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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Bunning, a Lonely HeroBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM March 05, 2010It has been much easier in Washington this week to savage Jim Bunning than to think through his unvarnished reasoning with him. read |
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Bimbo Alert: Guess Who Is Skulking Away with Education Dollars?By Ari L. Noonan @ 1:00 PM March 05, 2010I wonder what the Culver City teachers who led their sin-free students by the nostrils out to the curb yesterday morning to play pliable puppet for their union bosses will think when they swallow Karen Bass’s latest gotcha scam. read |
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I Propose a Toast to Manipulation DayBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM March 04, 2010On the way home from picking up my wife at the airport this early morning, we drove past El Rincon School. read |
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Advice for K. Silbiger: Take a Long PauseBy Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM March 04, 2010>Re “About My Visit to the City Council” read |
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Edwards Makes Real News Again — Only in the Non-Democrat MediaBy Ari L. Noonan @ 5:00 PM March 03, 2010Sometimes when I fold my eyes, I envision my wife saying, “Did you hear that John Edwards was released from prison this afternoon after serving 15 years?” read |