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

July 22, 2022 SM.a.r.t

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 SM.a.r.t

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 Tom Elias

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 SM.a.r.t

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 Tom Elias

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 SM.a.r.t

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 SM.a.r.t

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 Staff Writer

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 Staff Writer

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

Opinion, Real Estate

Population Loss: New Era or Pandemic Glitch?

June 3, 2022 Tom Elias

By Tom Elias, Columnist The numbers suggest a major change is underway in California. It would take a Nostradamus to...

Category: Opinion

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

SMa.r.t. Column: We’re All Wet – Not!

Affordability Answer: A New Tax on Housing Speculators?

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

Column: Groundwater Law Has Not Stopped Subsidence

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

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

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

SMa.r.t. Column: Wheeling Electrically

Population Loss: New Era or Pandemic Glitch?

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