Opinion pieces, editorials and letters to the editor on Santa Monica issues from Santa Monica Mirror.
Local governments already have a lot of taxing authority. They can levy sales taxes, parcel taxes, utility taxes, create assessment districts and charge business license fees, among others. There are also, of course, property taxes. […]
Ernest Marquez, the historian of the Marquez family, was born in 1924 at Mary Martin Hospital in Santa Monica. He grew up in the family home in Santa Monica Canyon on land that was part […]
There’s a difference between just being contentious and having an argument. True, we’ve lost a lot of ground with the concept of arguments thanks to such things as talk radio, 24-hour “news” channels, and TV […]
Critics have called the springtime Jerry Brown road show – mostly staged in schools in Republican legislative districts and interrupted briefly when he needed a small growth removed from his nose – little more than […]
“Waterman” was the descriptive name given to the early greats of surfing like Tom Blake and Pete Peterson, Santa Monica’s most famous Watermen, who shaped the culture of Santa Monica and of beach communities around […]
When it comes to facilities, equipment, and staff support – which in the end is reflected in the quality of a school’s student-athletes – sports in high schools in the Los Angeles area are not […]
While Washington D.C., New York, and Shanksville, Pa. have been ground zero for public demonstrations in response the capture and death of Osama bin Laden, truth is that the long tentacles of tragedy reach directly […]
Santa Monica plastic surgeon Janet Salomonson will be in Guatemala this coming summer performing operations to correct the birth anomaly of cleft palate. “We never turn away any child who is healthy enough to go […]
Find longevity at the end of the rainbow! Eat your way to longevity by consuming the five-color spectrum every day in each food category. Interestingly, eating a rainbow of colors corresponds to an age-old Eastern […]
The best two things that could happen in American politics would be cutting or removing altogether the corporate and labor union campaign contributions that are the most significant sources of corruption in both national and […]
