Dateline Jerusalem — Mazal (or mazel) means luck, in Hebrew and in Yiddish, respectively. Whether it be winning the lottery or any gift or prize, some people have mazal the rest of us often wish we had. For my 15th birthday my grandmother, may she rest in peace, bought me 15 lottery tickets.  I won $2 total! The only time I … Read More

Alice Huffman is old enough to remember when there was racism in America, not the cartoon-generated antics of her contemporary friends on the left. Huffy, however, turned huffy this week. She launched an unintentional round of jokes – on her. Huffy (straight face now, kid) is president of the – please, oh, my, please, please, please, please excuse the expression … Read More

On a brilliant Downtown mid-autumn morning garbed in gleaming gold, ladies wore fashionable dark glasses and sport-coated men arrived in open-throat dress shirts yesterday for what was billed as the final Parcel B groundbreaking. During the next two years, the wide-stairway project known as The Culver Steps, a sprawling office and retail complex, is scheduled to rise in the gaping … Read More

First in a series Ten years after National Guard Sgt. Scott Ansman was convicted of fatally bludgeoning a young woman at the Culver City Armory and sentenced to life in prison, a former Ansman aide, with clarity in mind, has stepped forward. His purpose: To demystify some details surrounding the killer who was married with three small children, including a … Read More

Nancy Armour belongs to a small professional community. She is a sportswriter for USA Today,. Their employees must sign a Declaration of Dependence, a loyalty pledge to Obama and Tommy (Gun) Steyer, before receiving their first check. Stubborn Nancy (“I know it wasn’t very ladylike”) leaped onto the Colin Kaepernick bandwagon — before it had wheels. She said she was … Read More

In the middle of his final week as president/CEO of the Chamber of Commerce after 30 years, Steve Rose, a critic of the new polystyrene ban, has a question for City Hall: “Why is such a small community taking a stiff stand against polystyrene when it is easily reachable (just over the city border in Los Angeles and elsewhere)?” Not … Read More

The Justice Dept. of honest U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions last week was ordered to pay out millions of dollars to 428 conservative groups persecuted by the conservative-hating and urgently dishonest Obama Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and the criminal Obama IRS. The right-wing groups had applied for tax-exempt status, a common, almost automatic procedure – if you are on the … Read More

Yesterday was Day One of Culver City’s restaurant polystyrene ban, and ban director Charles Herbertson is confident it will be effective. Not perfect. But working. Not that City Hall has the personnel to prowl Culver City’s 200 eateries. However, Mr. Herbertson, the Public Works director, believes the ban will attract plenty of volunteers. City Hall employees and community activists fan … Read More

Here is a fascinating twist to Sunday’s doubleheader unveilings of the Alex Fisch and Albert Vera campaigns in advance of April’s two-seat City Council election: At least a hundred hardline political fans turned out for each event. But… I do not believe a single person attended both events – and that did not have anything to do with logistics. Scheduled … Read More