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Neighbor Chides Activist

As your neighbor, I want to thank Chip Netzel for the article a few days ago on park workers doing personal work on city time.

The only question I have is, Chip, where were you when people from all over the city helped to clean up your neighborhood park, El Marino?

In Letter to County, Kutcher Seeks to Extend Oil Drilling Comment...

[Editor’s Note: Kenneth Kutcher, one of two principal voices in Culver Crest inveighing against mechanical, lockstep approval by the County of an oil drilling rule book designed by the oil drilling company in question, dispatched the following letter to County offices yesterday. In light of Saturday’s crucial meeting of the County Regional Planning Commission at 12 noon at West Los Angeles College, Mr. Kutcher’s plea to extend the public comment period before drilling resumes, is timely.]

Cancer Risk Grows Exponentially if PXP Proceeds Unchallenged?

At high noon on Saturday at West L.A. College, Room 100, Fine Arts, 9000 Overland Ave., the L.A. County Regional Planning Commission wants your comments to help the County decide on regulations for the proposed drilling of another thousand-plus oil wells in our area.

Will Cars Be Brought Under the No-Smoking Umbrella?

em>­Re ‘No–Smoking Ban Far from a Cinch — Mayor Finds It Unnecessary,’ July 21.

Something to make you say hmmm... ­

Kudos for Yvonne, and Forget What PXP Is Doing

Regarding the recent discussions about the Community Standards District being promulgated by Los Angeles County for the Baldwin Hills oil drilling area:

I give a lot of credit to our County Supervisor, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, for coming up with the idea of a CSD.

Protesting the Perils of Tenting Buildings for Termites

The homeowners association board of Beverlywood West in Culver City and a sizable plurality of the homeowners are currently locked in a bitter struggle over whether all the buildings in the complex should be tented for termites.

PXP Oil Drilling: Kutcher Petitions County for Fairness in Three Areas

[Editor’s Note: With the first two informational meetings on oil drilling in the Culver Crest area coming up Thursday night at 7 (at a private residence) and Friday night at 7 (3731 Stocker St.), Ken Kutcher, a leader of a group of concerned Crest citizens, sent the following letter yesterday to the County Planning Commission.]

Did the City Manager Truly Sacrifice When He Agreed...

Re ‘Don’t Loan Slippery Sal a Dollar —She May Grab Your Wallet,’ Editor’s Essay, July 1. Keyword: Richardson

Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-South Bay, Long Beach) was pulling the same scam that City Manager Jerry Fulwood is using.

A Bundle of Questions to be Answered Before...

In Wednesday’s Community Update about residents complaining about Downtown employees parking on their streets, you state the staff has been charged with evaluating if increased fines would help.

The answer is, it is only one part of a solution.

Not Good for Our Reputation?

Re Today’s The Lowdown

Last I knew Mehaul O’Leary was a City Council Member.

He has not even been Mayor yet, but in today's “The Lowdown,” the newspaper has declared him "King O’Leary".