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City Council was expected this week to vote on a proposal to hire a private security company to operate the understaffed Culver City Jail for the next five years. However, at its Monday night meeting, the Council decided to postponed action on the $2 million service contract, following news reporting that the security company, G4S Security Solutions, has been plagued by scandals in the United States and overseas. In its marketing brochures and contract bids, G4S Security Solutions sells itself...
Get ready for El Trafico 8! LAFC and rival LA Galaxy will battle for the second time this season at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 22 at the Banc of California Stadium. It will be the first match for both teams as Major League Soccer resumes the 2020 season with reserved confidence. In a phased approach, MLS announced the first six of 18 additional regular season games scheduled for each team before playoffs begin. LAFC got knocked out in the Quarterfinals of the very successful MLS is Back...
As of press time Wednesday, the number of local residents with Covid-19 rose to 330 cases, a 5% increase from last week's total of 313. Deaths related to Coronavirus increased to 29 in Culver City. More than half of the deaths occurred in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. According to Public Health officials, 67 cases of Covid-19 and 14 deaths were reported at Marina Pointe Healthcare and Subacute and 5 cases and 1 death at Anchor Retirement Homes. County-wide, the total infected...
Culver City Mayor Goran Eriksson along with Civic Service Commission Chairman Albert Vera and 6 other candidates have qualified for the City Council election ballot this November. The field of candidates for the School Board include two incumbents and two civic leaders. Besides Eriksson and Vera, the City Council candidates who filed their papers before the August 7 deadline include Yasmine McCorrin, Khin Khin Gyi, Freddy Puza, Robert Zirgulis, Darrel Menthe and Anthony Rizzo. All eight...
Culver City renters who are facing financial hardships due to Covid-19 may be eligible to receive temporary rental assistance from local government. The Community Development Department's Housing Division will offer 12-month rental assistance or 3-month rental catch-up to residents who meet the income and Covid-19 impact qualifications. Eligible applications will be selected by lottery. Applicants must meet extremely low-income limits and must provide documentation of their inability to pay...
Ready or not the NBA playoffs start this weekend with the play-in game on Saturday against the eighth and ninth seeded teams in the Western conference at 11:30 a.m. in the Bubble. If the eighth seeded team wins they will face the No. 1 seeded Lakers next week. If the ninth seeded team wins they will play a second game on Sunday to determine who advances to play the Lakers. The Clippers are the second seeded team in the conference and they will play the seventh seeded Dallas Mavericks next week....
Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) forward Diego Rossi tonight won the MLS is Back Tournament Golden Boot presented by Audi, establishing himself among the league's elite scorers with seven goals across five tournament matches. The highlight of Rossi's tournament performance came on July 18 in LAFC's 6-2 victory over crosstown rival Galaxy when he scored four goals, becoming the 13th player in MLS history to achieve the feat. Rossi's five combined goals and assists in that match tied the all-time...
In a sudden reversal, the Pac-12 Conference has decided to cancel all sports competitions through the end of the calendar year. The football season, which was scheduled to begin on September 26th, has been moved to the spring. The cancellation is due to the Covid-19 national pandemic that all of America is currently dealing with. The decision follows on the heels of a similar decision by the Big Ten Conference to cancel all fall sports, including football. Two other conferences at the FBS level,...
Los Angeles Rams Head Coach SEAN McVAY has donated $25,000 to the Play Equity Fund, it was announced today. McVay's donation was used to purchase footballs, jump ropes and other supplies for local students who lack access to play equipment. The supplies will be provided to students and families throughout the LA region as a way to encourage them to stay active in their own homes during the closures of schools and recreational areas due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "I am proud to partner with the...
