Editor:
Santa Monica has wasted a unique opportunity. Regulating and taxing short-term rentals could generate millions for affordable housing. These short-term rental units will not be available for low-income housing even if short-term rentals are prohibited.
Instead, the City adopted the discredited model of 1920s prohibition and the current war on drugs — and will suffer the same ignominious failure.
Thomas A. Nitti
Santa Monica
Obama's shady trade agreement
Editor:
Please put an end to publicly disagreeing with Trans-Pacific Partnershipcritics and just publish the TPP text. It's supposed to be a free country with a free press.
Let us all read it, discuss it and decide democratically what's good for America, in terms of yet another "historic" trade agreement.
William Schoene
Santa Monica
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 22, 2015. Read the original PDF.