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2004

March
3-26--LETTERS: Trusted Source, Taking Responsibility and Outstanding News

3-23--OPINION: City's "Historic Blueprint" to Fund Schools Guarantees Accountability
3-17--LETTERS: Kudos and “Olympic Saved My Life”
3-15--OPINION: Santa Monica and San Francisco: A Tale of Two Cities -- and Their Schools
03-11--OPINION: Deasy’s Distressing Lack of Real Leadership
03-11--LETTERS: Thumbs Up for Transit Mall and For the Record

3-9--LETTERS: Buried Heads

February
2-27--OPINION: Ongoing and Reliable Revenue Needed
2-25--OPINION: Why Chamber Backs CEPS Charter Amendment
2-24--LETTERS: Attacking Funding and Don't Force the Right Thing
2-24--OPINION: Positive Changes in South Beach
2-24--LETTERS: Protecting Salaries

2-23--LETTERS: Deasy Misled Public
2-20--LETTERS: Significant Mischaracterization
2-19--LETTERS: Insensitive, Naïve Words and Victimized by Tenants
2-19--MORE LETTERS: 15 Percent = Equal Opportunity

2-18--LETTERS: City Funds Don’t Belong to Council & "Can You Hear Me Now?"
2-15--LETTERS: Unprofessional and Disrespectful
2-11--LETTERS: Keeping Homeless on the Streets
2-10--LETTERS: Santa Monica's Disneyland and Eradicating Homelessness

January
1-30--LETTERS: Great Expectations
1-29--LETTERS: Hand Wringing, Keep a Good Thing Getting Better and Support the Samohi Choir

1-27--LETTERS: Misinformed for a Purpose and Transforming the "Ugly Stepchild"
1-23--LETTERS: Policy Will Dampen, not Kill, Desire to Give
1-23--LETTERS: Feinstein Corrects Record and Beyond Hypocrisy
1-22--Trash Talk Wearies Council
1-22--LETTERS: It Would Take a Mitzvah, Speaking for Frustrated Citizens and A Privilege not a Tax

1-21--LETTERS: Grossly Inaccurate and “What’s Wrong with This Picture?”
1-20--OPINION: The Price of Being Dense
1-19--LETTERS: One-sided, Inflammatory Article and Lookout Should Take Closer Look


2003

December
12-29--LETTERS: Union Gangs
12-25--LETTERS: Mr. Lucas' Misconception

12-23--LETTERS: Investigate Weller's Engine Mount
12-11--LETTERS: Theft, not Fairness and "Maverick"
12-10--LETTERS: Proposed Policy Penalizes Success
12-9--LETTERS: Separating Fact from Fiction
12-8--LETTERS: Speaking Terms

November
11-28--LETTERS: Party Noises and Thanks from JAMS
11-24--LETTERS: Historical Society Created by Many
11-22--LETTERS: PNA Responds to Gun Violence
11-21--LETTERS: More than “Crisis Response” Needed

11-18--LETTERS: Kudos and a Different Take
11-12--LETTERS: Counting Students Saved and Coming Through
11-12--MORE LETTERS: Thanksgiving

11-5--LETTERS: Overreacting, Grateful and Reaping What they Sow

October
10-28--LETTERS: Begging to Differ
10-24--LETTERS: Union Dues and Don'ts

10-23--OPINION: Sustainable City Program -- Mandate or Dream?
10-23--LETTERS: Feeling Threatened, Skate more Mike and "We are With You"

10-22--OPINION: Feinstein's Reasons for Running for Air Quality Governance Board
10-20--LETTERS: Thanks, a Quiz and One of a Kind

10-16--LETTERS: Bold Initiative, Thanks Joe and Room for Stupidity
10-15--LETTERS: Catching up on the Mail
10-15--LETTERS: More Mail -- Union Politics and Disenfranchised
10-15--OPINION: Santa Monica’s Finest: Twenty years in the Making

10-8--LETTERS:Kudos and Education not Indoctrination
10-7--OPINION-- A Green Perspective: Why I’m Voting "No" on the Recall but "Yes" on Future Reform

10-7--LETTERS: Condescending Words, Disturbing Opinions and Setting the Record Straight
10-5--LETTERS: Who is We and Get a Grip, Kip
10-4--OPINION: McKeown Hitches Wagon to Conservative Republicans
10-4--LETTERS: California's Nader, Thanks and Kudos

10-3--OPINION: California is in Trouble and Arnold is the Answer

10-3--OPINION: Partisan Recall Jeopardizes Stability, Values

10-1--LETTERS: Hope McKeown Paid, Thanks for the Truth and Gruber Misses Point
10-1--MORE LETTERS: Shattering Democratic Values and "Who's in Charge?"

