http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/rss_all.sd the voice of Culver City... and beyond en-us http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12998/AnArgumentforPullingBackfromSyria How many foreign forays will it take before the United States diplomatic corps starts to see that we cannot control the world. We cannot police the nations. No country, no matter how armed, can put down or end the political-ethnic-tribal turmoil churning up the Middle East. Yet Republicans and Democrats in Washington today argue that the United States has a vested interest in... Arthur Christopher Schaper 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12998/AnArgumentforPullingBackfromSyria http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12999/FiestaAlmostHereGoesShoppingforNewSponsors The Fiesta La Ballona Committee is soliciting sponsorships for this year's Party in the Park. It"s not too late to become a sponsor. Fiesta La Ballona is a long-standing end-of-summer tradition in Culver City, and the next renewal will be the weekend of Aug. 23-25. Marcus Tiggs 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12999/FiestaAlmostHereGoesShoppingforNewSponsors http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12996/MarkScottLeavesFresnoforBurbank Mark Scott, one of the most popular of Culver City"s recent city managers, despite a brief stay here, made it official this morning at a press conference that he is returning to the Los Angeles area. Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12996/MarkScottLeavesFresnoforBurbank http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12997/NachbarSaysCulverCityWontAlterPublicRecordsRequestStance culver city, public records, john nachbar, city manager Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12997/NachbarSaysCulverCityWontAlterPublicRecordsRequestStance http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12994/CrenshawLeaderCallsforOusterofMetroCEOLeahy Second of three parts. That the Metro staff, which advises the Metro Board, turned down the offers by three of four contract bidders to build a tunnel at the end of the Crenshaw light rail line within the budget guidelines “is a statement about the staff"s obtuseness,” says Damien Goodmon of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition. Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12994/CrenshawLeaderCallsforOusterofMetroCEOLeahy http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12995/TangledCalderonLegalWebStretchesTraptoSFPoorOlJudgeKopp Please don"t throw out the Calderon baby with the Central Basin District bath water. Are the triple-threat Calderon Brothers indirectly funneling money to the Hon. Quentin Kopp, former S.F. Supervisor, former state senator, former judge, by way of his offspring, Shepard Kopp, Esq.? John Walsh 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12995/TangledCalderonLegalWebStretchesTraptoSFPoorOlJudgeKopp http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12993/WestsideBaseballSeasonStartstoFade The inaugural season of Westside Baseball is nearing completion, with less than one week remaining in the regular season. Westside Baseball is a combination of the long-standing Westchester Babe Ruth League, along with players from Culver City, and elsewhere. Games are held primarily at Bill Botts Field and Ivan Miller Field. Garth Sanders 2013-06-19 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12993/WestsideBaseballSeasonStartstoFade http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12991/LettheCheersBeginLACityCouncilBagsPlasticBan On a magnificent, June-rare, pregnant-with-summer afternoon, the crowd performing cartwheels on your front lawn is rejoicing over the latest victory for environmentalists seeking to ban plastic bags. First word came from Alix Hobbs, acting Executive Director of Heal the Bay... Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12991/LettheCheersBeginLACityCouncilBagsPlasticBan http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12992/AMountainofPleasureWhileonHoliday Dateline Interlaken, Switzerland – Some things never change here in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzerland, where the combination of stunning mountain scenery, glacial lakes and easy accessibility is unparalleled. On a clear day – there are a surprising number – you still can look up from... Thomas D. Elias 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12992/AMountainofPleasureWhileonHoliday http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12990/CulverParksSplendidRallyandComebackTriumph First in a series. Four days before Friday afternoon"s grand graduation ceremony at Southwest College, on Imperial Highway, it is mind-stretching to believe that a year ago this month Culver Park High School partisans were... Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12990/CulverParksSplendidRallyandComebackTriumph http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12989/TheRaceforKerrysSeatFeelsLikeaSlowWalk This year seems like 2010 again in Massachusetts where residents will endure another special election. Three years ago they replaced the lionizing liberal Ted Kennedy, whose untimely demise was a Big Win for the GOP and the rest of the country, permitted Scott Brown, an unknown state senator from Wrentham, to... Arthur Christopher Schaper 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12989/TheRaceforKerrysSeatFeelsLikeaSlowWalk http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12986/GoodmonExplainsMayorVillaraigosasFliponLightRail First of two parts. The central question going into last evening"s meeting – actually, rally – of Damien Goodmon"s Crenshaw Subway Coalition was whether Light Rail Miracle No. 2 can be pulled off at the next downtown meeting of the Metro Board a week from Thursday? Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12986/GoodmonExplainsMayorVillaraigosasFliponLightRail http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12987/SouthLATeensLearnBusinessDevelopmentfromSerialEntrepreneur URBAN Teens eXploring Technology, a tech nonprofit in South Los Angeles, hosted Krishna Gupta, CEO of Sortfolio, to discuss lessons on business successes and failures as part of the organization"s 15-week summer coding academy. “Failure is not trying,” said Krishna Gupta, current CEO of Sortfolio and Bean Genius, two rising start-ups that mesh creative thinking and technology with profitable ideas. Juan Vasquez 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12987/SouthLATeensLearnBusinessDevelopmentfromSerialEntrepreneur http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12988/ZirgulissOpeningThrustClicksHeSays I kicked off my campaign for School Board last Saturday with a BBQ-Yard Sale and petition-signing, calling for the Fixing of the Culver City School Natatorium swimming pool. The response to the petition signing was... Robert Zirgulis 2013-06-18 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12988/ZirgulissOpeningThrustClicksHeSays http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12984/SeptemberIstheTargetforAdvisoryCommitteesOpeningPlan After last week"s monthly meeting of the Finance Advisory Committee, it can be reported that the just-organized nine-person body is proceeding methodically, as would be expected from ladies and gentlemen seeking to understand City Hall"s complex fiscal apparatus and the governing rules. Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12984/SeptemberIstheTargetforAdvisoryCommitteesOpeningPlan http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12985/LosingWeighttheHeadonWay I do not often write about weight loss because seldom do clients ask about it. Those who do inquire are successful in losing their unwanted weight at the rate of two to three pounds a week, a healthy amount. Traditionally when you think of hypnotism, aside from a stage show, people see it as a means to quit smoking or lose weight. They do not understand the two topics are only a small part of what hypnotherapy can help a person to accomplish. Nicholas Pollak 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12985/LosingWeighttheHeadonWay http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12983/ACinchAntidotetoKillingsLawsLawsLawsLawsLawsLaws As literalists rather than realists, liberals will be badgering our grandchildren for tighter gun control decades from now when one person a day is being shot to death out of a population of perhaps 425 million. Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12983/ACinchAntidotetoKillingsLawsLawsLawsLawsLawsLaws http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12982/DifferenceBetweenInformedandUninformedVoters The School District has had a poor record of maintaining its facilities for the past two decades. The Robert Frost Auditorium, the football and practice fields and the Natatorium are obvious examples of slow decay. Will the District borrow $75M to fix up our school facilities, only to let them slowly fall into disrepair? George Laase 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12982/DifferenceBetweenInformedandUninformedVoters http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12979/TheLearningComponentinFreeLunchProgram Second of three parts. The School District"s inaugural Free Summer Lunch program that starts a week from this morning at 11:30 at La Ballona Elementary for students 18-and-under, is about feeding minds as much as bodies, says Supt. Dave LaRose. Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12979/TheLearningComponentinFreeLunchProgram http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12980/ForHamsandVegansFieldDayattheWeekend Did you know a group of volunteers is prepared to assist the Culver City community in the event of a disaster? Would you like to stop by and see what they are up to on Saturday and Sunday, at Fire Station 1, Downtown? Marty Hente 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12980/ForHamsandVegansFieldDayattheWeekend http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12981/IsTowTruckDriverWarminguptoSuetheMTA Is the badly-injured tow truck driver involved in last Wednesday"s pre-dawn Fifth & Broadway collision planning to sue the MTA? Will MTA settle quickly out of court with Youssef Adhami for a hefty sum to avoid a trial? John Walsh 2013-06-17 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12981/IsTowTruckDriverWarminguptoSuetheMTA http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12977/CulverCityIfYouEatThatSandwichYouWillBeLabeled Supt. Dave LaRose might have been perspiring bullets this afternoon if he had known what motivated me to telephone him at 2 o"clock. My question was so innocuous as to seem wasteful... Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12977/CulverCityIfYouEatThatSandwichYouWillBeLabeled http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12978/TacklingtheDistrictsMaintenanceIssue Anybody who takes a walk around our School District facilities can see that many of our schools need renewal. The larger issue is that our District has a long history of... George Laase 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12978/TacklingtheDistrictsMaintenanceIssue http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12976/ANewWayforHungryStudentstoSpendtheSummer To the dismay of kvetching pessimists and previously undefeated old-fashioned mamas who have failed to update their Book of Bromides, there is a free lunch in this world. For six weeks this summer, down the street at La Ballona Elementary, a first-time experiment in Culver City, a comprehensive plan to... Ari L. Noonan 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12976/ANewWayforHungryStudentstoSpendtheSummer http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12975/DoggedlyFusaroFightsfortheUnderDog Animal photographer Lori Fusaro, who is the editor of the Culver City News, has a special place in her heart for the under-dog. She has been helping pets find homes for more than a decade, inspiring her to create an art book called Silver Hearts. Local News 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12975/DoggedlyFusaroFightsfortheUnderDog http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12972/MyNewWonderfulPoolLadder Before I talk about my new pool ladder, let me tell you about my old pool ladders. They were all made of metal. After two years, they rusted sufficiently in my salt water pool, and they... Robert Ebsen 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12972/MyNewWonderfulPoolLadder http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12973/IstheSoTouchyiTimesiPlayingMuslimGamesAgainwithAllegedDeadlyDriver Dear Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein: Please let us Los Angeles Times readers know what KNBC viewers have known since Wednesday about the 7-Eleven store Downtown bus killing. John Walsh 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12973/IstheSoTouchyiTimesiPlayingMuslimGamesAgainwithAllegedDeadlyDriver http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12974/DeadMenCellPhoneTales Dead men may not tell tales, but they do leave cell phones behind. Shenanigans invariably ensue, especially when a bold, foolish soul picks up the ringing nuisance and answers the call. Such is the premise for Sarah Ruhl"s Dead Man"s Cell Phone, a play auspiciously heralded by the Ghost of Stephen Foster, one of many songs by the great, spicy band Squirrel Nut Zippers that electrify the score. Frederik Sisa 2013-06-14 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12974/DeadMenCellPhoneTales http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12970/DidtheWrongExpertsConducttheEnergyConservingProjects What happens when a big government study undermines the assumptions made by the writers of another pricey official report? Obvious, isn"t it? When studies contradict each other"s basic conclusions and assumptions... Thomas D. Elias 2013-06-13 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12970/DidtheWrongExpertsConducttheEnergyConservingProjects http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12971/SincePoliticiansareHumanKeepPowerOutofTheirFlawedHands Politicians amplify the flaws of human nature – the bent of compromise in place of conviction, heeding the interests of the majority instead of the truth, whether the numbers add up to more votes or not. Recalling Lord Acton, power of any kind in the hands of one or the few, even for a limited time, tends to... Arthur Christopher Schaper 2013-06-13 http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/articles1-12971/SincePoliticiansareHumanKeepPowerOutofTheirFlawedHands