Ari Noonan, General Editor: Now in Year 23 of his recovery from an addiction to sportswriting, Ari Noonan is the tallest, oldest and hardest-hitting journalist in Greater Culver City. In the 1960s, he was a sportswriter, first in Orange County. Then he served as Night Sports Editor for the defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. “Defunct” is the adopted first name of many newspapers Mr. Noonan has worked for and, to an extent, driven out of business. He was the last Sports Editor of the Evening Outlook in Santa Monica, for example. He was the last Managing Editor of the Baltimore Press, which died before he could leave town. In the 1970s, he jumped to Santa Barbara and Philadelphia before washing enough dishes to cover his fare back to Los Angeles. Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, he became the dean of Jewish reporters in Los Angeles. That is, he became the dean of Jewish reporters covering the Jewish community of Los Angeles. This was not necessarily a good thing because during that span, he was present at the closure of three or four Jewish newspapers. With recent history being too painful to discuss, suffice it to report that he came to Culver City at the turn of the century. Following an editorship at the Culver City News, he opened The Front Page in March of ’04 and the newspaper went online fulltime in the final week of ’05. Contact Ari at
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Salkin’s Advice to the City on West L.A. College: SueBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM July 26, 2010Third in a series Re “Salkin Assesses the Fairness of Last Week’s College District Hearing” read |
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He Explored the World to Find Furniture That Precisely Fit His ChildBy Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM July 26, 2010Roger Lin’s daughter was only 3 years old when he noticed that she was positioned uncomfortably at a drawing table, a mundane scene that arrested his attention and sparked him into launching a life-changing venture. read |
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In Defense of the Police ChiefBy Ari L. Noonan @ 10:00 AM July 26, 2010Second of two parts Re “Ewell Rebukes the Police Union” and “POA Officer Talks About the Next Move in Chief-Union Dispute” read |
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Ewell Rebukes the Police UnionBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM July 23, 2010First of two parts Sharply critical of the police union’s tactics and conduct in its campaign to force out Chief Don Pedersen, the Interim City Manager today expressed surprise that none of the identified charges against the chief rise above the pedestrian level. |
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Police Union Details Charges Against Chief and Reveals the VoteBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM July 22, 2010Nearly three weeks after completing the polling in a unique three-day no-confidence vote, the police union of the Culver City Police Dept. this morning issued a 1,080-word press release.read |