Opinion pieces, editorials and letters to the editor on Santa Monica issues from Santa Monica Mirror.
The Santa Monica Conservancy held its annual meeting on Jan. 23 at the historic Church in Ocean Park. The sanctuary was filled, bringing together Santa Monicans of many interests and opinions, but with a shared […]
Around 9 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2010, Herceg Vlado, a 66-year old Santa Monica resident, was fatally struck by a motorist while walking southbound across Wilshire Boulevard in a crosswalk near 10th Street. This was […]
I had a friend explain something to me once about Chevy Corvettes and middle age. I’ll do my best to relate the idea without the tart language deployed in the version I heard. It goes […]
No California governor serving his last few days in office has ever been more concerned about his legacy than was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Perhaps this was because unlike Ronald Reagan or Pat Brown or Pete Wilson […]
Let’s begin with a big generalization that might be relevant: Laws in America often change in response to an undeniable tragedy. Tragedy should always be undeniable since anything that is clearly tragic is tragic, such […]
What is the essence of Santa Monica? Many would say the beaches, which appear in media so often as “Santa Monica” that someone living in Cincinnati might wonder if we actually have any buildings here. […]
Dear Mayor Richard Bloom and Council members: I write to urge your swift and decisive action in eliminating the extreme danger posed to pedestrians crossing Wilshire Boulevard at night. This danger likely contributed to the […]
As California’s smog-fighting Air Resources Board (ARB) gets set to impose America’s first cap-and-trade rules for fighting the greenhouse gases most scientists believe are helping cause global warming and climate change, it is also considering […]
What is a New Year’s resolution, exactly? It appears to be a promise to yourself that you might share with friends or loved ones, and except for the fact that a new year feels like […]
The year that’s about to be in the books has been an interesting ride, to say the least, hitting more notes than Rialto-based saxophonist Vaughn D. Fahie, who performed at halftime of the Orange Holiday […]