September
9-30--OPINION: McKeown Weighs in on Recall -- "No Is Not Enough"
9-29--OPINION: Locally Elected Officials Are Key to SMC's High Standards
9-29--LETTERS: SMC Style Deplorable and League Responds to Green Candidate
9-25--LETTERS: Amazing Lack of Public Outcry
9-25--OPINION: Gifts

9-24--OPINION: Time to Govern SMC Democratically
9-24--LETTERS: "Sit up and Take Notice" and "Evicted by Greedy Landlords"

9-18--LETTERS: When Is It Going to Stop?
9-15--LETTERS: Genser on Council Vote: No Sense Paying More for Less
9-10--LETTERS: Letter to Santa Monica from Farmers Market Victim
9-9--LETTERS: Tips for Parents: Starting the New School Year Right

9-5--LETTERS: An Ill-considered Travesty
9-4--OPINION: Iraqi Children are Harmed by the Environmental Legacy of War


August
8-25--LETTERS: Tiresome Finger Pointing, Naming Names and Disgusted by Corruption
8-20--LETTERS: Forbidding Contact and Balancing Needs
8-15--LETTERS: Heavy Metals and The Wacky Utopian Left
8-12--LETTERS: Enough is Enough
8-11--LETTERS: Missing Moyle, Equating Homeless with Toxic Waste and Fearful Unions
8-4--LETTERS: Thumbs Down for PNA Video and City Should Buy Shelter Site

July
7-29--LETTERS: Good Riddance and Where Will They Go?
7-28--LETTERS: Let Homeless Center Work
7-17--LETTERS -- Out-of-town Readers Weigh In: Callous Coverage and My Miracle
7-14--LETTERS: TORCA Funds Still Available and Cheers for Roundabout
7-9--LETTERS: "A Countervailing Power" and "Self-serving Hypocrites"
7-8--LETTERS: Olsen Conflicted on Appeals
7-7--LETTERS: Schmoozing for Money, Traffic Circle Works and Out with the Old
7-4--LETTERS: Traffic Circle a Win-Win
7-3--LETTERS: Roundabout Strikes Best Balance
7-2-LETTERS:Throwing Money at Non Problems and A Wonderful Idea

June
6-30--OPINION: Democracy's Price
6-27--OPINION: Road to Baghdad
6-27--LETTERS: Thank You for Your Support

6-23--LETTERS: Be Accountable to Residents, Reappoint Olsen
6-20--LETTERS: Highly Paid Critics and Showing Priorties
6-18--MORE LETTERS -- California’s Biggest Spender
6-16--OPINION: The Case for Increased City Support for the Public Schools
6-16--LETTERS: “Shame on you, Mr. Zane!” and “We Must Keep Searching”

6-13--OPINION: Planning for Success, Preparing for Shortfalls
6-11--LETTERS: No Place for Smart Tourists and Council’s Turn to Ante Up

6-10--LETTERS: What the Chumash Elder Said and Time for Action
6-4--OPINION: Can We Send This Order Back? It’s Not Well Done
6-3--LETTERS: Put Differences Aside
6-2--LETTERS: Facts or Fabrications & Funding not the Problem
6-2--LETTERS: Schools’ Accomplishments Impressive; In Jeopardy Without Measure S

May
5-31--LETTERS: Grammar Patrol and Thoughts on Measure S
5-30--OPINION: School District Financial Management and Measure S
5-30--LETTERS: Shameful Tripe, Grammar Lesson and S Lets off “Sinfully Rich”

