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# Santa Monica A little too late
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/venice-distrust-and-lack-of-faith-is-building-in-local-school-district/
- Published: 2003-05-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:08:52.000Z
- Author: Bill Bauer
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Mike Kirwan*

Dee’s will be closing and many will be sad to see this happen. The replacement place at least isn’t another Starbucks. What usually happens when a place closes after a long time is that everyone gets upset. Yet if all these people would have gone to the places on a regular basis, maybe they wouldn’t close.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 16, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051603.pdf?ref=smdp.com)