Mother used to say, “Money doesn’t grow on trees”, so I asked the Culver City Unified School District in the beginning of 2018 how much money they spent to pass the forthcoming Parcel Tax election. From September 15, 2017, to February 8, 2018, they spent $48,617.68 which includes $14,332.52 for printing and postage for the community mailer.
If anyone knows how to get in touch with Culver City’s former City Clerk, please let me know. Martin Cole is M.I.A. (missing in action).
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee meetings are regularly scheduled for the third Wednesday of every month at the Culver City Senior Center, Room C77, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
I was very pleased when the head of the VA Regional Medical Center in Dublin, Georgia held a meeting to discuss new medical benefits to the 60,000 Vets living in 49 counties in this part of Georgia.
The State of Washington is expected to vote this December on a proposal to replace the gas tax with a pay-per-mile system. We are thinking about driving down this week to Jacksonville, Florida and at Sam’s Club 93 octane gasoline is $2.66 per gallon.
Were you aware the California Public Utilities Commission has proposed a tax on text messages? What’s next?
A CBS report tracked 82,000 women between ages 50 and 79 for up to twelve years and this study revealed ladies who drank two or more diet drinks per day saw their overall stroke risk rise by 23 percent.
Bar patrons can leave their vehicles parked overnight to avoid driving home drunk under a new initiative approved by the Green Bay, Wisconsin City Council.
You remember. I remember...we all remember the West Nile virus and the Mediterranean Fruit Fly. What a mess. Well, mosquitoes in the greater Cincinnati area have tested positive for the virus so take precautions.
The next time you are near Fairfield, California, why not stop at the free jellybean factory town. I don’t want to waste time with the tours (daily 9:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.) just load me up with the free samples. (bit.ly jelly belly tour).
The last U.S. Navy warship sunk in WWII has been located. In 1945 just off the coast of Maine, a German submarine torpedoed the USS Eagle killing 13 of the 62 crew members.
How is it possible Kim Le handled thousands of prescriptions as a pharmacist in three San Francisco area Walgreens without a license? For eleven years no one checked, I just guess we were lucky. She didn’t claim to be a surgeon.
While in Nashville, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee says he’s in favor of changing a law that requires the state to honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early Ku Klux Klan leader.
Records show West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s companies owe almost $2 million in delinquent taxes in neighboring Virginia.
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