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Seems Uncomplicated: Getting Your Child to School Safely

When I was a member of the School Board, annually we spoke about the http://www.walktoschool.org/ program that ultimately puts the responsibility on...

Dems Deserve Most, but Not All, of the Blame for Budget...

The goal of our state Republican leaders is primarily a fiscal one.

I like to think of their jobs as doing everything in their power to strengthen the family unit by preserving as much of their combined earnings as possible.

It is unfortunate that the Democrats don't see it this way.

Worst Threat to America

Every summer the major Hollywood studios roll out a slate of blockbusters.

You know the ones — mega stars with non-stop action, all of those “how did they do that” special effects.

‘They Were Trying to Kill Finizza’ on the Night of the...

[Editor’s Note: Here is the latest and most unusual testimony yet that the newspaper has received regarding St. Patrick’s Day stabbing suspect Justin Finizza, who is charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon for an incident behind two well-known bars near the corner of Sepulveda and Jefferson in south Culver City.]

New Course at West Will Trace the History of Farmworkers

West Los Angeles College, with the support of the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute, has added a new course exploring the social and political history of working people in California through films, literature and poetry.

Russia Has the Gun, the Goods and Tells the World, ‘Stick...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, followed by the subsequent tumble of the Soviet Union, the world was jubilant. Good had triumphed over evil; the West had prevailed over the East. We celebrated the new chaos and cheered our status as the only remaining superpower.

West’s Cinema Festinal Today Will Showcase Fresh Creative Talent

West Los Angeles College, whose campus was once part of the MGM Backlot, has been injecting new energy and resources into its Cinema program recently.

Parks Is Going for a Smoking Ban Everywhere

[Editor’s Note: Los Angeles City Councilmember Bernard C. Parks Planned to introduce a motion to the Council today that would include a proposal for a smoking ban for all of Los Angeles City and County, limiting public exposure to secondhand smoke in public areas, including but not limited to indoor and outdoor businesses, hotels, parks, apartment common areas, restaurants, bars and beaches.]

Jerry’s Final Fight

[Editor’s Note: This is the second of two parts of a tribute the actress, who starred last Saturday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in her long-running one-woman show, “The Need to Know,” wrote last December about Jerry Schnitzer, a Culver City activist, one month after he died on Nov. 11. Part 1, “The Only Way Their Love Could Die,” ran yesterday. Keyword: Schnitzer.]

The Only Way Their Love Could Die

[Editor’s Note: The actress, who starred last Saturday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in her long-running one-woman show, “The Need to Know,” wrote this loving tribute to a Culver City activist when he died last December.]