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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On the Fourth, Is the President One of Us?By Ari L. Noonan @ 8:00 AM July 03, 2009I presume that President Obama will summon a respectable amount of his vaunted but vague and so far unseen reservoir of energy to celebrate the birthday of our country tomorrow. read |
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A Shameful Stew of Agitators and Enablers in New HavenBy Ari L. Noonan @ 11:00 PM July 02, 2009Such a large number of dirty-handed persons became involved with the New Haven firefighters’ promotion test that it is almost shocking the U.S. Supreme Court called the case exactly right this week. read |
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My Son and Black FirefightersBy Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM July 01, 2009One of my sons was adopted — prior to his birth, if you wish to know. When he was entering the first grade of a private school in the Valley, I explained to the teacher that my son’s birth mother had lived all of her life in Massachusetts. And you know how different East Coast lifestyle is from ours. When testing, please consider this anomaly. read |
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Don’t Cry for Me SacramentoBy Ari L. Noonan @ 6:00 AM June 30, 2009Unable to control herself, Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass —warmly known in Culver City as “our very own” — insists on reminding voters in a steady stream of interviews that she is an empty vessel politically, devoid of ideas, clout, depth and vision. read |
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School Board: Paspalis Is the Second CandidateBy Ari L. Noonan @ 2:00 PM June 29, 2009Kathy Paspalis, an El Marino Language School parent, this afternoon joins Karlo Silbiger as the first two announced candidates for November’s School Board election. read |