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By David W. Myers Managing Editor After weeks of debate, the Culver City Council has approved the Police Department's request to spend up to $650,000 to outfit its Duquesne Avenue headquarters with some new office furniture and to fix some of its dilapidated old ones. The Council's unanimous vote seemed to be swayed by a slide-show presented by a Police spokesman. The pictures showed office chairs that were missing a leg or arm, computer and telephone power cords strewn about because there was...
At 02:30am Thursday morning, a strike team including Culver City engine companies E41 & E43 along with Beverly Hills E1, E3 and Santa Monica E6 were deployed to the Cranston Fire burning in the San Bernardino National Forest near Idyllwild....
By Sami Shanman, Age 14 Kid Scoop Media Correspondent March For Our Lives was started by a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas students after 17 students died on their Parkland, Fla. campus in one of the largest school shootings in American History. It has now grown to include students who have been victims of gun violence from all across the country. Those students soon put together "March For Our Lives" to lead protests across the country in response to the inaction of politicians who have...
Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw and the rest of the Dodgers will start a seven game home stand on Monday against the Milwaukee Brewers.ay...
The obvious winners from the Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME last month are the hundreds of thousands of teachers and other public workers who will no longer have union “agency fees” involuntarily taken from their paychecks. In the long run, however, the benefits to "Blue State" budgets may prove more consequential. Having promised public workers big pensions without saving the money to pay them, many of these states are fiscal time bombs. Nationwide, state pensions have unf...
Dear Editor, Drought? We don’t got no (sic) stinking drought! On May 22, I emailed the city manager, John Nachbar, regarding a massive ongoing water leak from the irrigation system at the Culver City Post Office at Culver Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue. He replied, as did one of his minions, that the situation would be corrected. I've also tweeted to culvercity311 about this situation twice. Yet, here it is--two full months later--and water still floods the gutter on Lincoln all the way from C...
Opening Day 2018 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Racetrack once again lived up to its billing, delighting the festive hat-adorned crowd. The predicted foul weather was held at bay where "the turf meets the surf" and instead gave way to sunny skies by late afternoon. Minutes earlier, the featured $100,000 Oceanside Stakes race was won by 11-1 longshot Restrainedvengence. The early excitement for the 33,112 in attendance revolved around the 24th annual Opening Day Hats Contest. Five celebrity...
The Los Angeles Rams took another big step in becoming an NFL championship threat on Tuesday as they agreed to a four-year extension contract with running back Todd Gurley. The reported $60-million deal secures Gurley with the team through the 2023 season. Rams General Manager Les Snead and Head Coach Sean McVay addressed the signing, other developments and the start of the team’s training camp that has just opened in Irvine. “Like Les mentioned, we were able to agree to an extension with Tod...
With the heat pushing record temperatures again officials have opened the Culver City Senior Center as a "cooling center this week. The center is located at 4095 Overland Ave. The center is open on Monday through Thursday from 9am until 5pmsaturday and Sunday from 12pm until 4pm. Call for parking directions (310) 253-6700 Officials are recommending residents take the following actions: • Avoid the sun from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. when the burning rays are strongest. • Reduce physical activity. • Wear...
Proving that women mayors "just wanna have fun" too, Jozelle Smith and Meghan Sahli-Wells attend the sneak preview reception of the soon-to-open Lucky's, formerly Dear John's, 11208 Culver Blvd. Culver City Observer staff photo...
By David W. Myers Managing Editor Love them or hate them, more Birds are arriving in Culver City. By a unanimous 5-0 vote, the Culver Council has agreed to allow Bird, the motorized-scooter firm that lets one paying customer to pick-up an electronic scooter and then drop it somewhere else, to expand its local fleet from its current 50 or so to about 200. The Council also took steps to authorize a second company. Lime-S, to add yet another 200 to the motor-scooter pool. "This is our chance to...
