By Mike Kirwan
Back on March 1, I said in my Q-Line answer that the activists better keep a 24 hour watch on the [ficus] trees, as the City Council would be sneaky enough to go out at 2 a.m. to cut them down. Okay, I was off by a few hours, but the point is the same. They had to hurry up and suddenly do it early in the morning so they could get away with it.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 28, 2008. Read the original PDF.