Editor's Essays
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Because They Are BlackBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM November 08, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays One of the most compelling and under-covered stories in Los Angeles this autumn is the Crenshaw neighborhood’s fight with MTA to win one mere mile of subway through a commercial/school stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard and a station at busy Leimert Park. read |
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Zirgulis and Abrams — Should They Drop Out of the Race?By Ari L. Noonan @ 9:00 AM October 26, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Too bad for Robert Zirgulis and Gary Abrams that last night’s School Board meeting was not rained out. read |
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When a Palestinian Comes to Culver CityBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM September 20, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Culver City will have a front row seat on Sunday afternoon for a huge world event: read |
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The Deceitful Book ReviewerBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM September 16, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Many will disagree, but the most fascinating question in life is “why” — why do people, good and bad, do what they do? : read |
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Middle Class — Say It Fast as You Can, Before It DisappearsBy Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM September 12, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays If today’s Democrats had lived in 1911 instead of 2011, when scarcely any technology was available, you could picture this obsessive-compulsive scene: read |
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If You Can’t Save All Employees, At Least Save Me. I Am Important.By Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM September 08, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Re “Culver City, the Odd 1 Percent Community for Health Benefits” Re “Mr. Malsin: Oh, No, Not Again. Oh, No, Not Again. Oh…” read |
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Welcome to the New Principal — Day TwoBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM September 07, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Fastest way to roadblock the determined graying process is to follow me onto the sunshaded Culver City High School campus on Day Two of the new term. read |
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Mr. Malsin: Oh, No, Not Again. Oh, No, Not Again. Oh…By Ari L. Noonan @ 9:00 AM September 02, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Re “Malsin Accuses City Hall of Miscalculations” read |
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What to Make of the Councilman and His Impersonal EssayBy Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM August 26, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Re “Exceptions Should be Made for Senior City Workers, Malsin Says” When a well-known figure around City Hall finished reading City Councilman Scott Malsin’s seemingly self-serving blast-the-city essay yesterday in the Culver City News, he cracked sardonically: “Scott never has been accused of being a team player, and here he goes again.” If the members of the City Council are to be viewed as evenly and faceless as the four anonymous black tires on your car, Mr. Malsin is the whitewalled, wirespokes exception.read |
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Bald, Bold and IntimidatingBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM August 10, 2011Found in: Editor's Essays Last time I asked a political friend why the state Legislature needs to be in session more than 30 days a year, she frowned and said, as if we were being overheard, that she concurred with my conclusion. “But please don’t attribute that to me.” read |










