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If you can envision observing your own funeral from a lofty seat in the gallery, you know the sensations coursing through Police Chief Scott Bixby at Monday evening’s City Council meeting. Officially making Culver City a sanctuary city proved exactly the opposite of the experience that earlier had been framed by Mayor Jim Clarke, a nominal backer of the shift. … Read More

Only if you owned the heart of a dead Eskimo could you not have been moved by sanctuary city pleas at Monday evening’s City Council meeting. I have spoken out for weeks against the contradictory notion of sanctuary cities. How can you justify serving as human shields for people who entered our country illegally? To say this is their only … Read More

On the same day that U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions warned federal funding may be denied to sanctuary cities, Culver City joined its 300 sanctuary city brothers. Since the mood in Council Chambers was certain to be verbally stormy and potentially physically threatening, the Police Dept. was very much in evidence for Monday evening’s City Council meeting. It was shrewd … Read More

Remember the good ol’ days if the 1990s when you used to tune in to CNN to learn the news from respected journalists, with an occasional opinion sprinkled in. When I tuned in early last evening, the Don Lemon Show resembled a cartoon version of  Black Lives Matter More Than Other Lives. If it differed in crudity and strident tone … Read More

It was sort of like walking into an empty ice cream parlor and requiring 24 minutes to explain to the clerk that you want a cone with a single scoop of boring vanilla. Imagine your starving spouse striding tardily into the kitchen where six guests already are seated and a steaming dinner is on the table. Before anyone can eat, … Read More

@The Guss Report — The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the L.A. District Attorney’s office is investigating whether L.A. City Councilmember Curren D. Price Jr. is simultaneously married to two women, a story I broke on on February 27, with follow-ups on March 2 and March 6. The D.A.’s office subsequently confirmed for me they are also investigating allegations … Read More

Not until the sleepy hour of 12:40 this morning did Culver City – on an unswerving path ever since campaigning began nearly five months ago – formally become one of  America’s 300 sanctuary cities. Wet with drama, electrifying with sizzling emotions, an overflow crowd lined the walls of Council Chambers and would have stood on the ceiling, too, if gravity … Read More

As part of its continuing effort to involve parents, teachers, students and the entire community in the positive aspects of social media, the School District and the Culver City Centennial Committee have announced $1,600 in awards through the School District’s hashtag contest. Using the #CULVERPRIDE hashtag, teachers, students, parents and staff have spent the school year posting the happenings in … Read More

So distressing to report that last Wednesday’s latest Muslim terrorist attack, in London, was unavoidable. No matter how much zeal and imagination President Trump brings, there is no way to intercept an ordinary vehicle from suddenly, fatally ploughing into ordinary unsuspecting people. This is the latest genius of the ISIS-inspired worldwide war to wipe out infidels in a crazy-quilt pattern … Read More

Culver City probably will join the biggest social wave sweeping the country this evening at 7 o’clock when the City Council votes to make this already sanctuary city an official sanctuary city. Long forgotten will be one of the most horrifying rape scenes of recent vintage: Two illegal aliens, ages 18 and 17, are charged with raping a 14-year-old girl … Read More