The Santa Monica Mirror welcomes Brenton Garen to its staff as Editor-in-Chief. Brenton will be responsible for handling all editorial content in the newspaper as well as managing The Mirror’s rapidly growing Internet, digital, and […]

Trying to predict the hottest campaigns over California initiatives many months in advance is a bit like reading tea leaves. But there are some exceptions this summer: The attempt by Amazon.com to reverse a legislative […]

An hour in a day, dedicated to celebrating a story that started during WWII, healing old wounds and honoring an honorable community. In 1942 Bainbridge Island, Washington, had a population of fewer than 3000 people. […]

I grew up in Wisconsin but you should stick around for the rest of this column because it might not go exactly the way you’d think with me being a child of “America’s Dairyland.” It’s […]

For many years, it could have been standard to suggest that entering high school students look around their homerooms on the fall semester’s first day and notice everyone present. Because they could expect that one […]

At one point or another during your childhood, you viewed the following piece of cartoon animation: Somebody (likely an anthropomorphic dog wearing a fishing vest) is sitting in a diminutive rowboat out at sea, minding […]

Working landscapes. Across Puget Sound from Seattle, the City of Bainbridge Island owns five public farms providing sixty acres of land. Farming is part of the heritage of Bainbridge Island and the initiative for the […]

Those of you following national trends beyond the box office numbers might have noticed that in addition to the accelerated primate evolution represented in “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” last weekend was also […]

Anti-union sentiment has always been strong in California, with today’s particular emphasis on resentment of public employee unions whose members’ pay and benefits sometimes equal or exceed the levels to which recession has reduced similar […]