Op-Ed
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The Council Meeting Looked Stacked, and Public Notification Became Less ImportantBy Tom Supple @ 9:00 AM November 17, 2008Found in: Op-Ed One of the decisions at the Nov. 10 City Council meeting left me concerned. An item on that meeting’s agenda dealt with approving a contract with an organization to accept stray animals picked up in Culver City. The animals picked up in Culver City can now be taken to a shelter in Hawthorne instead of the Carson shelter. It was not the item itself that concerned me but the process it went through before coming to the City Council. read |
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Hearkening Back to Those 1950s’ Riots Over Gay MarriageBy Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM November 17, 2008Found in: Editor's Essays After the recent massive electoral loss by the Republican Party, it is amusing to see a suddenly embattled battalion of apparent winners reeling because, in the midst of hoisting He Who Is Without Sin to his rightful throne, they lost an oh-by-the-way fight over Prop. 8 and traditional marriage. read |
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Gays, Looking a Little Shy on Courage, Avoid One Certain Neighborhood. Hmm.By Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM November 14, 2008Found in: Editor's Essays The best publicized — and most embarrassing — piece of data to emerge in the wake of Prop. 8’s victory was that 70 percent of black Californians voted to uphold traditional marriage. One devoutly loyal liberal faction deserted a naive liberal faction that foolishly assumed liberals were monolithic in their beliefs. read |
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‘Cruel Attack’ on Silbiger Is DecriedBy Letters to the Editor @ 11:00 AM November 14, 2008Found in: Letters From Beverly Polokoff Re ‘As the County Says ‘Yes’ to City Hall, Never Underestimate the Influence of a Mob.’ Nov. 13. Your attack on Vice Mayor Gary Silbiger is one of the most cruel items you have written. You can disagree with someone (as you often do), without that kind of personal attack. Culver City needs something to replace their contract with the Carson shelter. read |
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How Wonderful to be a Citizen of Not One but Two CountriesBy Shachar @ 7:00 AM November 14, 2008Found in: Op-Ed Dateline Jerusalem — I voted for President via overseas absentee ballot. Although I have been sick (sore throat and bad cough), I went out and walked to the Post Office in the thunderstorm we had here in Israel in order to mail my ballot. read |
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Sorry to See Esterly LeaveBy Letters to the Editor @ 4:00 PM November 13, 2008Found in: Letters From Wirt Morton Re ‘Farewell to a Comrade,’ Nov. 12. Keywords: Glenn Esterly.] I, too, am sorry to hear that Glenn Esterly will be leaving the journalistic enclave reporting on Culver City. read |
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The Only Thing We Had to Fear Were — Obama Losers and Gay Losers. Duck, Boys, Here Comes the Mob.By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM November 13, 2008Found in: Op-Ed You may recall the electorate held two worries about civil unrest as Nov. 4 arrived: • What would happen if Barack Obama lost? |
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As the County Says ‘Yes’ to City Hall, Never Underestimate the Influence of a MobBy Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM November 13, 2008Found in: Op-Ed [For background on the state of Culver City’s embryonic animal control program, see City Manager Jerry Fulwood’s report to the City Council at the end of this story.] read |
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Thank You, Friends of the Animals. Now We Can Race Ahead with Licensing and Micro-Chipping.By Chip Netzel @ 6:00 AM November 13, 2008Found in: Op-Ed I’d like to extend a personal thanks to the Friends of Culver City Animals and Los Angeles County for solving an overwhelming problem in the city of Culver City. First, a little background is in order. read |
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Meet a Republican Candidate Who Often Acts Like a DemocratBy Thomas D. Elias @ 6:00 AM November 13, 2008Found in: Op-Ed There are plenty of good reasons why state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has the next Republican nomination for governor all but locked up. And there are a host of other reasons why the better-known Democrats now thinking of trying for their party’s nod to run against him should not be taking victory for granted, despite the big Democratic voter registration edge that has made California a “blue” state in the last five Presidential elections. read |