Here is an opportunity to go mano y mano with the lady and gentlemen of the City Council, well away from the encumbrances and formalities of Council Chambers. Casual, the style will be. Tuesday evening at 7, at Syd Kronenthal Park in East Culver City, Council members will meet with complaining neighbors – parents, to be specific. Complainers will look … Read More
Second Half of AVPA Spring Concert Tonight
The second half of the double weekend Spring Music Concert of the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts becomes airborne tonight at 7 at the Robert Frost Auditorium. The AVPA Pink Elephant Music Company presents Culver City High School students in one of the year’s main entertainment events. This Large Ensemble Concert celebrates the talents of the Concert Band, Jazz … Read More
Will Public Employees Have to Cough up More?
Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris
It was inevitable once the number of signatures needed to put a constitutional amendment initiative on the statewide ballot dropped by 300,000 following last fall’s election: A measure to change the pension system governing many California public employees will be voted on in November of next year. Equally unsurprising are the identities of its two major sponsors: former San Jose … Read More
Next War Is Coming up Fast
Katyusha rocket launch. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Dateline Jerusalem — It isn’t quite summertime yet, but things are heating up in Israel, literally and figuratively. Against a backdrop of almost record high scorching temperatures of 109 this week, the terrorists in Gaza launched rockets into Israel reminiscent of last summer’s war. This is not the first time rockets have fallen since last August. A month ago on … Read More
Thinking About What Could Have Been
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Dateline Dayton — Pauline and I were in Middletown last Friday for our grandson Kyle’s graduation from Madison High School. A smart young man, Kyle wasn’t that interested in school. “It’s boring,” was his standard response. As with everything in life, school success is how you apply yourself. Even with a poor attitude, he ended the year with better than … Read More
Do We Need to Stop for Gas?
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Here I am in the waiting room at Kaiser Permanente. The nurse just called me in. After taking my vitals, she told me to take a seat in the main waiting room. I am glad I asked why. Turns out the doctor was seeing a needy patient who was taking a long time. Then there are two patients before me. … Read More
Chardiet Ranks School Bond Priorities
Laura Chardiet, center, flanked by School Board colleagues Steve Levin, Nancy Goldberg, Kathy Paspalis and Sue Robins
[Editor’s Note: Second in a series of interviews with leaders of the school community conducted by activist Scott McVarish for his “Great Schools Project.” Today’s subject: Laura Chardiet.] First of two parts My first question to School Board member Laura Chardiet was about her priorities for the bond money passed by Culver City voters in 2014. Ms. Chardiet: “We have … Read More
Here Is Looking at You, Kid
Photo: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
Body cams, the rage of law enforcement nationwide, are coming to Culver City, Police Chief Scott Bixby estimates, in about a year. Funding, paying for them, is the issue surrounding the fallout from a rash of nationwide controversial police shootings/killings in the last 10 months. “There are logistics and legalities, privacy issues, things like that to be worked out,” Mr. … Read More
UCLA Women Softballers Open World Series Tonight
The UCLA women’s softball team is returning to the College World Series for the first time in five years. The seventh-seeded Bruins play No. 2 seed Oregon in Oklahoma City this evening at 6:30 on ESPN. UCLA advanced after sweeping Missouri last weekend two games to none at Easton Stadium on campus. UCLA will go as far as the Pac-12 … Read More
Unions Pull a Somersault – Fooled Ya?
While normal persons in Irvine this week were repealing the city’s dopey, and failed, “living wage” law, Rusty Nail Hicks, manager of the Los Angeles Thugs, slickly was doffing his I Am a Bully cap for his favorite I Truly Am a Victim headwear. Shlepping a tacky bucket of discount tears in case he couldn’t produce his own, Mr. Nail … Read More