Santa Monica City Hall can’t walk the walk Editor: As I follow the daily exploits of my hometown in the Daily Press online, I was truly excited that the
OpinionCommentary 4 TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007 A newspaper with issues What’s the Point? David Pisarra Answer is the same as it ever was Editor: As I was quoted out
By Mike Kirwan Venice
Bush wants to send more troops to his lost cause in Iraq. Back in Vietnam, we kept sending men to die for a lost cause. Finally,
By Mathew Millen Santa Monica
Linda Jassim’s glowing letter to the editor (“Lovin’ that SaMo architecture,” page 4, Jan. 11) regarding the city’s new four story low-income
By Doug Long Rio Rancho, NM
In spite of America’s voice in the recent election and in polls, the loss of the 3,000th American in Iraq, the troops
Last Tuesday, City Council took the first steps in eliminating citizen review on some of our largest and most egregious residential developments.
They approved a first reading of a permanent
AS A 55-YEAR-OLD, THIRD-GENERATION resident who is currently weaving through fiery hoops to rebuild my house that the city exempts itself from same rules that I and
THIS TOWN IS GOING TO BE OVERRUN with flop houses and tenement apartments.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 13, 2007. Read the original
THE REVIEW PROCESS SHOULD BE THE same for all — no matter rich or poor. This is a democracy. Also, a project of 50-units seems far too large for the
CITY HALL IS TAKING SANTA MONICA onto the track of progressive oblivion. Socialist, lazy income housing is the lead weight drowning Santa Monica into an aesthetic, cultural and economic cesspool.
OUR COMMUNIST NIGHTMARE THAT IS SMRR is guilty of murder, rape and robbery by creating rent-controlled and building ugly affordable tenements in our once quiet little town along with
AS A FORMER APARTMENT HOUSING owner, and now a disabled individual, I think Santa Monica is indeed on the right track. We need more housing projects for people who need
