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Many police departments throughout our country took part in celebrating National Police Week. In 2016 one hundred and thirty-five officers were killed in the line of duty according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The Department of Homeland Security recently reported a sharp drop in the number of people trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico illegally. In April 2017 the number of arrests by the Border Patrol dropped 71 percent from the same time last year. The Census Bureau...
A woman recounted the terrifying moments when a man with a pellet gun shot at her vehicle during an alleged road-rage incident in Culver City late last month. The woman, who did not want to be identified, told KTLA the incident began on Culver Boulevard around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28. She was driving a white Ford Fusion when a man in a 2010 to 2012 gold Toyota Prius approached the back of her car. "I noticed him and he was driving really close behind me and swerving in between the lanes...
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....
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter The Centaur Football Express continued to gain steam after derailing the University High Wildcats, 59-0 at Jerry Chabola Stadium on the first night of Autumn 2017, September 22. Culver City High has opened the season with four wins for the first time since 2011, a start that propelled that team all the way to the CIF Championship game. The Centaur offense under senior quarterback Jonathan Martin swept through the Wildcat defense with dynamic aerial strikes along...
Life is never easy even during the best of times, but when the lens zooms in on the African continent during the South Sudanese or Rwandan genocides, Ethopian famine, the West African Ebola crisis or, as is the case with THE LAST FACE, the Liberian civil war, we see what pain, suffering and the horrific brutality of life really is. Then put activist Sean Penn in the director’s chair with a fictional narrative that stars Charlize Theron, Javier Bardem, Jared Harris and Jean Reno, and a social a...
Ezykel Audinette, 19, allegedly robbed two Culver City youths of their cell phones on Tuesday. He claimed to have a gun. The robbery happened while the boys were walking along the side of the Ballona Creek near Overland Avenue.. Based on a detailed description by the victims Audinette was arrested Tuesday for allegedly robbing the boys. According to Culver City Police, Detective Ivan Hernandez followed up on leads and identified Audinette as the suspect. Audinette was taken into custody about...
Are developers causing trouble for Fox Hills? Could greedy developers be behind the large group of youths causing trouble at the Fox Hills Mall and in Fox Hills? Are the developers secretly using social media to target youths in South Central Los Angeles, getting them to travel by bus all the way over to Fox Hills and cause mayhem? Are these developers using rowdy youths to drive down the cost of the Fox Hills Plaza and other real estate in Fox Hills by creating fear and causing owners to sell and sell low? Currently, Fox Hills real estate is...
Are developers causing trouble for Fox Hills? Could greedy developers be behind the large group of youths causing trouble at the Westfield Culver City and in Fox Hills? Are the developers secretly using social media to target youths in South Central Los Angeles, getting them to travel by bus all the way over to Fox Hills and cause mayhem? Are these developers using rowdy youths to drive down the cost of the Fox Hills Plaza and other real estate in Fox Hills by creating fear and causing owners...
I don’t believe it, but 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can normally bench-press 70 pounds, per her personal trainer. 2016 was a bad year for the people of New Jersey. No longer do they have low-priced gasoline. That’s right. Governor Chris Christie signed legislation that raised gas tax from 14.5 cents to 37.5 cents a gallon. Overnight, gas tax went from the second lowest to the seventh highest state. Louisiana, in April 2016, raised the sales tax to 9.99 percent; the high...
Feeling the fear? Scratch the surface of most Americans today. We're afraid. You're spooked whether you know it, or whether you'll admit it (which is something entirely different), whether you've pushed it so far down it's there, trying to hide, or whether you're consciously aware to the tips of your nerve endings. Right around the Presidential election most people said they were scared and overwhelmed; many saying they truly feared the future. More than half of Americans aged 40 and younger...
AVPA's Spring Musical celebrates the Culver City Centennial with a revue featuring memorable hits made famous by film and TV produced right here in Culver City. The golden age of musicals from M-G-M's heyday are the centerpieces in a revue that will tell the stories of the movies, personalities, and the songs themselves. There will be five performanc-esat Veterans Memorial Building: March 16, 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. and March 18 and 19 at 1 p.m. There will be hits from M-G-M classicsThe Wizard of...
By Cameron Shields Age 13 I received a text message from my mom asking if I wanted to go to Washington D.C. to report on President Obama honoring the Chicago Cubs with their trophy for winning the 2016 World Series. I answered with an immediate yes, but honestly I thought she was pulling a prank on me. Later that night we received a message from Kids Scoop Media wanting us to confirm our willingness to participate in this opportunity. The prank had quickly become a reality, we were actually going to Washington D.C. We immediately started...
It's a box office bonanza at the movies this weekend with not just an eclectic slate of new releases, but award-worthy films, among them the film is without a doubt the best picture of the year. Outstanding is a documentary from Otto Bell which tells the story of Aisholpan, a young Mongolian girl who follows her dream and breaks the centuries-old glass ceiling of her culture, soaring as THE EAGLE HUNTRESS. Don't be surprised to see this on the Oscar short list for Best Documentary Feature this...
