Tag: opinion

Can you afford a 6% permanent rent hike? Can your neighbor? Soaring inflation is forcing Santa Monicans to contend with ...

It’s Pride month and this is one gay man who is frankly pretty damn scared at the way American culture ...

Editor:  The six percent increase passed by the Rent Control Board is, ironically, tied to the rate of inflation. I ...

Editor: Again, math illiteracy is displayed by our Rent Board commissioners. When the year-over-year inflation rate is 10.8% (as reported ...

As an African American, Christianity has provided a strong foundation for my life. Born into the civil rights movement and ...

Re: David Pisarra’s June 14 column: EXCELLENT Father’s Day article in SMDP. Everything you wrote is spot on! In fact, ...

My thoughts upon returning to Santa Monica from 5 days in Mexico City My wife and I just returned from ...

Exactly fifty years ago today the infamous Watergate burglars were arrested and, twenty six months later, President Richard Nixon resigned. ...

Dad. Pop. Old man. Whatever you call your father, remember that this week is the lead up to Father’s Day. ...

There’s nothing new about an individual enjoying free stuff, reduced pricing or to be happy about being entitled to special ...