Articles from the May 28, 2013 edition


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  • Culver Elks Help Disabled Children

    May 28, 2013

    By David W. Myers, Contributing Editor The Culver City Elks Lodge last week gave a check for $5,500 to the California-Hawaii Elks Association to help provide care for a prematurely-born boy and the medical help that other disabled children need. The contribution by the Culver Elks pushed the amount of money that the California-Hawaii Elks Association, commonly called CHEA, has raised through its annual fund-raising efforts to nearly $110 million since the yearly drives began in the 1950s. In all, the Culver Elks contributed $7,250 to the...

  • COMMENTARY

    May 28, 2013

    COMMENTARY Here’s Another View Of Fracking By Jack Cox, President of The Communications Institute There has been a great deal of coverage in the news media in southern California about the use of the 60-year-old oil production technology in our state, hydraulic fracturing. Nearly all the coverage in urban media has focused on proposed legislation by state legislators in urban southern California to ban the use of the technology until more studies are undertaken. The use of this technology has enriched states and communities around the n...

  • Fiscal Committee Passes Mitchell's Fracking Moratorium

    May 28, 2013

    Fiscal Committee Passes Mitchell’s Fracking Moratorium Assemblymember Holly J. Mitchell’s bill to impose a moratorium on the practice of fracking in California, AB 1323, is the only one of three proposed bans passed by the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Testifying before the committee, Assemblywoman Mitchell vigorously defended the need for the ban, challenging the notion that any loss to the state in future oil revenues could be allowed to outweigh potential costs, in terms of quality of life and home values, imposed on those living in...

  • City Manager's Update

    May 28, 2013

    May 24, 2013 Community Development Department · Culver City Chamber of Commerce – Pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Chamber of Commerce (Chamber) and the City, the Chamber will be hosting a free event on June 6 at the Veterans Auditorium that educates small business owners as to how online market strategies can be utilized. The event is being produced in partnership with Constant Contact, Hootsuite, Microsoft and others. Additional events include the Culver City Chamber's Business EXPO on June 26 and a monthly series th...