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LA County Committee Report Reflects a “Dire” Financial Future for Students of Santa Monica if City of Malibu’s Proposal to Split the District Is Approved

September 14, 2021

September 14, 2021

Editor’s note: the public comment period mentioned in the following letter has ended. The following is a letter from Santa...

Expect a Rebellion Against Key Housing Bills

September 13, 2021

September 13, 2021

By Tom Elias, Columnist Self-congratulations flowed easily the other day among ultra-liberal state legislators after they passed the two most...

SMa.r.t. Column: Stop the Steroids

September 10, 2021

September 10, 2021

Part 2/2 Santa Monicans face the usual fears of crime, Covid-19 and its collapsing job and housing impact including the...

SMa.r.t. Column: The Big Lie Just Got Bigger

September 3, 2021

September 3, 2021

Part 1 of 2 It’s not the lie about a stolen election or the dangers of vaccination or if Biden...

SMa.r.t. Column: Beat the Climate Change Heat

August 27, 2021

August 27, 2021

The new era of hot weather extremes has made coping with heat increasingly important. A recent paper by NASA’s Jet...

SMa.r.t. Column: Fix Those Balconies!

August 23, 2021

August 23, 2021

About six years ago a fifth-floor balcony in a Berkeley apartment building collapsed. A group of students standing on the...

Editorial: Unprofessionalism and Racial Insensitivity at Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. Leaves a Lot to Be Desired

August 20, 2021

August 20, 2021

By Santa Monica Mirror Editorial Staff A recent incident in which an executive at Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. flippantly used...

SMa.r.t. Column: The Main Pain

August 6, 2021

August 6, 2021

Visiting Main St. several times each day of what was to be a test trial of closure to thru traffic...

SMa.r.t Column: Promenade Progress?

July 30, 2021

July 30, 2021

As we find ourselves approaching August, the question is what, if any, progress has been made on conceptual design and...

SMa.r.t. Column: Water Woes Not Be Gone

July 28, 2021

July 28, 2021

Re-visiting a column of ours from 2014. The more things change, the more they stay the same.   “Water Woes”...