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Culver City Mayor Jeff Cooper was beaming as he addressed over 400 residents and business people on Tuesday at the annual Mayor's luncheon. "Culver City is at the cutting edge of cities around the country, in terms of what we have been able to accomplish, and what we plan to accomplish going forward," he stated during the luncheon where he discussed his tenure on the City Council. The packed house listened as the introspective mayor listed the accomplishments during his eight years in office...
The election to fill the unexpired Terms of Assemblymember Sebastian Ridley-Thomas will be Tuesday, April 3, 2018. At that time, we have the opportunity to send to Sacramento a lady who will be able to hit the floor running. Please look at her endorsements and her background of well over 15 yeas of dedicated service to our community. Sidney knows what’s important to people in our district and will work hard to accomplish those goals. If you want a tireless worker vote Sydney Kamlager you will be...
The following statement was issued on Monday by Councilmembers Goran Eriksson And Jim Clarke regarding Fox Hills Plaza: “As a result of discussions between Council members Goran Eriksson and Jim Clarke with real estate developers HSH Management, the developer has decided to suspend activity on the Fox Hills Plaza Project. From these discussions, the developer has notified the City of its intention to forego presenting a community benefits proposal to the City Council on March 26th. The result of this decision means that the project will not b...
At its February meeting, the Heart of LA Democratic Club, a new Los Angeles County-wide Democratic club which promotes equality and the full representation of women in local, state and national politics, voted to endorse Alex Fisch and Albert Vera for Culver City Council. The City elections will be held Tuesday, April 10. HLADems President Lindsay Carlson says, "Our candidate questionnaire, townhall, and interview questions covered a wide-range of topics-from policies and issues that concern...
Democratic Party candidate Sydney Kamlager has been endorsed by the California league of Conservation Voters (CLCV) in her Tuesday, April 3 Special Election campaign for state Assembly. Ms. Kamlager said, "I greatly appreciate the support and endorsement I've received from the California League of Conservation Voters, the non-partisan political action arm of California's environmental movement. CLCV's members work collectively to protect and enhance California's environment and the health of...
Alex Conte Age 8 CCUSD Student March 13 at 10:38pm; Today, we watched Air Force One land and it was really cool. Then lots of people came out of the back of the plane and the President came out of the front of the plane. It was raining so he didn't talk to the press. My favorite planes were the helicopter, Marine One, and the giant gray aircraft that carried two helicopters, a limousine they call "the beast" and a bunch of cars to California. I would have liked to ask President Trump if he...
Beyond Pre-K in Spanish Preschool held its annual Open House on Thursday, March 15th for prospective and current parents. The Preschool, which is taught in Spanish, displayed a variety of arts, crafts and projects the children have been working on over the last few months, including a world rug made out of succulent plants, dream catchers, murals and paintings. Maestra Vera Chang García said: “The children should be very proud of their work. Our gym looked just like an art museum!” Beyond Pre-K in Spanish is located at Culver City West Park...
Mr. Hadland, Thank you for your article entitled “Council Race Turns Ugly”. Attached are two photos of the cowardly communist on my doorstep, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and always looking down, away from the cameras, to hide his identity. You may recall this almost identical hit piece was done two years ago against Goran Eriksson and Scott Wyant. I find these tactics revolting. The extremist, anti-business tone is particularly egregious, considering businesses provide jobs, salaries, goods, ser...
Culver City Teacher’s Pensions from Transparent California was the headline in Neil Rubenstein’s column on March 15. Within this lengthy column (tackling many subjects) was a list of retired teachers’ names and pension amounts, including ours, followed by this sentence. “In 2016, Teacher pensions paid a total of $11,390,424. In the opinion of many we need a Beverly Hills CPA and a Philadelphia lawyer to keep expenses under control, but now you know the real reason the school district needs more...
Jay Wierenga, Communications Director of the Fair Political Practices Commission issued the following clarification to the statement which appeared in the March 15, 2018 edition of the Culver City Observer: “First of all, we don’t administer ‘California State Election codes’. The Secretary of State monitors elections, and election code is not in our section of law. We only have jurisdiction over the Political Reform Act, so I would never and did not say anything about California State Election codes. I also do not recall and would likely...
Hackman Capital Partners, LLC, a Los-Angeles-based real estate investment firm and long-time Culver City stakeholder, announced on Wednesday that Amazon will be occupying the entire 75,000-square-foot office portion of its new, mixed-use development, The Culver Steps. The four-story project is situated at 9300 Culver Boulevard in downtown Culver City, California, directly adjacent to The Culver Studios, the iconic television and movie studio, where Amazon Studios has already begun moving into the historic mansion and bungalows. The company...
As the late great Ernie Banks used to say: "Let's play two." Culver City High baseball swept a home daylight doubleheader against Peninisula High on Saturday, March 17. Three days later the Centaurs traveled just down the road to rout St. Bernard 9-2 in their opening game of the St. Paul Easter Tournament to run its 2018 season record to 8-1. The Centaurs won the twinbill opener 6-2 before edging out the Panthers 5-4 in the second game versus Peninsula. It was another test passed for the young...
Youth and speed are served. Culver City High track and field continued its fine early season form in the 2018 Mustang Relays at Mira Costa High in Manhattan Beach on Saturday, March 17. The Centaur girls and boys respective frosh/soph and varsity squads took home five first place medals including a meet record for one young student athlete. The Culver tracksters were among 20 high school teams from nine different leagues that competed in 64 race finals for the 16 track and field events. The...
The UCLA women's basketball team is the last team from Southern California to survive the madness in March. Their two wins last Saturday and Monday have put them in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA women's tournament for the third straight year. Next up for the 26-7 Bruins is a date with 28-6 Texas in the Kansas City Regional at 6 p.m. on Friday. To reach the regionals the Bruins had to win two games at home. Last Saturday they beat American University 71-60 and Monday they destroyed Creighton 86-64....
Thank you, Colin. And thanks to the Chamber for organizing this lunch. It has truly been an honor to serve as your Mayor for the past year. I would most importantly like to thank my wife Rafia and daughters for all their love, support and understanding as I served our great city for the last eight years. -- Earlier this month I represented Culver City at a conference in Austin, Texas, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where over 30 mayors from around the U.S. –and around the w...
The Culver City Observer has received an anonymous, inflammatory flyer that blasted two of the City Council candidates as lackeys of the local chamber of commerce. The campaign flyer, which was distributed to residents this week, drew strong rebuke from local residents and people on social media who wondered about"our city of kindness." The flyer attacking Albert Vera and Marcus Tiggs was apparently created by a group identified only as "Ad Hoc Committee for Culver City Residents First." In the...
Former Culver City Mayor and current City Councilmember Jim Clarke has added his name to the growing list of endorsements of Marcus Tiggs, candidate for the Culver City Council in the April 10 election. This comes in addition to current Mayor Jeff Cooper and City Councilmember Goran Eriksson's endorsements. "At the end of each candidate forum Marcus has opined that all of the candidates probably agree on 80% of the issues while disagreeing on 20%. His focus, if elected, is on working with his...
