The latest stormy face-to-face collision between School Board President Saundra Davis and her frequent rivals on the Board flared into an ugly scene on Tuesday night over a recording of what was said about her at a meeting when she was not present.

            Ms. Davis charged that a critical portion of the School District-controlled audio tape — where the validity of a recent honorary doctorate for her was heatedly debated — was missing, unaccountably.

             “It was erased,” she flatly told thefrontpageonline.com.

             Estimating that a fifteen-minute portion of the tape had vanished without explanation while the rest of the Jan. 24 meeting seemed to be intact, Ms. Davis was not shocked.

            This debate became more acute last Friday when city employees found two extra sheets, a blue one and a white one, in their pay envelopes.  
            One sheet broke new ground, asserting that City Hall likely would be confronted by a million-dollar shortfall when the revenue counting is concluded sometime before the thirtieth of June, the end of the fiscal year. 

Mr Kissel

      After last week’s second invasion of choking fumes of gas in less than a month, some residents of the Culver Crest neighborhood were “pretty upset,”  according to Rich Kissel, chief of Neighborhood Block Captains for the homeowners.

      “When they called the Police Dept. and the Fire Dept., they felt they were getting the brush-off,” Mr. Kissel said, “when they were told the gas was not toxic and that it would go away.”

            Did heaven — in the form of the Democratic Club of Culver City —

send a signal to Mayor Albert Vera  that his first instinct was correct, that it really is time to  go?

            His on, then off, then who-knows withdrawal  from this spring’s City Council race took a hit when the Democrats voted overwhelmingly, fifty-seven  to seventeen, to support  Measure V.

            The mayor summoned all of the personal tools that have made him a cinch every time he has run for office. But they didn’t work this time.

            For anyone who has not been reading thefrontpageonline.com, he set up his typically informal pitch. He lifted the curtain a teeny bit to give the audience a preview.