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Words pack meaning, subtle and otherwise, as journalists – and some City Council members – know. Did Meghan Sahli-Wells insult users of airbnb facilities by calling them transients? At the City Council meeting two weeks ago, three speakers accused the Councilwoman of offending their guests by plastering them with the intensely derogatory label. Typically, transient characterizes homeless, hopeless types, bums, … Read More

The well-documented corruption in various wings of California state government shows few signs of abating: Even though Gov. Brown’s latest questionable appointees to the state’s powerful Public Utilities Commission have been held up, no one has yet been penalized for several fix-is-in decisions there that are costing consumers billions of dollars. Energy Commission members who handed out many millions of … Read More

What if someone told you that you could literally get off life’s treadmill  and just breathe for a moment, actually for a full 24 hours? Wouldn’t you jump at the chance? You might think about your future plans, reflect on your past. Could you imagine that? Or what if you could just feel very zen-like, appreciating your life-realizing, connecting to … Read More

Starved for adulation, one of Culver City’s angriest and least serious leftist politicians, not known for his original thinking, posted himself on a social media street corner the other morning. He was celebrating his recent election as president of the leftists’ New Shoestring Tiers Club. Emulating a latter-day Howdy Doody (there is a resemblance), the failed office-seeker asked passersby to … Read More

I never wanted to go in for a sleep study. The thought of sleeping with electrodes attached to my body sounded so unnatural. Then a week ago, I was reading my son-in-law’s Popular Science magazine.  I came across an ad for a $150 sleep device that would measure all aspects of my sleep without wires. I learned that the device, … Read More

@The Guss Report  — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has a big problem. The “gelatinous one,” so named because he never will give a straight answer (e.g. is L.A. a sanctuary city or not?) wants to run for president. Both history and his resume say it never will happen. Facebook Twitter Google+ Share Having spent most of his adult life … Read More

City Councilperson Meghan Sahli-Wells is about to be granted one of her oldest and fondest wishes: Consolidation of City Council elections – long an April staple — with state and national elections in November. Reason: To possibly improve pale voter turnout in Culver City. The Sahli-Wells’ amen corner called the decision to consolidate elections “a no-brainer.” Their strongest evidence: Voter … Read More

The only surprising thing about the total catastrophe in Puerto Rico is that it took so long for the “Trump-Is-A-Bigot-Who-Hates-Brown-People” refrain to get cranked up to 11. Concerning which, a few observations. First, people are calling the federal response “Trump’s Katrina.” What do we know of Katrina? First of all, it wasn’t enough for the left to attack the Bush … Read More

Second of two parts   Re “Student Learning Not Based on Teachers’ Earnings” Is spending local tax money for increasing salaries of teachers in Culver City a good use for local parcel tax revenue? Back in 2011-12, at the start of the Teachers Union’s first 5-year plan, we ranked 44th — out of 47 districts — in average teacher salary. … Read More

If any legislative bill was a no-brainer for easy passage and then approval by Gov. Brown, it was Senate Bill 568, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara of East Los Angeles. No one at all, in Sacramento or anywhere else, argues with the premise behind this new law: California has long had far less influence in choosing America’s presidents … Read More