Wendy Taylor

Work began last week on repairing the abandoned oil well at the still-shuttered Culver City Dog Park, and it is proceeding on schedule.

The County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has spent tens of millions of dollars in legal fees in recent years and had few controls in place to evaluate or limit the expenditures, according to an audit released by the agency’s Inspector General. The audit was a response to a motion introduced by County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and Mayor Villaraigosa at a Metro meeting last February.

I went to my local polling place yesterday only to discover I was not on the voters' roll.

State Sen. Curren D. Price, Jr., (D-Culver City) gave the keynote address at a meeting of the Information Alliance for Education at the Microsoft offices in Mountain View on Tuesday on the theme:

In these tough times of deep cuts to state funding, especially funding for the arts, the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at Culver City High School, dance students put their training, spirit, and passion to dance to work on Sunday at Dance-A-Thon 2010.

The joys of urban farming will descend on Downtown all day on Saturday when the first annual HomeGrown Culver City event celebrates backyard edible gardening, sustainable gardening and an ecological lifestyle.

Arriving almost two months earlier than usual, Culver City will get into step with other California communities by conducting its annual Disaster Drill on Thursday evening at 7 o’clock.

[Editor’s Note: State Sen. Price is running for re-election on Nov. 2.]

As City Hall announced two weeks ago, the Dog Park has been closed since Tuesday, Sept. 28 due to the seepage of liquid and the presence of very low concentrations of methane gas (which, according to the city’s consultants, do not pose a risk to public health or safety).

Unanimous approval was given yesterday to a motion that County Supervisors say will strengthen the regulation of Mobile Food Facilities, while at the same time, educate the public and encourage mobile vendors to offer healthy alternatives to consumers throughout the County.