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  • Kiwis Help Habitat For Humanity Build Homes in Culver City

    Tara Egan, Observer Reporter|Nov 22, 2018

    A group of New Zealanders and volunteers for Habitat For Humanity were busy last weekend working on six new homes on Globe Avenue in Culver City. Habitat For Humanity is an organization that helps build and provide housing to families and individuals who are in need of more affordable housing. According to its website, "Los Angeles ranks as one of the least affordable housing areas in the U.S." Once the volunteers complete their work, there will be 10 new family-sized homes off on Glove Avenue,...

  • Parcel Tax, Sales Tax Measures On Local Ballot

    Tara Egan, Observer Reporter|Nov 1, 2018

    When Culver City voters go to the polls next week for the statewide election, they will also vote on three local measures, including two calling to tax increases. Measure C, called the "Culver City Neighborhood Safety and City Services Protection Measure" will increase the City's sales tax by one quarter percent. Currently, the local sales tax in the City is 10% of the purchase price of taxable items, Culver City currently receives 1.5% and the remaining 8.5% goes to the State and County. If Mea...

  • Cannabis Application Deadline Looms

    Tara Egan, Observer Reporter|Sep 20, 2018

    Culver City officials are bracing for what could be an avalanche of applications from entrepreneurs hoping to obtain one of the three permits to legally sell marijuana from retail storefronts within the City boundaries as the Sept. 27 deadline to submit all the paperwork approaches. The trio of permits will be the first that Culver has ever offered. Applications for the permits, which would enable the holder to legally operate a retail storefront cannabis business, must be received by 5 p.m....