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Re “Daniel Lee Joins Race for City Council” Best hometown news to break in the last week is that Daniel Lee is running for City Council in the April election. You don’t have to know who Mr. Lee is to appreciate his decision. If you care a whit about how Culver City is run, you should hear Mr. Lee, not … Read More

Before retiring last winter from the Culver City Police Dept., former acting assistant chief Allen Azran assayed his relationship with Ted Cooke, the most controversial chief in department history. For a decade and a half, Mr. Azran took the chief’s unique orders. “Ted Cooke was – especially now, looking back – I would say Ted Cooke was a visionary,” Mr. … Read More

Re “A Mystery Behind the Mystery of ‘Dare to be Different’” Away to a promising start, the Long Island radio station documentary “Dare to be Different” captured a share of first place for the best audience reaction at last month’s Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival at L.A. Live. “The crowd response was just terrific,” said Roger Senders. He is one … Read More

First of two parts His intention was otherwise. But when Steve Gourley strode to the microphone to address the City Council last week, a waterfall of memories of the sui generis Mr. Gourley from years past flooded back. An academic skyscraper (http://the3wisemen.co/about/steven-gourley-curriculum-vitae/), he is the only politician to capture both a Council seat (1988-1996) and a seat on the School … Read More

No matter what is going on in the world, Dave White and his moustache consistently resemble the happiest couple in town. Unflappable, he is. Just the kind of personality you want to be n charge. At a time when a gathering uproar is nearing City Hall with the complex regulations, exotic sounds and scenes of fully legalized marijuana, the fire … Read More

First of two parts   Bell View –A few friends from my old neighborhood w qualify as legitimate “gun nuts.” Am I afraid these guys are going to snap and start picking people off from the roof of a Motel 6? No. But I remember being 15 years old at a friend’s house for one of those parents-are-out-for-the-night parties.   … Read More

Culver City activist Daniel Lee, a volunteer mentor who narrowly lost his first bid for the City Council last year, today became the second candidate to declare for April’s Council election. He joins Albert Vera, the second candidate to announce, in what is expected to be a large field. Mr. Lee’s new campaign already has received the support of two-term … Read More

Left-wing racists are enjoying, arguably, their finest week since their philosophical ancestors formed the Klan a century and a half ago. As committed racists, they do not need a reason for outlawing Columbus Day observances, ugh, by white and non-white people all across our country. Columbus Day, you will forgive the pun, now is history in 16 states. Like a … Read More

Dateline Dayton – After the mass killings in Las Vegas, what goes through a person’s mind that makes him want to do this? Guns do not kill. People do. If you want to outlaw guns, we need to outlaw everything else that kills, such as rocks, slingshots, bows and arrows, automobiles, motorcycles, even medicine. People kill. I do not own … Read More

Jerry Brown. Stephen Paddock. Colin Kaepernick. Kevin de Leon. At a glance, the bunching may seem lopsided. But each of these despicable persons has been spitting on our country, our flag, our democracy this season. They deserve whatever punishment can be meted out – after being forced to publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Either that or ship them to … Read More