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Culver City and other wealthy communities in the Westside have some of the highest Covid-19 inoculation rates in Los Angeles County even though their residents were less affected by the coronavirus, according to new data released by the Public Health Department this week. On the other hand, lower-income communities in the Eastside, which were devastated by the pandemic, have seen fewer vaccines for their residents, health officials said. More than 22% of the residents of Culver City have been...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club on March 10 at 7PM. Gascon was elected in November 2020 with a commanding 66% of Culver City's votes on a platform of rethinking public safety, prosecuting police violence, and undoing mass incarceration. He will discuss his goals and his first months in office. Club members will receive the zoom registration link by email. Others are welcome to RSVP to...
Westside Pacific Villages (WPV) received a $50,000 Capacity Building & Expansion grant from Cedars-Sinai to support outreach for WPV CARES. WPV CARES (COVID-19 Action Response for Elderly Support) was established in March 2020 in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The grant allows WPV to continue its ongoing mission of assisting seniors throughout the coronavirus pandemic, and to expand services into underserved neighborhoods that lack resources. WPV is honored to be recognized by...
After many months of checking tier levels, making sure coronavirus levels have dropped, the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, the CIF Southern Section office, the City of Culver City and the Culver City Unified School District have cleared most of the schools in Southern California to play outdoor sports this year. Although several sports have been cleared football is at the top of the list. "I found out that it was a strong possibility about two weeks ago that all we needed was so...
By Eric Lambkins II Sports Reporter Being a Laker epitomizes the allure, glitz and glamor of the City of Los Angeles. From Hollywood A-listers fashionably sitting courtside, to the blaring of Randy Newman's "I Love LA" over the speakers after each win, to the immortalization of Laker legends by Angelino to excel while donning the purple and gold propels Laker players into the pantheon of the game's all-time greats. It also comes with unrealistic expectations of winning a title every year. The...
By Michael Johnson Sports Reporter The battle for Los Angeles professional basketball supremacy is still not settled. I thought it might be after last week's game between the Clippers and the Washington Wizards, which the Clippers won by 19 points. I was ready to say there is a new basketball Sheriff in the City of the Angels, it's the Los Angeles Clippers. I was ready to pronounce Paul George (PG13) and Kawhi Leonard (Terminator) the most dynamic duo in the city and maybe in the NBA dethroning...
It is understandable if this season is looking a lot like last season for UCLA Bruin coach Mick Cronin. In his second season as the men's head basketball coach, Cronin has his team in position to win the Pac-12 regular season title with wins over on Oregon in Eugene last Wednesday night and in the regular season finale against USC on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins are currently 13-4 in conference play, a half a game ahead of both the Oregon Ducks at 12-4 and the USC Trojans at 13-5. Las...
UCLA freshman, Chae Campbell performs on the balance beam in a gymnastics meet at UCLA last Saturday. UCLA beat a good Oregon State team 197.025-196.500. Campbell is one of the top freshman in the country. She won the floor exercise with a score of 9.925. The No.10 Bruins travel north to take on No. 9 California on Saturday. They return home to face San Jose State on Saturday, March 13, at 2 p.m. Two other Pac-12 teams are ranked in the top 10, with Utah at No.5 and Arizona State at No.7....
By Rep. Karen Bass Congresswoman, 30th Congressional District March 3, 2021 When I first saw the tape of Rodney King being beaten in the middle of the street on March 3, 1991, I was not horrified or surprised. I was hopeful. I believed that now, finally, the public would believe what Black and Latino activists had been saying: that police brutality is real and continues a long history of treating Black people like their lives do not matter, while simultaneously attempting to hide that reality in plain sight. Activists had fought for years to...
Dear Editor: On February 23, 2021 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of establishing "Hero Pay" for grocery and drug store employees. The pay would be $5.00 per hour in additional pay and would apply to publicly traded employers and employers who have over 300 employees nationwide and more than 10 employees per store. The additional pay would be in effect for 120 days from the date the ordinance is passed. In its current form, the ordinance would only apply to...
Dear Editor, I’m a tenant and when this started, I knew it was good for the poor, but bad for the landlords…ESPECIALLY those who have bad tenants. I’ve read some nightmare stories about those who don’t pay their rent now and certainly aren’t going to have it when the time is up and they have to pay it. Lot’s of these landlords may lose their homes unless something is done about it. I mean, how are you supposed to pay the mortgage when they aren’t paying their rent? I’ve made a point of paying...
The spark for the LA Kings hockey team has finally ignited the flame as they had a six-game win streak up until a loss to the Minnesota Wild last night. Only one other team in the NHL had the same win streak. During that winning streak, the Kings outscored their opponents 22-7 which makes head coach Todd McLellan happy, since he's been wanting more scoring from his team in order to have success this season. McLellan has been making changes, tweaking, and making improvements with his team since...
