice […]
Dear Editor, I recently attended my first Santa Monica City Council meeting after moving here a year and a half ago from the Valley. I came to speak and support the Bergamot Transit Village project […]
