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
Only 3½ Decades Later, Says Weissman
Former Mayor Weissman, left, with former Mayor Clarke
[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
Bye, Bye Post Office
The U.S. Postal Service is considering relocating services from the current Main Post Office, 11111 Jefferson Blvd., to a yet-to-be-determined location, as close as possible to the present site. The Postal Service is considering the move because its landlord has issued a termination letter and will not renew the lease. A public meeting will be held to explain the proposal and … Read More
Seven Ways to Increase Local Voter Turnout
Mr. Ehrlich
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
A Closer Look at Sgt. Ansman, Killer
Mr. Camp
First in a series Ten years after National Guard Sgt. Scott Ansman was convicted of fatally bludgeoning a young woman at the Culver City Armory and sentenced to life in prison, a former Ansman aide, with clarity in mind, has stepped forward. His purpose: To demystify some details surrounding the killer who was married with three small children, including a … Read More
An Opinion That Needs a Suit of Armour
Ms. Armour
Nancy Armour belongs to a small professional community. She is a sportswriter for USA Today,. Their employees must sign a Declaration of Dependence, a loyalty pledge to Obama and Tommy (Gun) Steyer, before receiving their first check. Stubborn Nancy (“I know it wasn’t very ladylike”) leaped onto the Colin Kaepernick bandwagon — before it had wheels. She said she was … Read More
Worst Gas Prices in America
California’s gasoline tax rose by 12 cents per gallon last week. AP Photo, Rich Pedroncelli
Republican George Runner predicted in April that California’s gas tax hike would catapult the Golden State’s already high fuel prices to the “highest in the nation,” after the increase went into effect on Nov. 1. It appears his prediction was spot-on. California’s average per gallon price of gasoline reached $3.21 on Monday, 12 cents higher than in Hawaii, which previously … Read More
Polystyrene So Temptingly Available, Says Rose
In the middle of his final week as president/CEO of the Chamber of Commerce after 30 years, Steve Rose, a critic of the new polystyrene ban, has a question for City Hall: “Why is such a small community taking a stiff stand against polystyrene when it is easily reachable (just over the city border in Los Angeles and elsewhere)?” Not … Read More
Plan B Groundbreaking
Here is a story you have read before: There will be yet another Plan B groundbreaking Wednesday morning at 10 in the beating heart – but wearying body – of Downtown. Throughout this still young century, ground has been broken so many times that the turf and shovels have been on a first-name basis for the last few years. … Read More
What Is That Odor? Another Obama Scandal
The Justice Dept. of honest U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions last week was ordered to pay out millions of dollars to 428 conservative groups persecuted by the conservative-hating and urgently dishonest Obama Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and the criminal Obama IRS. The right-wing groups had applied for tax-exempt status, a common, almost automatic procedure – if you are on the … Read More