Letters

	Too Few Parking Spaces for New Double Building Project on Jefferson? By Letters to the Editor @ 9:00 AM August 22, 2008 Found in: Letters By George Young RE A public hearing before the Planning Commission, Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7 o’clock, regarding two proposed 3-story office complexes at 9919 Jefferson Blvd., featuring a “small” space in the front building devoted to restaurant/retail, and two-level subterranean parking.read
	A Fat Chance That You Were as Funny as You Thought You Were By Letters to the Editor @ 8:00 AM August 21, 2008 Found in: Letters From George Laase Have you lost your mind? You were way off base in linking these powerful legislative positions of Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass and U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson to their weight.read
	In Memory of the Siegels By Letters to the Editor @ 8:00 AM August 20, 2008 Found in: Letters From Dawn Burns I want to thank the newspaper for all the rich, colorful writing that it published on Adele and Henry Siegel over the years. As I sit here in Indiana, where I moved from Culver City in 2005, I am deeply saddened by the loss of both Adele and Henry. read
	Time Running Out to Comment on Oil Drilling By Letters to the Editor @ 9:00 AM August 13, 2008 Found in: Letters From Dr. Suzanne De Benedittis Speak now or live with the consequences Whether you are for or against more oil drilling in the Baldwin Hills, your voice will count only until next Tuesday, Aug. 19, the date the public comment period closes. read
	Refusing to Back Off, Kutcher Presses County for Answers to 34 Unaddressed Questions By Letters to the Editor @ 9:00 AM August 12, 2008 Found in: Letters From Kenneth L. Kutcher [Editor’s Note: With the deadline for public comment on expanded drilling in the Baldwin Hills oil field looming one week from today, land-use attorney Kenneth L. Kutcher has led a Culver Crest-based citizens campaign demanding, he says, accountability for strict regulation by Los Angeles County. Yesterday, he directed the following letter — his fourth — to two County agencies he said have not responded to nearly three dozen questions of importance to residents within the orbit of the oil field. Meanwhile, the next community meeting on the oil drilling dispute will be 6 o’clock Thursday evening at the Consolidated Board of Realtors, 3725 Don Felipe Dr. On Wednesday at 6:30, the City Council will vote on a resolution it will file with County officials.] read
	In Latest Letter to County, Kutcher Argues Against PXP’s ‘Vested Right’ to Drill New Wells By Letters to the Editor @ 3:00 PM August 11, 2008 Found in: Letters From Kenneth L. Kutcher [Editor’s Note: Continuing his aggressive, summer-long campaign to urge Los Angeles County to adopt strict oil drilling regulations in the Baldwin Hills oil field, Culver Crest resident/attorney Kenneth L. Kutcher dispatched a third exhaustively researched and detailed letter to the County Planning Commission last Friday. This followed on the heels of equally minutely detailed letters to the County, published here on July 8 and on July 30. (Keyword: Kutcher.) In the present 3,580-word letter, Mr. Kutcher criticizes claims made by the oil drilling company’s lawyer, and he proposes remedies.] read
	Ridley-Thomas Pledges Support to Crest Neighbors for Comment Period Extension By Letters to the Editor @ 8:00 AM August 06, 2008 Found in: Letters From Eric F. Boyd [Editor’s Note: Here is the first response yesterday from any elected official to a distress letter sent out this week by Mike Bauer, President of the Culver Crest Neighborhood Assn., to hundreds of residents and community leaders, vigorously objecting to the way last Saturday’s oil drilling forum at West Los Angeles College was run.] read
	Belatedly, I Have Realized Schools, and My Children, Will Be at Risk with Drilling By Letters to the Editor @ 7:00 AM August 06, 2008 Found in: Letters From Denise Clary Re The 6 articles and commentaries published on Monday and Tuesday regarding concerns for and regulations that will govern oil drilling in the Culver City-adjacent Baldwin Hills oil field. read
	Steaming Ex-Mayor Warns Burke ‘There’s a Fire on the Hill’ By Letters to the Editor @ 2:00 PM August 05, 2008 Found in: Letters From Alan Corlin [Editor’s Note: In the wake of Saturday’s heavily criticized community meeting on oil drilling, former Mayor Alan Corlin fired off the following 667-word email to County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke on Sunday night.] read
	In Protest, Crest President Launches Email Campaign to Burke’s Office, Pleading for Extension By Letters to the Editor @ 10:00 AM August 05, 2008 Found in: Letters From Mike Bauer To All Culver Crest and Vicinity Residents: Thank you to the many of you who showed up (for Saturday’s community meeting at West L.A College on oil drilling), and unfortunately only the few of you who participated (through no fault of yours but because of time constraints) in the L.A. County Regional Hearing RE: the PXP issue. As you can see by the letter written to Supervisor Burke below, we were very displeased at the outcome of the hearing. There wasn't enough time allotted, and the format was disorderly (the format being, the first one to grab a speaker’s seat can talk). read