By Leonard "Guzz" Brophy IV Election season is heating up in Santa Monica. The ballot is nearly complete, minus the SMMUSD board race that needs to be finalized for technical reasons. The City Council field is crowded with 21 people competing for four four-year seats. There is a separate council election for Kristin McCowan to keep the seat she was appointed to last month, but she will have no competitors. In addition to those council contests, voters will also be deciding on elections to the SMMUSD, Santa Monica College, and Rent boards as...
by Corva Corvax A Logical Opinion Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin presented a town hall on Monday night and left the agenda up to Black Lives Matter-LA and People's Budget LA with the predictable result of the dissemination of confusing and misleading data, woke scolding, and white shaming. Black Lives Matter is an organization that advocates against alleged systemic racism and promotes far-left ideology unconnected to racism, such as trans rights, the necessary breakdown of the nuclear f...
by Alyssa Erdley Observer Staff Writer The Catholic church must go to trial over funds appropriated from cemetery maintenance fees. On Friday, July 31, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Ange-les lost a summary judgment motion to dismiss a lawsuit against them by an esti-mated 90,000 class action victims regarding their failure to maintain cemetery grounds for the eleven cemeteries in the Los Angeles area. The lawsuit centers around a decision the Archdiocese made in 2007 to transfer $80...
by Mary Leipziger The Santa Monica Pier is opened- sort of. The usual entrance is off Ocean Ave and Colorado, on a steep incline. This has been closed and pedestrians are directed to Seaside, several blocks south. A visitor is deposited at Hot Dog, a good place for a snack. Bubba Gump Shrimp , some ice cream stores/cake shop/coffee bars are opened, with seating nearby to enjoy a warm summer afternoon. It is possible to order food to take out as well. Pacific Park is an oceanfront amusement park...
The City of Los Angeles recently distributed $100 million in rent money through a lottery style program. Now the County of Los Angeles has announced a similar program. As with the City of LA program, the County Program will distribute $100 million in Covid-19 relief, to tenants who complete an online application. The deadline is Monday August 31. Tenants may also call 211 and complete an application by phone. Renters at 30% of the median income may receive $10,000 to use for their rent. Aliens, illegal and otherwise, may also apply. This is a...
Covid-19 will be the death of many retail businesses, many but not all of them non-chain restaurants. For the last half century, Enterprise Fish Company has sold salmon, lobbed lobster and hailed halibut in a brick seafood themed store just off of Main Street. Now, that business has closed. Fisher Hardware is also closed in its Lincoln and Colorado location. No doubt the land will go for high density housing, because who doesn't want to live at Lincoln and Colorado? Bourget Brothers Building...
In case you were wondering whether or not you have to perform jury duty during the pandemic, the answer right now is no. However the Court’s are accepting filings, hearings are being conducted on motions, and the phone’s are being answered. "The Los Angles County Department of Public Health has expressed concerns to the Court about commencing jury trials and bringing jurors into County courthouses given the current COVID-19 numbers and trends," Presiding Judge Brazile said. The LA Superior Court has extended the deadlines for Civil and Cri...
By Samuel Alioto Just south of Montana Avenue, a stranger entered a Santa Monica resident's home with intent to steal, but used her technology to do it. A woman who lives south of Montana but north of Washington on Euclid, reports that she and her husband left home, and returned Friday evening to find a large gentleman using her credit cards in her computer. "Daisy" adds that 48 hours later, the same man tested the locks and attempted to gain entry again, despite the obvious presence of security cameras. Her entire "next-door" post is below....
One of the bright spots for the Los Angeles Dodgers during this 2020-21 Covid-shortened, 60-game season, has been the newly acquired Mookie Betts. Betts, the 27-year-old former Boston Red Sox star outfielder and American League MVP signed a colossal 12-year extension with the Dodgers worth $365 million on the night before Opening Day. Combined with the one-year, $27 million contract he's currently playing out, Betts' total comes to 13 years and $392 million. The Dodgers were eager to sign Betts...
Health officials in multiple California counties say the electronic system used by most local health departments statewide to report data on infectious diseases is currently experiencing “serious” technical issues, resulting in coronavirus cases being significantly undercounted. The California Department of Public Health confirmed the undercounting in a Tuesday morning update to its data dashboard, after individual counties including in the Sacramento area and Southern California reported earlier in the week that they’d been made aware of th...
Photos: 1. by Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude On Wednesday, the City of Los Angeles and Santa Monica issued further emergency orders in apparent reaction to the infamous house party held Monday night in Beverly Crest for an NFL football player. The party was filmed from news helicopters and showed hundreds of people disporting in the 3-story luxury mansion, none of them wearing masks. Ignoring the salient but apparently irrelevant fact that a woman was killed by gunfire at the party, local...
