Articles from the February 17, 2022 edition
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CC Council Okays Zoning Changes to Convert Motels into Homeless Shelters
The Culver City Council this week approved zoning changes which would allow for the conversion of two motels on Sepulveda Boulevard into emergency shelters and transitional housing for the homeless....
Business Tax Deadline Loams
February 28 is the deadline businesses to file for the annual business license tax certificate. All associations, organizations, clubs, and societies which offer goods, materials, commodities, wares,...
Demo Clubs To Hold Debate with Sheriff Contenders
The Santa Monica Democratic Club and the Culver City Democratic Club will host (via zoom) a Sheriff Candidate Debate on February 23rd at 8 PM. The current Sheriff Alex Villanueva will face numerous...
Homeless Crisis Is Now Top Issue for LA County Voters
Los Angeles County voters have "a complete lack of faith" in the city of Los Angeles and their county to address the homelessness crisis. That's the consensus of six focus groups, according to a...
27 Candidates – including Bass – File Paperwork to Run for L.A. Mayor
Karen Bass, Culver City's congressional representative, will have to defeat a large field of candidates to become the next mayor of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Clerk's office said that 27...
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Culver City High School girls' basketball is the last team standing
Last week four Culver City high school varsity teams entered the prestigious CIF Southern Section playoffs and only one team made it through the first round, girls' basketball. Boys' basketball,...
Chargers can learn from the Rams and Bengals
The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in Super Bowl LVI, 23-20 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. It was the second Super Bowl Championship for the Rams organization, the other com...
Rams put it all together to win the Super Bowl
Priceless! The Los Angeles Rams 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, was well-worth the six-year effort since owner Stan Kroenke brought the team...
A Century of Dancing Ends in Santa Monica as Joan Bayley Joins History...
Written by: Ashley Griffin Joan Bayley, classical dancer, and principle choreographer/choreographic assistant during MGM's Golden Era passed away on January 5th 2022, just shy of her 102nd birthday....
Animal Love
By The LA Zoo Looking for a wild way to celebrate Valentine's Day this year? Show your love with a gift that helps save endangered species and symbolically ADOPT an animal at the Los Angeles Zoo! All ADOPT packages include a personalized adoption...
Barney's Beanery
"Our business is currently off by over 50%. I can't imagine how much this will hurt us going forward…" By David Houston, Owner, Barneys Beanery. First of all, thank you (to DTSM) for all your help during these last two years of the pandemic. Unfortun...
Dog's Life
By David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer K-9 Jack is an explosives expert at moving and static explosives; a fine distinction we'll explain in a moment. We met the yellow Labrador and his trainer, Offi...
Human Trafficking and The Super Bowl
By Alita Arose, Observer Staff Writer Due to an increase in both traffic and demand during the super bowl, anti-trafficking organizations are working double time to increase city wide awareness and...
Process for Lincoln Project Not Fair
As background, I have lived in Santa Monica for almost 50 years and served on the Board of Friends of Sunset Park neighborhood group for over 10 years in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Back then, we felt that developers might overrun the city with pro...
Local Briefs
City Rejects Vaccine Mandates 2/8/22: Santa Monica will not require that indoor restaurants and other businesses, require vaccines in order to enter their businesses. After City Staff presented a study stating that indoor vaccine mandates were...
