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Paspalis Agrees with Gov. Brown’s Funding Plan


News

Fourth in a series. For the last two years of her first term on the School Board, Kathy Paspalis, attorney who is running for re-election, has been its most unique member – the only non-educator. She acknowledges that her four years have been a heavy learning experience, and rewarding. She immediately established a reputation for...read

Is It Possible the President Really Did Not Know?


Op-Ed

We are asked to believe that President Obama was unaware of the felonious mischief that surrounds him, from his lying attorney general Eric Holder, to the team of pompous liars infecting the IRS, to the constructors of the ever-changing fairy tale that passes as the President’s excuse for purposely avoiding any contact with the electoral disease that was Benghazi last Sept. 11.read

While Battling Anti-Semitism, the Joys of Scouting in Israel


Op-Ed

Dateline Jerusalem – I had always heard about Israel's famous Scouts, called Tzofim, and I wondered if the organization was connected to the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts of the USA or the international Scouts. I was a Girl Scout, early in elementary school, a Brownie, called Ofer in Israel. My mother was my Brownie troop leader. I was the leader for one of my daughters, and that daughter is the Girl Scout leader for my granddaughter's Brownie troop. While visiting family in the USA this week, I attended my granddaughter's troop meeting. This experience evoked...read

Baby Bok Choy – Oh, Boy!


Op-Ed

Let’s see. How did it come about that for the past two weeks I have been buying, and consuming, lots of baby bok choy? Could it be that I am connected genetically somehow to baby bok choy? Could it be that I have an atavistic gustatory connection to my childhood memories of drinking (and eating) soup containing bok choy in Chinese restaurants? Could it be that...read

Average Salaries: Culver City vs. L.A. County


George Laase

For the first seven years of the spreadsheet below, the Culver City USD remained with or ahead of the Los Angeles County average in salaries. Then the Great Recession hit, severely affecting California’s economy. The state’s housing market collapsed, foreclosures soared, the state’s tax base shrank and the state Legislature cut spending by deferring funds from K-12 school districts. In response to the state’s continued deferrals of funding, the CCUSD found it necessary to negotiate five furlough days in 2010-11 and four days in 2011-12.read

Death Penalty, My Experience And the Jodi Arias Case


Dr. Rosemary Cohen

About the Ten Commandments: For Jews, the 49-day Counting of the Omer – a Torah-based ritual, starting the second day of Passover – ended last week. Counting the Omer each day, after sundown, represents spiritual preparation and anticipation for the receiving of the Torah, which was given by God on Mount Sinai at the beginning of the month of Sivan.read

School Board More Efficient Than One Before, Silbiger Says


News

Third in a series. A School Board member is elected, typically, for what he or she believes, without necessarily factoring in how the person’s ideas may play with a team of disparate colleagues. Even if the candidate’s philosophy is irresistible, will he be able to create a consensus with more than half of his colleagues?read

Huge Victory for Crenshaw – Leimert Park Station Approved


Letters

By Damien Goodmon. Did you hear the news? This morning the MTA board voted to fully fund a subway station at Leimert Park on the Crenshaw Line: Yes, Virginia, there will be a Leimert Park station on the upcoming Crenshaw/LAX light rail Line.read

Let Me Snivel One More Time, Says Wendy


Editor's Essays

Next to whining Wendy Greuel, the funniest post-election mortem was coughed up by the Los Angeles Titanic’s Jim Newton. His Uncle Sir Isaac must have bounced one of his trademark rotten apples off nephew’s cranium. Listing five reasons Ms. Greuel’s ramshackle campaign for mayor flopped like a fat lady in a broken beach chair, No. 2 was...read

This Won’t Take Long Did It?


Op-Ed

The least imaginative political minds on the Westside and in South Los Angeles convened this morning. They broke their huddle and, dully, began touting state Assemblyperson Holly Mitchell (D-Culver City) for Culver City’s vacant state Senate seat – as reported here earlier. For sheer importance, this dust-laden strategy is analogous to the newest boxboy at your least favorite supermarket changing his month-old sox – because his mother burnt the filthy ones.read


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