Each return of New Year's Eve brings the opportunity to symbolically say good bye to old habits and outmoded things, and begin a new chapter in one's life with fresh ideas and a brighter outlook. Unfortunately and all too often, the celebration of brooming-out the old and welcoming-in the new is disrupted by indiscriminate gunfire into the air. The adage of "what goes up, must come down" rings especially true in this case, and with the acceleration of gravity, physics determine free-falling...
As reported in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners (Board of Supervisors as it’s called in California) voted 5-0 to spend $13.4 million for the new countywide 800 MHz data radio communications system. This replacement network will be tied to new 800 MHz radios being purchased by each of the six Cobb cities for 911 center communications. Funding will come from the 2016 Special Purpose Local Options Sales Tax Funds. Could this be the reason or part of the r...
Centaurs Look to Upend Covina in First Semi-final Since 2011 By Greg Goodyear & Larry Weiner After traveling three hours to Coachella Valley to play a strong and large opponent and coming away with a nail-biting 45-27 victory Culver City High comes marching home for a CIF Division 11 semi-final contest against the Covina Colts. The Colts finished tied for first place in the Valle Vista League and are 10-2 this year (4-1 in league play) and ranked fourth in Division 11. Last Friday night they defeated Westminster 42-28 to advance. They are a...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says one vehicle in eight still needs to be checked for defective Takata air bags. NHTSA recommends owners check for recall information, and if their vehicle is part of the recall, contact a local dealer for a free repair. Just in case you haven’t heard, the City of Chicago is in deep trouble with their employee pension costs. Chicago will pay about $1 billion next year into four separate pension funds. To cover that in part, their c...
Dear Editor. For your reading edification or disdain, the following will be my votes on the 17 propositions on this year’s California ballot. Prop 51 – Yes: Authorizes $9 billion in bonds for construction and modernization of K-12 schools, charter schools and community colleges. Education is the base on which we build our future, it deserves our funding. Prop 52 – Yes: The Medi-Cal Hospital fee is a current, successful program that saves California money and funds hospitals. It expires in 2018 a...
It's going around, like December's flu. We're all afraid of it, and everyone's catching it. You're not sure if you've got it; you just sense something's wrong. Feeling anxious? Fear, foreboding, worry. Disquiet. They define it. The antonym's tranquility. Can you truthfully say this election's got you feeling tranquil? Everyone I speak to is worried; the doubts go beyond who'll win the White House. Hillary Clinton took donations from foreign countries to the family's foundation, then gave them...
The Los Angeles Rams' 2016 season is suddenly spiraling downward as they lost a 'home' game to the New York Giants, 17-10, at Twickenham Stadium, just outside London, England on October 23rd, just in time to spoil early Sunday morning breakfast for the legions of Rams fans in Southern California. Quarterback Case Keenum put an exclamation on a disastrous 4th quarter following a stellar performance in a loss to the Detroit Lions last weekend as he threw an interception on the final drive for the...
In November vote for our firefighters, our paramedics and our police and against the power-grabbing politicians who just want their $250,000 salaries and $200,000 pensions. It seems as though in every area of the human experience ladies are making headway. More and more jobs are becoming available and the salary gap is narrowing. Why, even the U.S. Navy SEALS will have females next year. So why is it that in the Culver City fire house in the past 100 years no progress has been made? That’s r...
The Culver City Mayor Jim B. Clark was honored Friday, August the 12th at Meridian of Cheviot Hill's Grand Opening, with a Lifetime Achievement Award given by the World Wide Corporation of Meridian Senior Living and by the creators of the ground breaking senior activity program, "Seniors on the Move Today". Mayor Jim B. Clark was honored openly for a lifetime of consistently lending a hand to those in need and the care he shows for all the wonderful people of Culver City. Meridian of Cheviot...
At 3:55 p.m. Monday a man stole a FedEx truck that was making deliveries. The truck was at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Tilden Avenue. The suspect then crashed into a mixed-use building on Washington and was detained by people in a nearby business, according to police. The suspect then ran inside the Martin B. Retting gun store and proceeded to attack an employee. He was stopped by the store's other employees using pepper spray until Culver City Police arrived. The suspect was then transported to an area hospital for evaluation...
I'm talking with M., a friend in England, about the hideous violence in Orlando. "Well, you know, it's America." he said. That bothered me. I launched into various rational reactions, but inside, I felt hurt. My country right or wrong, and all that? No, I wouldn't. Yet it's undeniable: people in other countries look at us as if we're aliens. OK, in the UK, no one is allowed to own a gun. The police don't carry guns. The news is not filled with gun violence. But we're the United States. There's...
I'm talking with M., a friend in England, about the hideous violence in Orlando. "Well, you know, it's America." he said. That bothered me. I launched into various rational reactions, but inside, I felt hurt. My country right or wrong, and all that? No, I wouldn't. Yet it's undeniable: people in other countries look at us as if we're aliens. OK, in the UK, no one is allowed to own a gun. The police don't carry guns. The news is not filled with gun violence. But we're the United States. There's a...