NASA has released a spectacular bounty of new videos from its Perseverance Mars rover as it began its hair-raising landing on the surface of the red planet last week. The video, shot from multiple cameras, captures the entire descent onto Mars, from the parachute inflation to its ultimate touchdown in the Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. "This is the first time we've been able to actually capture an event like the landing of a spacecraft on Mars," Michael Watkins, the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion...
Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health has cleared county elementary schools to fully re-open for the first time in nearly a year. The decision is due to dropping coronavirus rates, health officials confirmed Monday night. But it isn’t clear that school district officials or the teachers union are ready for an immediate resumption of in person instruction. Teachers unions remain cautious, and some districts across the State have responded more quickly than others. Scientists are not certain why infection and death rates are dropping. But t...
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announced on Twitter that LBUSD will begin in-person elementary school instruction on Monday, March 29. Long Beach Unified School District plans to resume in-person classes for grades K through 5 in March 2021. Schools have been closed since March 19, 2020 due to Covid-19. Garcia said all elementary school teachers and school staff "will have had an opportunity to be vaccinated with both doses before reopening." Wednesday's announcement comes two days after Los Angeles County gave eligible elementary schools the...
By Jack Simon, Observer Staff Writer A 32-year-old, convicted felon from Santa Monica was indicted last Friday on gun-related charges after he allegedly shot into his neighbor's backyard during a family gathering, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Jason Scott Walsh was charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a firearm without a serial number, said ATF officials. He been in federal...
Home prices in Santa Monica and LA County coastal communities increased during the pandemic and are expected to climb higher in 2021, according to The Red Paper 2020 Press.. The median price for a Santa Monica home was $2,752,100. The median price for a Santa Monica condominium was $1.05M. The median price per square foot in Santa Monica in 2020 was $1,206, it said. Venice, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey and Playa del Rey have seen an influx of buyers who want to live near Silicon Beach, a tech center for major global media companies and...
A combination of strong winds, large inshore holes and crowded beaches made for weekend count of 71 rescues. "A combination of strong winds and large inshore holes made for weekend tally of 71 Ocean Rescues across Los Angeles County," County Lifeguards posted on Instagram. "Saturday morning, we saw crowded lineups early before strong N/NE winds impacted much of the Santa Monica Bay." "These cross/offshore winds aligned with uneven ocean floor and short period wind swell to create hazardous...
By Amber Jackson, Inmate at Corona Institute for Women That's right.iJpay is out as the prisoner email provider! A brand new deal between CDCR and www.gtl.net is in place and signed. This will widely expand the tablet program, allowing the use of inmate tablets and email service for ALL prisoners in every state prison and fire camp in California! Starting in April, each state prisoner will begin receiving their new, free tablet from gtl.net! Presently, only 6 prisons in the state have tablets! Now all prisons and fire camps will have it. No...
By Jack Simon Most cities in California have struggled to come up with solutions to curb homelessness in their municipalities and it was no different for the Santa Monica City Council last night. At its annual study session on homelessness, the City Council discussed and rehashed at great length current programs for the homeless instead of focusing on new initiatives. "I don't know if we know how to solve this (homelessness) but we have to do something about it," said Councilmember Phil Brock, urging his colleagues to focus on new concepts,...
As of Friday, updated State guidance allows for all outdoor youth and adult recreational sports, including moderate contact and high contact sports, to resume practice, training and competitions in counties where the case rate is at or below 14 cases per 100,000 population, on Friday, February 26. Since L.A. County's adjusted case rate is now at 12.3 cases per 100,000, county protocols are being revised to align with the new State guidance. Moderate contact sports include: baseball, field hockey...
With the nation's death toll from Covid-19 passing half a million this week and nearly 20,000 deceased in Los Angeles County, a group of artists and individuals sought to find a way for the country to grieve. The result this March 1 will be the installation of a heart-shaped garland of felt roses at the Building Bridges Art Exchange at Bergamot Station. The groups involved include the Floral Heart Project, conceived by artist Kristina Libby. Concerned about the number of survivors of the high...
These dolphins did not get the social distancing memo. A "super pod" or "mega pod" of dolphins was caught on camera on Saturday, with more than 1,000 dolphins, some soaring to the sky and all tightly racing alongside one another just three miles off Laguna Beach's shore. "It was an amazing pod of dolphins. We have been seeing some really large pods lately, they've been feeding and there's tons of birds," Newport Coastal Adventure owner Ryan Lawler said. But Saturday's sight of the long-beaked co...
