Editor:
I was horrified listening to Steven Miller, now senior advisor to the president for policy, rant about immigrants on the national talk shows this past weekend. The vitriol and
RUBS and submeters
At last Thursday’s Rent Control Board meeting, I proposed to my colleagues that we as a body encourage the City Council to consider whether RUBS water
This Monday we as a nation celebrate George Washington’s birthday. The local Santa Monica / Malibu Unified School District will be on holiday to honor the man who is widely
By Michael Feinstein. Inside/Outside. February 24, 2017
It was time to come home. I was in line waiting to check my bags and board my plane back from South
Walking through the Main Street Community Garden you will see many iterations of a well-tended vegetable garden, neat rows of carrots and beets, perfect heads of cabbage. And then
Cognitive dissonance
Editor:
Cognitive dissonance has been described as the anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes.
It’s what I felt this week reading two
Going back to Ronald Reagan, every president's policies, at some point, are so unpopular that his “disapproval ratings” are over 50%. According to Gallup, for Reagan, it took
Fake out Editor: Doesn’t anyone think that Trump made his recent comments about the judiciary so that his Supreme Court nominee would make the response he did, be lauded, and then sail through the confirmation process? Mark Kaiserman
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE
But it can be exhausting. Longtime activists know that, but newcomers may get blindsided, and give up before they really want to.
That’s why Jerry
Iris has lived in her rent-controlled Santa Monica apartment for almost 20 years and hoped to stay there for at least 20 more. Her rent was affordable and she
Supporting Obamacare
Editor:
I’m writing to express my love and support for the affordable health care act. (Obamacare)
I know first-hand how financially devastating serious illness can be