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By David Ganezer 5/13/21: We've all become used to covering our faces everywhere, and no longer seeing our neighbors smile. But as announced Thursday morning by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, and echoed by US President Joseph Biden, there is no longer a need to wear a mask whether indoors or outdoors. “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physically distancing,” CDC Director Rochelle Walesnky told a virtual press conference. “If you are fully...
By Sarah Haufrect On most Tuesday mornings, you can find Officer James Thomas of the Culver City Police Department at the intersection of Venice and Sepulveda Boulevards. For the past year, along with a group of fellow officers and volunteers, he is part of a cleanup team in charge of removing trash and handing out items to the unhoused residents, like bottled water, personal hygiene products and clean socks. He said that in 2020 the department assisted in the clearance of around forty tons of...
The City Council met this week to review and discuss anew the consultants' recommendations to advance racial equity and social justice in public safety in Culver City. After a seven-hour hearing on improving policing, Councilmembers passed by 3-2 vote a motion to create a public safety review committee, a mobile crisis intervention program and a plan to "de-prioritize enforcement of low-level traffic infractions." The crisis intervention program was one of the many recommendations contained in...
The Board of Supervisors approved a policy that those accused of misdemeanors and who have been found “incompetent to stand trial,” will receive community-based restoration treatment instead of jail-based treatment. Sheila Keuhl, who represents LA County’s westside, including Santa Monica, says this is intended to advance the County’s “care first, jail last” approach.“As of this month, 70 misdemeanants incompetent to stand trial were in County jail,” she writes, not explaining what a “misdemeanant” is. “Under U.S. law, individuals who are f...
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...
I have a great idea to get money to the Culver City Unified School District, so the people won’t need to raise taxes again this year. Over the past 10 or 15 years, the Board of Education must have considered our piggy bank, as a way to balance their budget; look at all the money the Board give to Dr. Arnold. Maybe some one needs to be horsewhipped? Until, we vote those responsible out of office why don’t we put them on a bus and let them pan for gold along Highway 49. A rumor has recently rea...
Have the members of the Culver City Police Department read this want ad from the Brunswick News? The City of Nahunta, Georgia is now accepting applications for a full-time police chief. We are looking for an experienced police officer with strong integrity and problem-solving skills to join our growing community. Full job details, requirements, benefits and an application can be required at: Nahunta City Hall, 9911 North Main Street, Nahunta, Georgia 31553, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p...
Vonda Joan Beaird was born March 18, 1938, in Los Angeles, California to Wayne and Katherine (Kay). She was a raven-haired beauty from the start. Opting to drop "Vonda" in favor of "Joan" almost immediately once given the choice, those who loved her knew her as "Joni." What a force! After surviving a near-fatal automobile accident that should have taken her from us long ago, Joni was reared in a Christian home and served the Lord from a young age, giving her testimony to those who would hear...
Gerhardt Walther Riedel, 95, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, at Avalon Health Care in San Andreas of natural causes. He was born on April 30, 1924, in Hankow, China, to Erhard and Carmelia Riedel, where his father worked as a Lutheran missionary, one of the first in China. Gerhardt ("Gary") was the fifth of eight siblings, and the family moved back to Orange County, Calif., when he was a young teenager. Gary served in the Merchant Marines as a Second Lieutenant during World War II, in...
Dr. Sarah Carpenter, an Icon in the community and the loving wife and mother of two, passed away on August 19 at the age of 66. Sarah (Sally) was born in 1952, She graduated from Stanford in 1975 and went on to receive her medical degree from Yale in 1979. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at UCLA and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital. Sarah worked for more than 20 years in the Teen Health Center at Kaiser in Panorama City. In 1981, she married...
Things are so messed up at our nation’s capital that I hardly believe anyone. Perhaps Cousin Neil would feel better if those scalwags took a blood oath to tell the truth and had their tongues notarized, and now the leaders of five of Oklahoma must powerful tribal nations have approved a resolution denouncing the new Republican governor’s plan to force negotiations for a bigger slice of revenue from Oklahoma’s tribal casinos. Down here authorities have arrested a small-town pharmacist who fille...
By Ron Bassilian Another day, another camp. The latest vagrant camp has emerged on Inglewood Blvd. under the 90 freeway, by the very upscale Sunkist Park. First, it's a couple of tents, then more, then it becomes a city in its own right - entitled to city services such as sanitation clean up, and soon we have a permanent camp with property rights. These camps are a breeding ground for petty crime, drugs, and disease such as scabies and staphylococcus. Recently, Dr Drew warned us of the...
The CROWN Coalition, a national alliance comprised of the National Urban League, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Color Of Change, and Dove, announced today the bill they are sponsoring, Senate Bill 188, The CROWN Act, passed its first policy test in the Assembly. Introduced by Culver City Senator Holly J. Mitchell, SB 188 aims to "Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair" (the CROWN Act) by clarifying that traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and...
