From Chair Meghan Sahli-Wells’s opening words yesterday afternoon, the assignment for the Marijuana Task Force looked more complicated than mending a broken marriage after both spouses have died. Now that puffing and huffing on recreational marijuana has been legalized by the voter-passage of Prop. 64, Culver City’s challenge is to figure out how to control the many-pronged explosion with hometown … Read More

Second in a series   Re “Just What Does Polystyrene Ban Mean?” After surveying the community, Charles Herbertson concludes that restaurateurs have mixed feelings about the polystyrene ban that becomes effective in November. “Some restaurants do not have a problem with it,” said the Public Works director. “Some restaurants already have stopped using that product. “They are using recyclable material … Read More

First of two parts   [Editor’s Note: A memorial for the late Scott Wyant will be Sunday evening at 6:30 at Vets Auditorium.] The tight friendship between Scott and Leslie Wyant and Jim and Diana Solomon goes back decades — to when their daughters started school at Farragut Elementary. Their closeness and fondness grew like a sweet-scented rose garden that … Read More

Nearly a week has passed since Scott Wyant died. Even though he had been  diagnosed with brain cancer 13 months ago – practically mere minutes after the City Council election – I expected him to outlive the disease. Brave. Tall. Blond. Strapping. Handsome. Owner of a top-tier mind. A faithful early-morning surfer for many years, he treated the ocean as … Read More

[Editor’s Note: This may have been the final interview Mr. Wyant gave, appearing here last June 2.]   Good news keeps pouring into Scott Wyant’s repairing body in waves, which is cool since Mr. Wyant is an inveterate surfer. Brain surgery? Ah, that was a month ago. Normalcy is making a heroic comeback. Not that he has forged an instant … Read More

Third in a series   Re “Of No Small Consequence – Falling in Love” Before he left Culver City to return to a land he loved and called “delicious” 35 years ago when he was a collegian, Vice Mayor Thomas Small spoke as an architectural maven with a global grasp. While Mr. Small, his wife Joanna and their twins are … Read More

It is midway between fun and aggravating to stoically observe prancing liberals piously prattle  about their latest phony or exaggerated anti-President Trump rumor. Breathlessly last evening, the Washington Post, The New York Times and the Crooked News Network all reported that Mr. Trump disclosed undisclosable information to two Russian government officials last week. Don’t inhale while awaiting apologies. Liberals don’t … Read More

One week after the City Council formally confirmed a pro-environment polystyrene ban in Culver City restaurants after November, the wheels of implementation are churning. Banning polystyrene only sounds simple. “We are gearing up to have a public information campaign, workshops, and we will be reaching out to all businesses affected by the ban,” says Public Works Director Charles Herbertson. “We … Read More

Liberals are obligated to believe they are uniquely endowed to facilely change the past as crudely as they are attempting to create a salad of chaos in the present. The current fad ensnaring their momentary attention span is the mass removal of Confederate monuments and Confederate symbols from a century and a half ago. Many liberals are racists, as recent … Read More

One of the dynamic issues of the day will be debated this week at City Hall. Culver City is investing months in trying to package and contain the multi-sided marketing of marijuana, legalized last November by California voters. By the time the new Marijuana Task Force convenes a community meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Jeff Cooper, Task Force leader, and … Read More