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If You Are Counting Errors, Please Don’t — Unless It’s Obama’s Latest Whopper


Editor's Essays

If mistakes were wallpaper, we could cover Culver City this afternoon, something we endeavor to do 5 days week anyway. Ring up one more gaffe.

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When Joey and I Were in Middle School


Op-Ed

Before hearing last weekend that Joey Lutz had drowned in Panama, I had not seen or talked to him in over 8 years.

However, there are some people who are so electric, that specific things that they do and say stay with you for years, regardless of the level of continuing contact.

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Sweet Memories of Joey Lutz


Op-Ed
From Sanda Hibbard
[Editor’s Note: The widely admired teacher Joey Lutz, 25 years old, who graduated in 2000 from Culver City High School, drowned last weekend while on holiday in Panama. Mr. Lutz’s parents, Stuart and Freda Lutz, reside in Culver City. Funeral services are yet to be finalized at Hillside Memorial Park. In this essay, a former student recalls their golden days at summer camp.]

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Will Cars Be Brought Under the No-Smoking Umbrella?


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

Something to make you say hmmm... ­

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Struggling to Identify the True Victims of the Massacre of Armenians


Dr. Rosemary Cohen

Conclusion

[Previously: ‘Leila’s Unique Loveliness Spanned the Years of Their Happy Marriage,’ July 21. Keywords: Dr. Ali, Leila.]

Dr. Ali’s two sons followed their father’s profession and became physicians.

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Silbiger Makes the Chatter Lively at the End of Every Meeting


News

During the 3 months that the majority new City Council has been in office, one of the holdovers, Vice Mayor Gary Silbiger, consistently has turned the closing minutes into the most entertaining portion of the meeting.

First-year Councilman Mehaul O’Leary probably has been the most outspoken voice on the dais. He criticized Mr. Silbiger for his so-called harangues at the end of meetings and that he belabors certain subjects. Make your points and move on, was Mr. O’Leary’s attitude.

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Camarella and Karlo Carry Stains No Dry Cleaner Can Remove


Editor's Essays

The City Council did not make bad choices last night — just wrong ones, quite wrong ones — for appointments to 2 city commissions, Civil Service, and Parks and Recreation.

The reason for their very personal gaffe is not a mystery, just an exasperation. The result of their tilted voting — the overt snubbing of the candidates Tom Camarella and Karlo Silbiger — was as predictable as the Gregorian calendar or, in my case, ex-wives.

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Council Makes Ochoa, Kim Surprise Choices for Commission Seats


News

The City Council fooled every speculator in town last night with single-seat appointments to three city commissions.

They blew up formfulness, which has been the Council’s trademark, whereby friendships with private persons who carry high or rising profiles around City Hall are rewarded.

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Culver High Grad’s Body Is Found


News

On Sunday, two days after a businessman pleaded with readers to contact the son of a Culver City family if they knew of his whereabouts in Panama, where he had been traveling on vacation for 3 weeks, a Panamanian fisherman discovered the dead body of Joey Lutz when it washed ashore about 2 miles from where he had drowned

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What Times Is It? Who Knows? But It Ain’t McCain’s, for Sure


Editor's Essays

With 98 percent of American media openly rooting for Barack Obama to win the White House, and 92 percent of them volunteering to drive him there, Mr. Obama’s campaign has just scored another unique victory.

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