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Open Your Wallets. The Taxman Cometh

I took a look at the City Council's "proposed parcel tax" to help pay for our part of the unfunded federal mandate from the...

Sahli-Wells Is Looking For a Second

It seems quite obvious by its latest lock-step, liberal endorsements that any democratic values the Culver City Democratic Club once held have been tossed...

Rain, Rain – Where Are You?

While falling asleep last night, I began thinking that the news reports have not shown the usual comparison of this year's rainfall with the annual...

Centaurs Break Through Against Hawthorne

With additional reporting by Steve Finley.  Culver City High School recorded its first Ocean League basketball win last Friday, 79-51 over Hawthorne. At 1-3 in league...

Can Liberal Win Without Bullet Voting?

Meghan Sahli-Wells says she wants to combine local elections with state and federal elections to increase local participation in our City Council and School...

A Bullet-Riddled Election

Having only three candidates running for two open seats for the School Board last week is one of the best scenarios in looking at...

Bullet Voting, a 45 Percent Factor

(See PDF here.) Notes from Tuesday’s School Board election when Prof. Kelly Kent (1888 votes) and Anne Burke (1461) won two open seats: I was just...

Dr. Kent and Mystery of The Pledge

I took reader Patrick Meighan's suggestion to reach out to Dr. Kelly Kent's School Board campaign and asked for an informal, face-to-face meeting. She and...

13 Centaurs Set Personal Bests

When Culver City High School’s cross country team ran in the Ocean League cluster meet No. 2 at Rancho Park last Thursday, nine boys and...

Don’t Let STRS Get in Your Eyes

Our District's Future with STRS Increases In the past, it was one thing while the rate for CalSTRS, the public school educators’ pension fund, held constant at...