Editor Ari Noonan’s description of developers (“Rising in Defense of the Smeared Class: Those Poor Developers,” April 18) created a strange picture in my mind.
I imagine looking across the Council Chambers and seeing a dozen men in overalls text messaging each other on the Blackberries. I was unaware that Gucci even made bib overalls.
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This is the pervasively pathos-enriched story of an authentic latter-day American military hero and the tribulations that even Culver City heroes must endure:
For a fellow who leads a high-speed life, who had just triggered a lightning bolt across the community with an arresting Letter to the Editor, David McCarthy, a deputy attorney in the City Attorney’s office, looked mighty relaxed in the early afternoon sunshine
Despite insinuations that this morning’s bankruptcy hearing for the tottering Brotman Medical Center resembled its death bed, the Culver City hospital gained an undramatic reprieve to operate a few days longer.
In the face of onrushing deadlines that will be difficult for the hospital to meet, Brotman attorney Tom Patterson insisted that “there is no reason to suspect Brotman will not remain open for the foreseeable future.”
I am certain when Diane Watson, my least favorite liberal of all, was a little girl, she was different from all of her playmates, loudmouthed, ill-mannered, bossy, which, by golly, is what she grew up to be.
Besides growing insufferably brassy, the Democratic Congresswoman who is said to represent this section of Los Angeles but actually plays well at being invisible, reminds me of an old broad — she was born old — who would watch an arsonist torch a building, then dip into her cheerleading mode.
You can always tell when it is election season.
Your favorite remote hometown, state or federal politician — whom you have not seen since he had a full head of hair and his children were much younger — suddenly is ubiquitous, everywhere in your life, including seeming to be across the breakfast table from you each morning, sharing your cereal.
State Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City) is this morning’s illustration of ubiquity, comforting students, buttonholing leaders, trying valiantly to rescue King-Harbor Hospital, now in tatters but once a centerpiece of black community pride.
[Editor’s Note: Representing the Greater West L.A. Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Handal, a former Culver City business owner, responds to the latest developments in Mayor Villaragosa’s revolutionary plan to loosen Westside traffic. Essentially, he proposes turning Olympic and Pico boulevards into one-way streets at peak hours by banning curbside parking. The scheme is widely deemed damaging to business owners along both corridors.]
Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss’s office just released a new Pico/Olympic frequently-asked-questions sheet.
Say this about Frederick Smith, the radioactive land owner in the more or less family plot, the industry-heavy Hayden Tract:
His strident opponents are more interesting than those of other big-time players in Culver City.
The cymbals clang and the drums go bang when Donald D. Barr, a severely irked property owner in the Hayden Tract, serves up his sweeping opinions about Mr. Smith and about the ongoing saga of Mr. Smith’s controversial, supposedly sub-market acquisition, from City Hall, of the flat-faced Warner Parking Lot and his subsequent stewardship.
[Editor’s Note: This is the 11th in a series of poems from “Body Parts,” Dr. Janet Hoult’s collection of poetry about aging.]
Pearly Whites
While in Brazil on duty,
my husband contracted a bug
His gums grew weak,
could not hold his teeth
So they fell one by one on the rug.
Here is a shaggy dog story from inside the beast’s belly about small-town politics:
The familiar room darkens as Mayor Alan Corlin reaches to remove his fedora from the hat rack, and walks out the door for the last time, exiting from the City Council following a century-long run that was passionate and professional, but mainly classy.
[Editor’s Note: The letter writer sent the following message to the City Council last week before it approved the Entrada Office Tower project.]
My husband and I, residents of Culver City for over 20 years, are now disabled.
Recently, he had to be hospitalized and required the paramedics to come for him. The traffic on Sepulveda, Overland and Jefferson was so congested it was nearly impossible to get through to the hospital.
