By Mike Kirwan
Santa Monica complains about being short of money. Well, maybe they would have more money for important things if they didn’t waste it on unneeded things. Fixing the hole on Ocean Park Boulevard was certainly needed, but all those redesigned curbs, traffic islands, roundabouts are not. Unless something is actually broken, it does not need to be fixed. Like the library. It is only 35 or so years old and the idiots want to replace it. There was nothing wrong with it. Might as well tear down all the older historic buildings in the city, they must be in bad shape if the main library needed to be replaced.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 13, 2003. Read the original PDF.