By Ron Bassilian Special to the Observer Another day, another camp. The latest vagrant camp has emerged on Inglewood Blvd. under the 90 freeway, by the very upscale Sunkist Park. First, it’s a couple of tents, then more, then it becomes a city in its own right - entitled to city services such as sanitation clean up, and soon we have a permanent camp with property rights. These camps are a breeding ground for petty crime, drugs, and disease such as scabies and staphylococcus. Recently, Dr Drew warned us of the “epidemic typhus” which we haven...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist To the surprise of absolutely no one, California’s new governor has proposed a $209-billion state budget with billions in increased spending and lots of tax hikes. And, as a bonus, he is proposing new mandates on businesses and local governments as well as depriving Californians of the right to vote on certain kinds of local debts. From the perspective of taxpayers, this is not a propitious start. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget calls for spending of $144 billion...
It’s official. March 29th is permanently recognized as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. The statute was signed into law by President Trump. Please don’t be upset when I tell you the Council and staff will be in my opinion, working night and day to put a city tax on Netflix and probably 11 percent. Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas’s bill in Sacramento to prevent local government from putting a tax on Netflix until 2023 was stopped cold, so get out your check book. Oscar Meyer said it wi...
Protecting foster children and reforming the juvenile and criminal justice systems to put greater emphasis on prevention, rehabilitation and maintaining family cohesion are among the nine new laws by Sen. Holly J. Mitchell. The measures take effect Jan. 1, 2018, and are among Mitchell's five biggest accomplishments of the past year, highlighted in an end-of-session recap HERE:"Fighting to improve the quality of life for California children and young adults with my #EquityAndJustice package is a...
The following message is from an email to me from the offices of Congresswoman Karen Bass Do you know how many members of Team Trump have left or been forced out? Since Donald Trump took office in January he has hemorrhaged nearly a dozen high level advisers, staffers and cabinet members. From Steve Bannon to Michael Flynn to Sean Spicer to Tom Price, their abuse of power, ineptitude, dishonestly, and ties to foreign governments and white supremacists have led to their departures from the White...
I decided to spend my birthday soaking in good news. Sunshine and laughter: a lovely way to spend one's birthday. * In Quebec, a six-year-old autistic boy was so super-sensitive it hurt to have his hair touched. Franz Jacob, a barber, grabbed his tools, following the boy around his hair salon, even laying down on the floor when the boy did, to keep cutting. The boy's mother was so grateful, she put the barber's photo online. * Prison inmates around the world, competing to be the most compassiona...
The Los Angeles Focus 20th Annual First Ladies High Tea will take place on Saturday November 11 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills. Our Congresswoman the Honorable Karen Bass will be the Focus Honoree (310) 677-6011 or firstladieshightea.com. It just seems, and rightly so, Theodorsia and I are traveling more frequently and staying away longer. While we were away visiting friends and family our Congresswoman, the Honorable Karen Bass sent us this letter regarding...
I decided to spend my birthday soaking in good news. Sunshine and laughter: a lovely way to spend one's birthday. * In Quebec, a six-year-old autistic boy was so super-sensitive it hurt to have his hair touched. Franz Jacob, a barber, grabbed his tools, following the boy around his hair salon, even laying down on the floor when the boy did, to keep cutting. The boy's mother was so grateful, she put the barber's photo online. * Prison inmates around the world, competing to be the most compassiona...
When the great Russian ballet dancer Ivan Nagy was asked if ballet dancing were as easy as he made it look, he confessed, "It hurts. It hurts," with a suffering smile and begging eyes. "It hurts." It hurts. It hurts to have a president who acts this way. It hurts that there are Americans who are thrilled to have a president who acts this way. Indelibly written on our minds and hearts: Puerto Rico. Las Vegas. Stained onto our consciousness: Donald Trump's actions and words. Behavior counts....
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse the City Council’s pitcher threw a spitter high and outside. Most of us who knew his Honor Judge Harold Cherness to be honest, fair and just; a person who had the respect and admiration of the community upon his passing the Council said no tributes could be installed for at least one year. So, we waited and waited and waited some more; until a member of the Council said they were developing a new policy and there was no telling when this phase wou...
The real danger: Could Fascism replace our democracy? Are we heading to a second Civil War? Are we moving toward nuclear war? Who thought fascism and a Civil War redux would rise again? In the U.S.? At the same time? It's psychological warfare: gutting the EPA, health care, climate change (July 2017 was the hottest July in 137 years of record-keeping (NASA). Fascists oppose democracy and want totalitarianism; Mussolini and Hitler were heroes. It can't happen here. Right? Slippery slope....
Let's understand what's really going on. Presidential elections in the U.S., for years now, haven't been about candidates' personalities. As I said in a 2008 debate before London's prestigious Harkness Fellows, U.S. elections are about the role of the government in people's lives. It's not Republican glee we're seeing about cuts for needy children, medical research, health care; I suspect many Republicans actually feel awful about gutting arts and environment funding. People who can't have it al...
