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By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter Seats were packed in the Mike Balkman Council Chamber at City Hall as three Culver City School Board members were sworn in at the Board's Tuesday night meeting....

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The City Council took action this week to begin planning for the 2014 Summer Concert Series, a gesture which may help the popular free concert series toward an...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The Expo Authority's latest community meeting, held October 30 at Vista Del Mar Center in Palms, offered extensive information about the progress of Phase Two of t...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of a dark moment in American and world history-the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter Although the Inglewood Oil Field near Culver City continues to be a controversial site because of the issue of hydraulic fracturing used in oil and gas...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter Drivers and pedestrians crossing Venice Boulevard near National at the Culver City/Los Angeles border are passing under a wooden bridge that spans Venice...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter Culver City Unified School District (CCUSD) is implementing a Professional Learning Community (PLC) using the Common Core standards--and the School Board is being...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The Culver City School Board heard from the CCUSD Environmental Sustainability Committee at its meeting Tuesday night. And like the U2 song playing as background...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter October 1, 2013 marked the first day of a federal government shutdown in which more than 800,000 federal workers were forced into unpaid furloughs and many...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter There’s no doubt that parking is a major concern of Culver City residents. The City Council meeting Monday night dealt with the subject and gave direction to c...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The City Council and Planning Commission sat in a joint meeting Monday night to review the city’s draft 2013-2021 Housing Element, to hear public comment, p...

By Lynne Bronstein Observer Reporter The three-block street near Sorrento Market previously known as Bush Way has been re-named for Albert and Ursula Vera, former owners of Sorrento Market. The City C...

Council Honors Veras With Street Re-Naming The three-block street near Sorrento Market previously known as Bush Way has been re-named for Albert and Ursula Vera, former owners of Sorrento Market. The...

Should smoking be banned in multi-unit dwellings in Culver City? That was the question mulled at the City Council’s meeting Monday night. The answer did not come easily. The item before the Council w...

Council Weighs Consequences Of Smoking Ban Should smoking be banned in multi-unit dwellings in Culver City? That was the question mulled at the City Council’s meeting Monday night. The answer did not...

Residents Prevail In Parking Meter Dispute When Bob Dylan sang “Don’t follow leaders/Watch your parking meters” he never dreamed that at Monday night’s Council meeting a large number of Culver...

Challenge To Expo Line Extension Fails A neighborhood group’s challenge to the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the planned extension of the Expo Line light rail system from Culver City to S...

Council Mulls Notification Question What does it mean to post public notices of civic actions? And what news media qualify as outlets for publication of such notices? The City Council discussed these...

CCUSD Deficit Shrinks Like Culver City’s own budget, the 2013-2014 budget for the Culver City School Board, approved at the Board’s meeting Tuesday night, is a much better-looking budget than in rec...

Council Approves Predictable Budget The Drama of Recent Years Is Missing The 2013-2014 Culver City budget was adopted Monday night but compared to the drama of recent years, when the Council had to ap...

Council Hears Department Budget Overviews Working up to next week’s approval of the 2013-2914 Budget for Culver City, the City Council Monday and Tuesday heard presentations from each city d...

Council Splits Tree and Parkway Ordinance Mulling an introduced ordinance to amend and clarify regulations for tree removals and standards for parkways in Culver City, the City Council Tuesday...

What’s This? An Optimistic Budget Two possible milestones marked the Monday night City Council meeting. The Council passed an ordinance banning the use of single-use plastic bags in retail stores, a...

Students in Culver City Middle School’s AVID program had the experience this past year of hearing members of the Chamber of Commerce talk about their businesses and the job potential of those b...

Culver’s New Mayor: Jeff Cooper Sahli-Wells Becomes Vice Mayor Culver City’s new Mayor is Jeffrey Cooper; the Vice Mayor is Meghan Sahli-Wells. The new leaders of the City Council were chosen at Mon...