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The loud exhale you may have heard from City Hall two days ago could be traced to the District Court ruling blocking President Trump’s attempt to deny partial funding to sanctuary cities. When the City Council stamped Culver City a sanctuary city one month ago today, I asked City Manager John Nachbar if he was worried about potentially imperiling federal … Read More

Watching the tramps and the trampettes of the liberal media dive into their steaming pot of puerile hysteria every morning is as easy to predict as the configuration of the tires on your next car. Ill temper, not to mention distemper, explains why so many liberals are overweight, overwrought and over-single. The lonely, trampish boys and girls who dominate the … Read More

Second of two parts Re “Rotation System Is a Dumb Idea, One Man Says” Concerned that his friend Goran Eriksson, the City Councilman, will be passed by next April when the Council votes on a new mayor and vice mayor, Steve Rose, a former Councilman, is speaking out against the current rotation system. He would like to see the voting … Read More

Politically liberal Jews and their enablers in the fake news media returned to their floozy roots this week. Like an alcoholic spouse tooting his toy trumpet as he unsteadily toddles home, the liberal boys are sounding alarms where no cause for alarm exists. The occasion is President Trump’s 100th day in office, coming up Saturday. This is the latest reason … Read More

No one paying attention to City Hall will mistake the new one-year term of Mayor Jeff Cooper for the just-expired term of Jim Clarke. Their lifestyles, their personalities and their approaches to their City Council seats are markedly different. Not better or worse, just quite unalike. Mr. Cooper is a banker, Mr. Clarke is a career politician. As a bachelor, … Read More

First of two parts Re “Presumed Final Score: Mayor Cooper, Vice Mayor Small” Former Mayor Steve Rose looked and listened closely last evening from his favorite Council Chambers perch when the City Council elected a new mayor. One question gnawed at him: Was this a fair way to choose fresh leadership every year? Mr. Rose has missed few meetings since … Read More

It sounded like an afterthought last evening when departing mayor Jim Clarke inserted one of his strongest wishes into his farewell speech. Demonstrating one final time how much he loved being Culver City’s mayor for the past year, Mr. Clarke said he hopes that one day there will be a separate election for mayor for a four-year term with an … Read More

[Editor’s Note: Outgoing Mayor Clarke’s farewell speech last evening.] Thank you to the public for first electing me and to my colleagues for bestowing the honor of being mayor this past year, especially as we kicked off our Centennial celebration. As mayor I have tried to be responsive and respectful to the public, not to be a nuisance to the … Read More

Last Monday night’s City Council discussion and vote on the future of the oil field was impassioned and challenging. Anyone who listened knows that my critique and questions, for the new oilfield operator Sentinel Peak, were incisive and exacting. The company’s presentation to Council and the public was not encouraging. Their responses to our questions were inadequate. There were compelling … Read More

One veteran face. One still like- new face. This is the way this evening’s mayoral election by the City Council is supposed to turn out according to City Hall policy, known for its fungibility, not to mention its unreliability. Don’t bet more than a used bubble gum wrapper. Within the first hour of the single-topic 7 o’clock meeting in Council … Read More