George Laase

Back in 1994, CBS Sports bought the rights to the NCAA men's basketball tournament with an eight-year contract averaging $215 million annually. This coming...

The Culver City High School girls’ soccer team kicked off the season with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Notre Dame Academy on Monday at the Jerry Chabola Field. Their next home game will be Friday at 5 against Lynwood. When the Lady Centaurs were warming up for their opener, Coach Scott Mair looked concerned.

The Culver City High School girls’ volleyball team lost a heartbreaking match to a tenacious Elsinore team, three games to two last Saturday night inside the Del Goodyear Gym on campus. The narrow defeat left the players and fans buzzing well after the match was over.

Last Saturday the Culver City High School football teams played their fall scrimmage. The freshmen, junior varsity and varsity teams showcased their talent in front of proud parents and enthusiastic coaches. After five hours of football, the No. 1 theme of the night appeared to be:

The Culver City High School football team completed a successful seven-on- seven passing league summer last Tuesday, edging University, 14-7. After the home game, summer workouts conclude this week. The Centaurs will take a ...

Supt. Dave La Rose’s explanation this morning of our School District's budgetary “deficit spending” was good. But it also brought out other District fiscal facts that were surprising to hear, especially just before the community votes on the School Board’s $106M bond, Measure CC.

As we get closer to Election Day on Tuesday, supporters of Measure CC, the school bond issue, will be bombarding local voters with absolutes and predictions of dire consequences in case of defeat. They will claim the sky will fall if Measure CC doesn't pass.

Not everybody in our small community has the time to fully study and comprehend the municipal bonds linked to Measure CC in Tuesday’s election. I knew that my fiscal revelations about the School Board’s Measure CC not being a good fiscal fit for our community were not going to be popular or quite as obvious to see as Hans Christian Anderson’s naive young lad blurting out the naked truth. But it was my duty to my hometown to say ...

This year our community’s assessed valuation is set at a little over $8B, making our “bond sweet spot” $72M. The bond consultants knew this. So did School Board members. Instead of keeping Measure CC within our own means, Board members decided to add another $34M beyond our sweet spot. This made it necessary to resort to using interest-only payments over the first half of the repayment schedule.

In the past, our community has shown that it will pay to support our children’s education. We passed Measures T (80 percent) and EE (74 percent). But we don't want to spend more than necessary. When a School Board member tells us not to give Measure CC’s financing a second thought, he sounds like a fast-talking salesman urging you to sign his contract and not worry about ...