Op-Ed

	Can Cubas Convince a Majority Tomorrow? By Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM May 20, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed Given the sleek technology that underpins even thumb-sized campaigns, Ana Cubas is being honest rather than stylish when she talks about her old-fashioned, door-to-door campaign to upend Curren D. Price Jr. tomorrow for the vacant 9th District seat on the Los Angeles City Council.read
	Is Ev-ery-bo-dy Hap-py? By George Laase @ 8:00 AM May 20, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed At their last meeting, our School Board voted to give all School District employees a 2 percent raise. Teachers Union President David Mielke was so sure of the outcome of the vote, that he thanked the board ahead of time, even before it was taken and went home early.read
	Despite Raise Approval, Culver Teachers Still Are Trailing By Letters to the Editor @ 1:00 PM May 17, 2013 Found in: Letters Regarding George Laase’s series this week, let’s not begrudge Culver City teachers and classified employees a 2 percent raise. For gosh sakes, they haven't been given a raise for the last three years.read
	Cubas Draws a Bright Red Line Between Her Beliefs and Price’s By Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM May 17, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed As if he hadn’t entered the race last October with an acknowledged advantage over six rivals – largely because of his Sacramento profile –Curren Price roars into Tuesday’s runoff for the 9th Council District in South Los Angeles fueled by a vault full of funding poured in by the biggest labor players in town.read
	The Mysterious Droppings By Robert Ebsen @ 8:00 AM May 17, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed Starting four days ago, each time I opened the kitchen cabinet where our dishes sit, I noticed what looked like animal droppings or bits of spices on the top plates.read
	Feuer on the Wrong Side of Veterans vs. Brentwood Owners Dispute By Robert L. Rosebrock @ 8:00 AM May 17, 2013 Found in: Robert Rosebrock On these sacred grounds where Veterans, dating from the Civil War, walked proudly, there now are a public dog park, public recreation park, public golf course, public botanical garden, private school playground and athletic field, a wealthy kids’ soccer field, commercial hotel laundry facilities, commercial car rental and bus lots, along with the proposed public community park and other scandalous misappropriations that have inflicted even more serious injury onto our disabled Veterans who remain homeless.read
	Sixth Anniversary of My Bliss By Shachar @ 7:00 AM May 17, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed Dateline Jerusalem – Instead of sleeping the way normal people do at midnight, I am sitting at my computer trying to think of a topic to write about for this week's article. Writer's block has fogged my brain. I made aliyah almost six years ago. I have been writing weekly emails and articles about my experiences in Israel ever since, as well as observations and sometimes political commentary. I initially wrote to family and close friends. Often they would forward my essays to their family and friends. It has snowballed, and now..read
	Candidate Scorecard: Garcetti a ‘C,’ Greuel a ‘B+’ on Crenshaw Rail Tunnel By Damien Goodmon @ 5:00 PM May 16, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed After a detailed examination of the candidates, including closed-door interviews with both Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel, the community group that has led the advocacy efforts for a Leimert Park Village Station and 11-block Crenshaw Boulevard tunnel on the Crenshaw-LAX light rail line has released their scorecard of the two mayoral candidates ahead of Tuesday’s runoff.read
	Should You Vote for Wendy Because She Is Not a Man? By Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM May 16, 2013 Found in: Editor's Essays According to the freshest polling, Los Angeles City Attorney challenger Mike Feuer (35 to 24) and City Controller contender Dennis Zine (33 to 18) hold safe leads going into Tuesday’s election, leaving the mayor’s race as the last citywide office packing perspiration drama. The flaky Daily News – surely it was a joke – tried to tilt the final score toward Wendy Greuel this morning in its lead editorial, headlined, “Why gender has a place in mayor’s race.” Intriguing. For serious people, how could that be so?read
	Cubas Has a Tall Wall – of Color – to Scale in the 9th District By Ari L. Noonan @ 12:00 PM May 16, 2013 Found in: Op-Ed Between now and when the polls close on Tuesday evening at 8, don’t let anyone tell you that ethnicity is not the overwhelming factor in the tense runoff to represent the 9th District in South Los Angeles on the City Council. With a black man squaring off against a Latina, this is a race made for the ‘hood that has gone from 55-45 percent black in the early ’90s to a whopping 75 percent Latin today.read