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Dateline Jerusalem — I have been blessed with a rich and rewarding life that includes a wonderful family, numerous friends, and freedoms from having lived in the two greatest democracies in the world, Israel and the United States. Thank you, G-d.  Therefore, what better way to express my thanks than to travel to Jerusalem and pray to G-d where it … Read More

Albert Vera, business owner, commissioner and lifelong Culver City resident, today became the first candidate to announce he will seek election to the City Council in April. Mr. Vera, whose father served 12 years on the City Council — 1992-2000 and 2002-2006 — said he hopes to give back to the community that supported him and his family through good … Read More

One of the extraordinary personal comebacks in the 100-year history of Culver City is being essayed this week by Albert Vera. By the time of the City Council election in April, Mr. Vera doubtless will be favored to win one of the three open seats. In a way, it does not matter. He already has scored personal triumphs that would … Read More

[Editor’s Note:   One of the most controversial college administrators in the country, Dr. Mark Rocha, over vehement protests by the City College of San Francisco, has survived a reputation-smudging tenure at Pasadena College to land another plum position, charming a team of trustees. The former West L.A. College president (2006-2010) did not so much leave Pasadena as he fled.]   … Read More

Legendary Culver City businessman John Riordan – as quiet as he is profound – will observe his landmark 90th birthday on Saturday afternoon. Between 2 o’clock and 5 — and beyond — at the Masonic Lodge, 9631 Venice Blvd., next door to “my shop,” his plumbing business, Mr. Riordan will be surrounded by family from Indianapolis, friends and plumbing customers. … Read More

How ironic that on the same day the Los Angeles City Council flashed its odd sense of humor by creating (seriously?) Indigenous Peoples Day, my fiancé and I were having lunch with my farthest left friend. As a conversation opener, I asked him why he was a leftist? He felt threatened. His troubled, evasive, cutesy, avoidance-plagued non-answer eloquently described the … Read More

Serious Jews of Los Angeles have received a long-awaited pre-Shabbos gift. The insecure, egomaniacal, reputation-ruining, anti-religious editor of the Anti-Religious Jewish Journal is out. What took so long? A hard-bitten left-wing extremist who believed liberal politics should trump – excuse the rich term – Judaism, if the editor had any use for Yiddishkeit, he kept it well hidden. Religious families … Read More

Fellow Americans The following was written nearly a half-century ago by an older cousin, Ronald Rosebrock, and published in the Indianapolis Star. Just a few days before his retirement from General Motors 25 years ago, Ronald was tragically killed by a drunken driver in a head-on collision. Nevertheless, Ronald’s profound 10 Commandments guidelines for the Survival of America live on. … Read More

First in a series Judging by the urgent flood of penetrating, diverse questions following a smart and cogent presentation on the very new state of cannabis yesterday morning, many Culver City residents are roaming in a dark space about the soon-to-be legal marijuana enterprise. Young Morgan Sokol of the seven-year-old Culver City cannabis business known as MedMen addressed a middle-aged … Read More

On the way out of Wednesday morning’s cannabis update for Chamber of Commerce members, community activist David Voncannon sent a message: Culver City residents w curious or concerned about marijuana legalization in California and in their hometown as of Jan. 1 need to attend community task force meetings, They should contact Jesse Mays, the assistant to Coty Manager John Nachbar … Read More