This past Sunday, Q-line asked: “What resolutions or changes will you make in your life for 2003?” Here are your responses: ■ “California schools were sitting pretty during the days of Proposition 13. They had what they don’t have now — a stable source of funding. Now they are dependent on state government, with this less than stable income sources of sales tax and state income tax. So instead of complaining that the state has abandoned education, school administrators should adjust their sights to an income stream that will be up in some years and down in others, or they can unite to bring back Proposition 13. I don’t have a push button phone. Thank you. Bye.” ■ “I’ve had it with the traffic in downtown Santa Monica. My lease of my business offices is up in June, and I’m moving out of Santa Monica. Hooray.” ■ “My resolution is not to have anything to do with real estate sales mooches and apartment building management companies who are solely in the business of harassing their tenants, and various real estate legal beagles who convince apartment building owners, at the expense of existing tenants, that there is a pot of gold at the end of the de-control, re-control rainbow. And those in the overnight get rich scheme of converting apartment buildings to condominiums that would inflate the value of a building three times its true market value as an apartment building, and all other carpet-bagging scoundrels who have brought their milking machines and stools to Santa Monica.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 3, 2003. Read the original PDF.