When Religion Is Not Out of Bounds

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

Speaking as a religious Jew, the most disheartening turn of the Presidential campaign has been the brazen daily mockery by the Angry Left of Mitt Romney’s religion.

Will the Sol Ever Shine Again Over Culver City?

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

With undeniable clarity and enviable eloquence, Sol Blumenfeld, perhaps the most under-rated orator in our town, explained – scenically, modestly – to a Chamber of Commerce breakfast yesterday how drastically the Redevelopment Agency has rearranged and upgraded Culver City just in the last four years.

Trivializing Racism

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

Before the magnificent King Day ceremonies began on Sunday afternoon, David Weisman, a pillar of the Culver City Democratic Club, was wondering why left-wing talk radio has been an historic oxymoron.

Culver City Cops and the National Guard: Was Either at Fault?

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

In the opening rounds of the Bennett-Harris family’s civil suit against the California National Guard in the murder of their sibling, playing out in a Downtown courtroom, even an objective observer can be shocked by the inertia that froze the Culver City Police Dept. and the Guard four years ago last summer.

Who Is Driving the School Bus?

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

Rudderless is the dominant concept of the new School Board.

Members should spend the rest of the month collecting training wheels, canes, crutches, skateboards, discount sailing lessons, water wings — any device that will keep the leaderless Board from drowning.