Opinion pieces, editorials and letters to the editor on Santa Monica issues from Santa Monica Mirror.
“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states…” Barack Obama famously observed in 2004. “But I’ve got news for them: There’s the United States of America.” Obama went […]
While I’m not hearing much about many of my generation out in the trenches working for the Obama/Biden ticket, I know that their emotions are at least running hot. Part of this comes from a […]
Dear Editor, Help our schools on November 6th by voting yes on both Propositions 30 and 38! California schools have the largest class sizes in the nation, they rank 50th out of the 50 states. […]
When a car company blunders by installing, say, a power window switch that might catch fire, it issues a recall and fixes – for free – as many as 2.5 million cars. Toyota issued precisely […]
As the fall election season nears its welcome end, there are a few people and parties missing, at least in California: The candidates of the Green, Libertarian, American Independent and Peace and Freedom parties. When […]
Not everything is treasure to everyone. To you it’s just an old beat-up baseball cap, but it happens to be the one my father bought for me at the last game played by a baseball […]
If some voters feel a sense of déjà vu as the fall election nears, one reason may be the battle between the tax-raising Propositions 30 and 38, a fight with strong and ironic echoes of […]
Dear Editor: Three major developers are spending more than $100,000 to re-elect Terry O’Day and Gleam Davis to the City Council. As the pop-up organization called “Santa Monicans United for a Responsible Future,” they are […]
Democrats have dreamed all Fall of making a huge congressional comeback and reinstalling San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. That would be a gigantic turnaround from two years ago, when Republicans won […]
Before the 1994 Proposition 187 galvanized them into a powerful voting bloc, it was common to refer to California Latinos as a political “sleeping giant.” No longer. Where before 1994, Hispanics accounted for barely 10 […]
