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SMa.r.t. Column: Ode to the Future of My City

August 8, 2022

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August 8, 2022

How sad it is to journey to Santa Monica and I can’t find it.The open blue sky hides behind canyon...

News, Opinion

SMa.r.t. Column: Why Native Gardens?

July 22, 2022

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July 22, 2022

Voltaire said it best at the end of his 1759 novel  Candide: “We must cultivate our own garden”. This simple...

Opinion

SMa.r.t. Column: We’re All Wet – Not!

July 15, 2022

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July 15, 2022

Don’t you think that if you heard, or read, statements from controlling government agencies that said you were threatened by...

Opinion, Real Estate

Affordability Answer: A New Tax on Housing Speculators?

July 8, 2022

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July 8, 2022

By Tom Elias, Columnist The TV commercials and online ads are fast becoming ubiquitous: “We’ll buy your house as is,”...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMar.t. Column: Has the Promenade Turned a Corner?

July 8, 2022

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July 8, 2022

In large complex systems with dynamically balanced forces, it’s paradoxically often hard to tell when something has actually happened, For...

Opinion

Column: Groundwater Law Has Not Stopped Subsidence

July 1, 2022

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July 1, 2022

By Tom Elias Drive almost any road in the vast San Joaquin Valley and you’ll see irrigation pipes standing up...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: It’s Time to Look at the Facts of Santa Monica’s Housing History

June 30, 2022

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June 30, 2022

The Narrative: Santa Monica’s decades-long housing construction “shortage”  The Narrative endlessly repeats the refrain that for decades Santa Monica has...

News, Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: The Mansionization of Santa Monica

June 17, 2022

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June 17, 2022

Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in print in 2016.  In the 1980s, Santa Monica’s single family zoning code was...

Opinion

OP-Ed Response to DTSM Board Chair Barry Snell and Plea to City Council Regarding Safety Ambassadors and Ambassador Program

June 14, 2022

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June 14, 2022

I am responding to the OP-ED (dated June 7, 2022, Santa Monica Mirror) by City-appointed DTSM Board Member and now...

Opinion, Transportation

SMa.r.t. Column: Wheeling Electrically

June 9, 2022

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June 9, 2022

A recent weekend visit to Dana Point, on the Orange County coastline, revealed a curious scene: dozens, if not hundreds...

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