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Eliminate Filbuster
Dear editor, In his first few months as Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell has given us a preview of how Republicans will behave for the next four years. They will use every tool at their...
Supports Phased Returns to the Classroom
Dear editor, No one wants to be back in the classroom more than educators. Nothing would make me happier than to welcome every one of my students back to my classrooms in a way that keeps us all...
Supports$5 Per Hour Extra Pay
Dear Editor: On February 23, 2021 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted in favor of establishing "Hero Pay" for grocery and drug store employees. The pay would be $5.00 per hour in...
Landlords stuck with bad Tenants
Dear Editor, I’m a tenant and when this started, I knew it was good for the poor, but bad for the landlords…ESPECIALLY those who have bad tenants. I’ve read some nightmare stories about those who d...
Calls for Councilman Lee Needs to Apologize
Dear Editor; Last night Culver City Councilmember Dan Lee insultingly called all the Culver City Police RACIST! What saddens me is that no other council members called him out for his outrageous...
Enough of CC Councilmember Dan Lee calling CC Police Racists
Dear Editor, I have to agree with Mr Z. I am getting really tired of our elected officials calling our excellent police department racist. It sickens me the way that they have highjacked that word to...
Reader Disputes Overfunding of Public Employee Unions
To the Editor: In a letter published in the Observer (Jan. 7 – 13, 2021) Will Swaim makes the rather absurd claim that public employee unions “are by far the most powerful and lavishly overfunded pol...
Politician Ignore COVD- 19 Restrictions
Dear Editor, Take this pop quiz: What do Governor Gavin Newsom, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, and San Jose Mayor Sam...
Christmas Eve
Dear Stephen, When I was growing up, Christmas Eve always had a singular sense of the sacred. My grandparents, who were Italian immigrants, spent the evening cooking and setting up their large nativit...
COVID-19 implication on flu vaccination rates
DEAR EDITOR,, On a Saturday morning, during the month October 2020; more than 80 cars are lined up on the streets adjacent to a medical office building in Culver City, California. It is noted that...
Halloween This Year Could Be Deadly
As parents and grandparents we want and need to do everything possible to keep our family safe. Halloween is and always has been my favorite holiday. BUT this year due to the pandemic things are...
Kent Does Not Have What It Takes
Dear Editor What many in our community have found out since progressive majorities were put onto the local city council and school board, is that even if candidates can pass voters’ litmus-tests on p...
Culver City Just Lost its Moral Compass
Dear Editor, As a thirty-five year resident of Culver City, I've seen lots of changes - some good and some bad. But never yet have I witnessed the City losing its moral compass . . . until tonight, June 25, 2018. The City Council convened to discuss...
Dear Honorable Mayor, Vice-Mayor, Council Members and Staff:
Re: Realignment of City Budget due to COVID-19 Shutdown and Losses in Revenue In light of the pandemic and its devastating impacts at all levels of society, the Culver City Coalition for Fiscal...
Praise for Zeidman
Dear Editor, We all grew up in Culver City and we graduated from Culver City High school in the past five years. Now, as adults and part of the Culver City community, we look forward to and expect...
Rent Contol Questions for the Culver City Council
Dear Editor, These are the ecomments I submitted to the city council regarding Action Item a last Monday evening, 8-17-120: "Honorable Mayor, vice mayor and members of the council. Given that permanen...
Defend, Not Defund Our Culver City Police Department
Last night city council deliberated on the task force to "reimagine public safety". This drew out the usual "defund the police" crowd. Rather than have a bunch of us speak at the meeting and draw it...
Brentwood Urgent Care is Creating a Covid-19 Nuisance
By Maryann Gray I am a Santa Monica resident who lives near the Brentwood Urgent Care center, which is on 26th Street just north of Wilshire (1156 26th). In recent weeks, Brentwood Urgent Care has sta...
Opposition to Defunding CCPD
Dear Councilmember, I am writing to express my disapproval of what appears to be a reflexive action to consider reducing the budget of our police dept based on the recent unrest surrounding the...
It's Time to Open Our Beaches
Dear Editor, It's complete nonsense to say it is not safe to go to the beach! It's a well known fact that breathing ocean breeze sea air and taking in vitamin D rich sun rays has more health benefits...
Observer Needs Health & Science Section
Dear Editor, I write in response to the various COVID-19 articles published in the Observer recently to insist that a Health and Science section be added to your newspaper. As a public health...
Culver City Animals
Dear Editor: Following up on the recent letter by Madeline Bernstein, President spcaLA, “In time of uncertainty, spcaLA is essential”, I would like to add information for those residents who love the...
City Hall Should Have Acted Sooner
Dear City Manager, Council Members, Chief Bixby, I was shocked to see the school open till Friday late afternoon, as I was shocked to see Most of you mishandling cases and make residents come to City...
Pleads to Save Community Garden
Dear City Council Members and City Clerk: I am a Culver City gardener, a long-term Culver City resident and business owner. On behalf of my fellow gardeners and potential members we implore you to...
In my opinion, we do not have a homeless crisis in Culver City.
There is no evidence that any resident of Culver City is homeless and living on the streets of Culver City. Let us end this facade by taking the follow steps: 1. Return the $23 million in federal and...