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Card Scanning Solutions Lands Equity Investment Card Scanning Solutions (CSSN), located in Culver City’s Corporate Point, the leading provider of Identity Solutions software for reading data from driver licenses, medical cards, and other official documents, announces that Insight Venture Partners, Red Oak Growth Partners, and Egis Capital Partners have made an investment in the Company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "This capital infusion will help CSSN to accelerate its innovative product-development efforts and more r...
Culver Historical Society to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Harry Culver’s Dream Speech On July 22, 1913, Harry H. Culver, then a young real estate developer, made an important announcement at the original California Club in Downtown, Los Angeles. He presented his vision for a new city before directors, stockholders and friends of the newly formed Culver Investment Company with such enthusiasm that the enthralled group named it “Culver City” by acclamation. The Culver City Historical Society will present Culver’s exact dream speech, re-enac...
City Manager's Update June 21, 2013 City Manager’s Office · Culver City's Boulevard Music Summer Festival – Co-sponsored by the City of Culver City and curated by producer Gary Mandell of Culver City’s Boulevard Music, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival will feature: A cappella Doo Wop from the Mighty Echoes and acoustic blues with Doug MacLeod on July 11th; an eclectic mix of country, bluegrass, rock and jazz with Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand on July 18th; jazz and blues diva Barbara Morrison on July 25th; hot country, rock and blue...
SoCalGas Awards Scholarhips To Culver Students Southern California Gas Co. has awarded college scholarships totaling $2,000 to two Culver City-area high school seniors and community college graduates. Among the recipients to be awarded $1,000 scholarships are: Tracy Tran and Diego Rodas, graduates of Culver City High. “The scholarships recognize the students for academic achievement and other important signs of character,” said Krista Phipps, public affairs manager at SoCalGas. “We’re awarding scholarships to 150 high school seniors and com...
Tax Board Notifying Culver Retailers of Upcoming Visits Retailers throughout the state are receiving letters from the California State Board of Equalization (BOE) notifying them about upcoming visits from Statewide Compliance and Outreach Program (SCOP) teams. SCOP visits are intended to educate retailers about properly reporting sales and use tax, increase compliance with tax laws, and maintain outreach efforts to assure taxpayers the state’s tax system is fair and equal for all Californians. The BOE is mailing letters to 8,105 business owners...
Wende Museum Collection Stirs Controversy The Wende Museum in Culver City recently acquired a significant collection of early post-Soviet stock vouchers, privatization certificates, and Ponzi scheme coupons that dominated alternative currencies of the early 1990s in Russia. Vouchers and certificates, given to workers at the various factories and collectives as ownership shares, were bought or otherwise obtained by Russian businessmen who would be become known as The Oligarchs, including Mikhail Chernoi , Oleg Deripaska, Boris Berezovsky, and...
Culver Prepares For Next Baseball Season (EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 2 of Fred Altieri’s interview with Coach Rick Prieto regarding the Culver City High baseball program) Rick Prieto – Culver City High Baseball Head Coach Our program for the 2014 baseball season starts in the summer. We do everything in stages. What we try to do in the summer is continue playing baseball and the good things we just finished doing in the spring season and keep building from there. We are obviously going to sp...
Remarkable NBA Final Gets My Mind Working During the years I traveled with Laker teams I covered the NBA Finals 10 times. There were many memorable games and etched in my mind was winning a championship in Boston Garden, at last conquering the Celtics. When we flew home there were several billboards in West Los Angeles. The words were ‘The Lakers have never beaten the Celtics in the NBA Finals.’ The word never had a line drawn through it. Now we’ve had an NBA Finals that will rank with the great...
