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# Dan Stuart Santa Monica City needs to get own house in order
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/dan-stuart-santa-monica-city-needs-to-get-own-house-in-order-editor/
- Published: 2004-03-26T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:04:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

I understand the City of Santa Monica is now suing the federal government because the city claims the federal government allows emissions that contribute to a phenomenon it refers to as global warming. I only hope the city has better luck than it did when it wasted all that money suing over ATM fees and then lost.

Maybe the city of Santa Monica should first take a look at its own house, because I’d like to know if all of that hot air coming out of City Hall is responsible for this global warming trend.

Now the city has banned smoking at the beach, after having banned smoking in public parks last year. As a non-smoking mother with two small children, my immediate concern is not over smoking in the parks or beaches, but the homeless who litter those areas — sleeping, urinating, defecating, drinking and in general making our beaches and parks unsuitable for use by our children.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 26, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032604.pdf?ref=smdp.com)