Barbara Boxer stood at a makeshift podium in the sand at Santa Monica Beach this past Saturday. Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver stood by her side, along with City Council member Bob Holbrook, Assemblywoman Julia […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The ideal of democracy was expressed in real time on Monday night at the Martin Luther King Auditorium in the Santa Monica Main Library. Fifteen City Council candidates, vying for five open seats, answered questions […]
The David in our own City Council may have launched a good sized-stone at Goliath bullies in Arizona when it first decided to impose a ban on trade with Arizona and then backed up its […]
Once on a visit to Las Vegas years ago I met a friend at his hotel, and I happened to notice that the windows to his guest room were sealed shut. You couldn’t open them […]
Hope springs eternal in the hearts not just of people, but political parties, and the hope of both California Democrats and Republicans today is that voters in the other party will desert, or at least […]
The City Council unanimously launched a $3.5 million Restorative Justice Program — one of the largest locally funded efforts of...
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