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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...

Opinion, Real Estate

SMa.r.t. Column: The Sound of Silence Is Big & Tall

June 3, 2022 SM.a.r.t

All too often these days we find ourselves wondering how we could have been so correct about so many planning...

Opinion

OP-Ed: DTSM Chair Barry Snell on Safety Ambassadors

June 2, 2022 Staff Writer

By Barry Snell Chair, Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. Board of Directors The Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM) Board of Directors...

Opinion, Real Estate

Affordable Spaces for Small Business

May 27, 2022 SM.a.r.t

Los Angeles County recently proposed a program providing financial incentives for certain “Legacy” family businesses in their original historical location....

Opinion

Doubt Removed: Oil Refiners Gouging Us

May 23, 2022 Tom Elias

By Tom Elias, Columnist There was some room for doubt back in February, when gasoline prices rose precipitously: Until the...

Opinion

Is the Big Housing Crunch Mostly Fiction?

May 20, 2022 Tom Elias

By Tom Elias, Columnist In some parts of California, there is definitely a housing crunch: small supplies of homes for...

Category: Opinion

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?

SMa.r.t. Column: The Sound of Silence Is Big & Tall

OP-Ed: DTSM Chair Barry Snell on Safety Ambassadors

Affordable Spaces for Small Business

Doubt Removed: Oil Refiners Gouging Us

Is the Big Housing Crunch Mostly Fiction?

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