In a video statement released today on parksforsupervisor.com, former Lakers star Laker Earvin (Magic) Johnson called out state Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas (D-Culver City) for “negative and untruthful campaigning” against L.A. City Councilman Bernard C. Parks in their race for an open seat on the County Board of Supervisors in the Nov. 4 election..
Go Take a Hike, Sen. Ridley-Thomas and Others Were Advised. They Did, and They Had Fun.
Introducing a complete stranger — hiking — to urban families — that was the mission early last Monday evening , and if you ever were a kid or a Scout, this was a magically nostalgic outing.
By 6:30, the sun long since had sunk beyond the horizon, and if you ever have wandered into a forest at that hour, you have an idea of what the embryonic hikers were feeling.
Burglars Break Into Councilman O’Leary’s Pub. Frustrated, They Steal Just Enough for Several Brewskis
Joxer Daly’s, the popular Irish pub near the intersection of Washington and Sepulveda boulevards that City Councilman Mehaul O’Leary has owned and operated for the last eight years, was burglarized early Monday morning.
First time it ever happened, said Mr. O’Leary, who characterized himself as “miffed.”
Hearing Tonight: Builders Talk About 8665 Hayden and How They Are Adjusting to Fiscal Crunch
The anxiously awaited Planning Commission hearing on a modified business condos project at 8665 Hayden Pl. comes up for approval tonight at 7 in Council Chambers, City Hall, and both parties — protesting neighbors and the two builders — anticipate a long and emotional evening.
Brathwaite Burke Has the Final Say. Oilfield Script Turns Out the Way She ‘Predicted’ It Would. EIR Sails Through, CSD to be Approved Next Week
Surrounding her Closing Day strategy with enough rhetorical shrubbery to blot out the Santa Monica Mountains, County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke brilliantly — and slickly — stage-managed her showdown on Tuesday afternoon with more than a hundred protesting Culver City area residents over how strongly or softly to regulate drilling for the next 20 years in the Inglewood oilfield.
Hayden Tract Builders Working to Maintain Their Sunny Disposition
Going into Wednesday night’s crucial 7 o’clock hearing before the Planning Commission in Council Chambers for approval of their Hayden Place project, the energetic, imaginative and young developers Greg Reitz and Steve Edwards remain undiscouraged and upbeat about prospects, despite the month-old global financial crash.
Warming up for Tuesday, Oilfield Rally Steps Off at 9:30 Saturday Morning
Assembling at three separate locations, Culver Crest area residents will join other concerned neighbors at 9 a.m. Saturday before marching to the Inglewood oilfield, 5640 S. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, to protest the pace and tone of drilling regulations that Los Angeles County is about to approve.
De Benedittis Pleads for Democrats to Join Her Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors Meeting
Two City Councilmen were billed as the main attractions at last night’s meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club.
But Culver Crest activist Suzanne De Benedittis stole the headline, passionately pleading for assistance from her fellow Democrats in seeking to modify the new drilling regulations of the thousand-acre Inglewood oil field.
In Otake, Brotman Finally Landed a Winner — Years Later
Second of three parts. See “Otake Brings Brotman, Steadily Stabilizing, Within One Step of Quitting the Wilderness of Bankruptcy,” in Monday, Oct. 13, edition. Keyword: Otake.
Days short of one year on the job, CEO Stan Otake appears to be the executive to be chiefly credited with saving Culver City’s historically beleaguered hospital.
Backers of Animal Services Officer Have Not Made Any Progress, Weissman Says
As a dissenting voter at Monday evening’s meeting, City Councilman Andy Weissman continues to shake his head over the months’ long enthusiastic but blanks-dominated blueprint for Culver City to hire its first animal services officer this winter.