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This is an essay that no father wants to write. Last Friday was my third son’s 34th birthday, one of the happier days of my life. Tomorrow will mark the anniversary of my oldest son’s birth, months after his mother left our marriage. Any parent would be thrilled to celebrate the birthdays of two of his children less than a … Read More

I thought of diversity-touting City Councilperson Meghan Sahli-Wells when I read this story. It must have been ripped from the comic pages. Surely it did not appear in a real newspaper. The dopey Democrat circus has come to town again, schlepping a mountain of mirth. Thank you, G-d, again for creating leftists so that when we are laboriously toiling, we … Read More

First of two parts Since Friday was Closing Day for Steve Rose after 30 years as president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, convention, if not the manners your mother hoped you would remember, called for more than a cursory check-in. When Mr. Rose announced his pending retirement last July, a month before his71st birthday, he announced travel destinations … Read More

Re “Mr. Gourley’s Last Lousy Job”   Hard to believe that someone as garrulous as Steve Gourley could just walk away from public life, after 23 high-profile years in and near City Hall. Six years ago this month, the attorney and former state official insists today that he just kept stepped. Never glance in the rear-view. No regrets. So what … Read More

Since I started using the S+ sleep device to track my sleep, I have been thinking about how to get a better night’s sleep. I realized this week that my very famous MyPillow was not very comfortable after all.  I have been using MyPillow on and off since I bought it almost one year ago. With all its hype, I … Read More

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

[Editor’s Note: Two-term former City Councilman Mr. Weissman was one of two main speakers at yesterday’s groundbreaking for The Culver Steps in Downtown.]   I am not sure that I ever thought I’d be here for a real groundbreaking. This is the third time I’m participating in some sort of ceremony for Parcel B. Some perspective on today: This groundbreaking … Read More

Like many local governments, Culver City has an embarrassingly dismal voter turnout in local elections. The state legislature passed an act to consolidate elections into even-numbered years to solve the problem. Since Culver City is a charter city, and is supposed to be independent of interference by the legislature, our city is supposed to comply. This so-called mandate has not … Read More