You may take your ear away from the ground.
It does not look as if there is going to be a thud anytime soon around City Hall.
Deep into the ubiquitous fiscal emergency, and without a floor in sight, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Muir says Culver City is “better off” than many other communities.
First in a series
Across the table in their no-frills office in the shade of the Hayden Tract, one of the most youthful and energetic tandems in the building industry, Greg Reitz and partner Steve Edwards, forms a portrait of freshness and confidence.
But the portrait of the mid-30s Culver City men speaks.
And when it does, the language of these creative schooldays’ chums behind REthink Development Corp. of Culver City is more sobering, not quite so sunny.
In response to what has been labeled a “threat letter” from County Supervisor candidate Bernard Parks, a South Los Angeles community mobilizer and experienced campaign operative has asked the second-term Los Angeles City Councilman to step down not only from his Council seat, but also his positions with the MTA and Expo Line Construction Authority boards or face recall.
A deadline of 5 p.m. Monday was established by Damien Goodmon for “disgraceful, unethical, illegal actions and abuses of power.”
Driving hard to present his opponent for County Supervisor unfit for office, state Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City) charged today that Bernard Parks has been claiming a $7,000 annual property tax exemption on the home he owns in an unincorporated area – even though he doesn’t live there, as required by state tax laws.
The tigerishly aroused citizen warriors who became expert on oil-drilling after joining the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance, have lived to fight expansion plans by the perceived giant, Plains, Exploration & Production Co., PXP, still another day — next Wednesday, to be exact.
With one exception, the newspaper will not publish on Tuesday and Wednesday in honor of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, marking the start of a four-week series of holidays. On Tuesday, however, our critic Frederik Sisa will post a review from the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
On the morning last week that Park Century School — which serves learning disabled students — threw a party for itself on its sparkling new Culver City campus, Arthur Hoyle, the Director of Development, was leading a tour of the lily-white, open-air two-story building.
The other day my friend Karl asked me, “Danny, do you ever feel fed up with religion?”
“Sometimes,” I answered, “Why are you asking me that question?”
“Because the Jewish New Year is around the corner, and I’m reflecting,” he said.
“I‘m having a hard time believing in a Creator.
Turns out that the leadership of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance will go into Wednesday’s 9 a.m. Last Roundup-style of public hearing in downtown Los Angeles with the County Regional Planning Commission better armed than previously believed.
The 75 special students were beaming, and their world-class new building on formerly out-of-the-way Landmark Street was gleaming.
With so many radiating reflections to choose from, proud parents basked in the golden afterglow.
