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When the City Clerk’s office announced on Monday that the nomination period – 23 days to go – had opened for candidates for April’s City Council election, there was no need to brace for a stampede. Culver City turned noiseless. By the newspapers, there is a healthy field of contenders for the seats that will open when  Jim Clarke and … Read More

Second in a series Re “Jerusalem Belongs to the Whole World, Says Rabbi” It is fair to challenge how seriously Neil Comess-Daniels, a well-regarded longtime liberal rabbi in Santa Monica, takes his Judaism. Not very, to be succinct. In a bizarre, ill-timed, ill-worded,  rambling, address at the Islamic Center of Southern California hours after President Trump declared Jerusalem the capital … Read More

Fourth in a series Re “Mr. Gourley’s Last Lousy Job”  Hardly anyone speaks more plainly than the attorney Steve Gourley. Reflecting recently on the homestretch of his notable public career, Mr. Gourley poured a glass of vinegar and said: “After being beaten up in Sacramento during my time as head of the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, I had to go … Read More

Imagine a random journalist who covers Congress for two decades. Twenty years on, he still is reportng that the Constitution was written in 1976.  Speedily, the original copy was driven to over to the Capitol in a shiny black ’76 Cadillac. This kind of sloppiness is what we unlucky monitors of the erratic Los Angeles Times are asked to digest, … Read More

First in a series For the next nine months, in honor of the traditional gestation period, Culver City residents have been invited to debate their preferred locations for three recreational cannabis retail stores. Heading into his final four months on the City Council before being termed out, Jim Clarke is going away with a roar. Standing stoutly with the safety … Read More

Second in a series Re “A Closer Look at Sgt. Ansman, Killer” [Editor’s Note: In May 2009, Sgt. Scott Ansman, former National Guard member, was sentenced to life in prison for the Aug. 24, 2007, murder of Joanne Crystal Harris and her unborn child at the Culver City Armory.] Last month a former aide to convicted killer National Guard Sgt. … Read More

Despite the mainstream media’s fanatical hatred of President Trump, their fanatical – and scripted – response to his official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is 90-95 percent anti-Semitism. Most of the world hates Jews. The sky is blue. So? You only need a thumb to count the governments standing with Mr. Trump. Funniest punchline since Carol Burnet left weekly … Read More

I suppose because I still have a mom I let myself feel like a kid. And by the way, to act like a kid sometimes, too. Mom’s 100th birthday was yesterday. For weeks I was busy planning the party, largely from the standpoint of kids.  I know. It was a party for a hundred-year-old, not for kids. But I so … Read More

The eight-day festival of Chanukah – which ends Wednesday — celebrates the unlikely victory of the Jews in their biblical heartland against overwhelming odds for liberation and preservation of their identity and religion. The Maccabees fought against the Syrian-Greek Empire because of the desecration of Jewish holy sites and attempts to extinguish the Jewish religion and identity. The victory it … Read More

Fellow Veterans and Friends of Veterans, A front-page essay in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times is about the recent Bel-Air fire that destroyed multi-million-dollar mansions, and a homeless encampment purportedly nearby that is accused of starting it. Since the purported homeless encampment apparently vanished in the fire, the Times went across the 405 Freeway and took a photo of a homeless … Read More