October 29, 2025
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Weather Brings Airport Reprieve:

Dear Editor, It is the weekend of October 16 and all is quiet in Sunset Park, (for the most part anyways). As I sit in my home office, there is something amiss and then it […]

Fed Up With SMRR:

Dear Editor, The leadership of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights has again demonstrated its advocacy of deception, lack of transparency, and contempt for democratic principles. At its August convention, the vote of 55 percent of […]

Candidate Forum Missed Issue:

Dear Editor, As the woman pictured in the foreground of the photograph that accompanies Susan Cloke’s reporting on “An Evening with City Council Candidates” [on page 10 of the Santa Monica Mirror’s Oct 15 –21, […]

Steve Stajich, Columnist

Chile: The Un-Katrina:

I guess to start this out, one has to address the lingering affects of Bush-Cheney. Not the issue of whether there exist any lingering impacts, because that’s obvious. But rather the number of times one […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

No Excuses for Not Voting This Time:

When just one-third of California’s 16.8 million registered voters turned out for last June’s primary election (only 24 percent of those actually eligible to vote), loud bleating ensued from so-called experts claiming that most potential […]