Second in a series. Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells’s dream, when she ascended the rotating office last spring, was to accelerate transformation of Culver City into an ideal community for families. Championing a minimum wage is one layer of her intended upgrade, and at a meeting with fellow mayors, she spoke out forcefully in favor of a minimum wage, which has become a national rage.
L.A. City Council: Where Are We? Is It Day or Night?
Here are the most intriguing numbers in the left-wing Los Angeles City Council’s latest hammer-handed attempt to make themselves feel better: Loosely, they commissioned three studies (the boys don’t count well) to determine the impact of raising the hourly minimum wage at select hotels to $15.37. This, for the least educated among us who tuck pillows into pillow cases for a living, and still will be tucking pillows into pillow cases 20 years from this afternoon.
L.A. City Council About to Detonate a $tink Bomb
The Los Angeles City Council, which knows less about commerce than it does the causes and cures of Ebola, is about to blindly vote a huge pay raise for the city’s least educated workers at major hotels. The minimum they could be paid would be $15.37 hourly. Some hotels are threatening layoffs, and that is fine. Wait until Mayor Garcetti imposes his bullet-to-the-brain minimum wage hike. Layoffs and going-out-of-business sales will drown the cheers of the uneducated workers. Why is the Council executing this unconscionable, unearned handout?
When You Fear That Convicted Killers (Horrors) May Die
Of the 17 topical distractions from serious news that the White House creatively has introduced since last January – think minimum wage, think sexism, think income gap, think student loans — opposition to the death penalty is the easiest to counter. What is complicated or morally troubling about executing a convicted killer, about punishing with finality a raging person who has harshly snuffed out the life – in many cases – of a rival?
Farmers Fear ICE Age
Mr. Elias
The specter of peaches and oranges and apricots and artichokes rotting on the ground or on trees hangs over California agriculture this spring, in the wake of a series of immigration raids during the first months of President Trump’s administration. If you want to know why it’s not merely undocumented immigrants who fear the prospect of more and larger raids … Read More
Hillary – Innocent, as Charged
Mr. Podesta. Photo: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images
Doyle McManus, an essayist for the virulently anti-Trump Los Angeles Times, believes that the 30,000 emails Hillary Clinton said she burned really were all about her yoga classes and Chelsea’s wedding. As a loyal little liberal sycophant, Mr. McManus swore in his Sunday essay that there was nothing worth repeating about corrupt Hill in the lately released WikiLeaks-triggered emails. That, … Read More
Bar 9 and the Art of Coffee – No Tips Needed
Bar 9
An Interview with Bar 9’s Zayde Naquib. As the national campaign to increase the minimum wage to $15 claims victories across the country, from California and Seattle to Washington D.C., the debate in Culver City rages on. The Page has covered the perspective of local business persons as well City Council members and candidates (see http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/?s=minimum+wage), highlighting the controversial nature … Read More
Greens Stand with P. Rico
Mr. Pipkin. Still from YouTube video, Paul Pipkin.
Dateline Washington — The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the Day in Solidarity with the Independence of Puerto Rico, a program at Local 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East in New York City next Friday evening. https://www.facebook.com/events/159786214424730). “We support the right of self-determination for all people and especially for those suffering foreign rule and economic exploitation,” said … Read More
Who Will Vote in Primary?
Mr. Elias
Key questions in the June 7 primary election include not merely who will win in each major party and how many national convention delegates they might net, but also who will vote. That last question might decide the answers to the first two. Before all his opponents dropped out, it seemed that to do well, Republican businessman Donald Trump needed … Read More
Sign Here? It Ain’t So Easy
Mr. Elias
It takes fewer valid signatures to qualify an initiative for a statewide vote than at any time in the last 20 years – 365,880, almost 150,000 less than just two years ago. Caused by the extreme low turnout in the midterm election of 2014, it has led many so-called experts to assume voters would be dealing with blanket-length ballots this … Read More