5-29--LETTERS: Embarrassing, Negative Tone and No More Spin
5-29--MORE LETTERS: Political Reasons and Do the Math

5-28--OPINION: Measure S Not Real Answer
5-28--LETTERS: Triumphs and Tragedies & Where there’s Smoke

5-26--LETTERS: It’s About the Kids, S Helps the Poor, Ditto and Not Funny
5-23--LETTERS: Prop S Feeds Bottomless Money Pit and Dear President Gore
5-23--MORE LETTERS: Reasons to Vote for S

5-22--LETTERS: A Mother’s Plea -- Stop the Violence
5-22--OPINION: Measure S is Smart Return on Investment
5-21--OPINION: Misrepresentations, Distortions and Lies
5-21--LETTERS: Same Old Story and Grammar Police

5-20--LETTERS: Dear Mr. President, No Beauty Contest and Not About the Money
5-19--OPINION: Open Letter to President Bush
5-16--LETTERS: Taxing Taxes, Unfair Taxes
5-14--OPINION: Not All Taxes are Bad!
5-12--LETTERS: False and Misleading & Democracy Sacked, Raped and Looted
5-7--LETTERS: Grudges Taint Truth and “Nothing Left”
5-5--LETTERS: “Green Party Shenanigans” and “I was not Removed”
5-5--MORE LETTERS: “Shared Sacrifice” Needed at SMC

April
4-23--LETTERS: The Promise of Edgemar Center
4-10--LETTERS: Biased Report and Changes to Ellis
4 -01--LETTERS: Gang-banged by Business

March
3-31--LETTERS: Iraqi Children are Wars Greatest Casualty
3-24--LETTERS: Compassion Little Voices and Foolish Anger
3-24--LETTERS: Shortcuts and Foodlines
3-21--LETTERS: No Insult Intended and Telling the Truth
3-21--LETTERS: Reentry It's in God's Hands
3-20--LETTERS: Absurd Statements and Come to the Aero

3-19--OPINION Follow the Money

3-18--LETTERS: A Tree Case for Prop A
3-18--LETTERS: Exposing Planning Commission Abuses
3-14--OPINION Backgammon in Baghdad
3-14--OPINION Big House Old House

3-13--LETTERS: Demonizing Homeowners

3-12--LETTERS: On the Point and Tenants and Prop A
3-11--LETTERS: Bashing McKeown and Beside the Point
3-10--LETTERS: A Little History
3-07--LETTERS: Fear in the Streets

3-05--LETTERS: Signs and Hypocrites
3-05--LETTERS: Thoughts of Babylon

February
2-28--LETTERS: Balancing Competing Interests and City Budget Woes Relative
2-27--LETTERS: Not a Green Office and Talk of the City
2-25--OPINION: A Transplant's Perspective on the Beauty of Santa Monica and Proposition A
2-22--OPINION: Prevent the School Budget Calamity
2-20--OPINION: Orwellian Left Toying with Language
2-18--LETTERS: Don't Equate Majority with Morality and War is War
2-18--OPINION: Rent Control By Any Other Name Still Won’t Work
2-13--OPINION: Message in a Bottle
2-13--LETTERS: Feinstein's Statement not True and Prove You're Progressive

2-7--LETTERS: Dispatch from Baghdad and Racist Views
2-6--LETTERS: It's Up to You and Me and End "Free Ride" for Malibu
2-3--LETTERS: Insulting Charges Unfounded

January
1-31--LETTERS: Encouraging Big and Ugly, Coincidence? & The Big Lie
1-30--LETTERS: Traffic is THE Issue
1-28--LETTERS: Claim the Problem as City's Own
1-27--LETTERS: Setting the Record Straight and New City Order
1-23--LETTERS: Protecting Priorities and an Urban Legend
1-23--LETTERS: City Manager Corrects "Misimpression"

1-22--OPINION: The Paradox of Priorities in a Time of Crisis by School Supt. John Deasy
1-16--LETTERS: Bad Idea and Taking Satire Seriously
1-14--OPINION: Teachers Union President's Address to School Board
1-13--LETTERS: Three Cheers for Planning Commissioner and "Outrageous and Irresponsible"
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