Editorials, letters to the editor, and other community opinions about Santa Monica.
Hubris: (noun) Excessive pride. In Greek tragedy, defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. Please, the sooner the better. We can only hope. Of all the things I could use to illustrate the hubris of the current white house resident,…
The following article first appeared on The Healthy City Local. Santa Monica Airport is set to close December 31, 2028, and the City’s process to reclaim the city-owned land at the airport and convert it to public use as a…
Over the weekend, the Illinois Legislature met to pass its budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, and wrapped up their work until the fall. Sadly, they failed to fully fund the Chicago’s Regional Transit Authority (RTA), which faces…
I first began to be interested in the art of misdirection in college when my friends and I went to magic shows at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. Each of the artists, whether at our tables, or in performance, used…
Millennia before Mark Twain (allegedly) wrote, “Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over,” life everywhere on Earth arranged its daily existence around a critical dependence on water. Nothing was more necessary for survival. 60-70% of the human body…
Santa Monica residents know the harsh reality of our housing crisis all too well. As rents continue to climb and home ownership slips further out of reach for many, we’re left competing for a severely limited housing stock with minimal…
From the earliest accounts of battles in our ancient history, to reports pouring into our news feeds today, we have learned about the ways in which our children have been used as a shield in battle. Ancient armies forced children…
(The city will unveil the three draft scenarios for the future site this Saturday at the airport. Get the details here.) The airport planning process was always going to get contentious…it just didn’t have to get to that point this…
The current resident of the Oval Office has been honest with us in one way, at least. He has forthrightly revealed his dreams of planet-wide dominance. From posting a fake Time Magazine Man of the Year cover featuring himself, crowned…
Even before the latest oval office resident came on the scene, many in his party had campaigned, and won, not by promising to do better at governing, or by providing more services and protections to a majority of the people,…
I began a lifetime of reading science fiction books and magazines, like Amazing Stories, in the early fifties, when I was ten or eleven years old. All of the great authors: Heinlein, Bradbury, Jules Verne, HG Wells, Asimov, wrote short stories and…
Superintendent’s Message: Santa Monica Welcomes Palisades Charter High School Students and Staff to Santa Monica Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and Community Members, I hope you had a restful and enjoyable spring break with family and friends. I was able…
It’s spring! And, since I suffer from that “ear worm” condition under which practically every sentence I say or write makes me think of a song, the first thing that “springs” to mind is the title song, Springtime For Hitler, from the…
It may seem that “Abundance” is the latest buzzword in democratic policy circles, being thrown around without a deep understanding of what it means. And I think that would be an accurate representation of the current state of this policy…
Santa Monica Next is proud to be the online home of former State Senator and County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. You can sign-up to get her email delivered to your inbox directly by clicking here. In 1939, MGM released a movie,…
