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CCUSD Wants to Know – Who Do You Love ?
You know who they are. You take your kids to school every day, you drop them off knowing that they are going to be educated and cared for by some of the best people imaginable. Now is the moment to nominate your favorite teacher or classified employee for the award you know they deserve. Who is serving the kids lunch, taking their tests home to grade and teaching them to dance ? Someone you [...]
Culver City Vice Mayor Scott Malsin Resigns
In a statement made at the end of the Monday Dec. 12 City Council Meeting, Vice Mayor Scott Malsin turned in the resignation he had debated for the last several months. Malsin offered, "During the last meeting of each year Council members traditionally take the opportunity to offer their thanks to the City family for all their energy and dedication over the preceding year. This has been a [...]
Just A Thought- Completely Preoccupied (81,291 Pageviews So Far…)
I was on the phone with Patrick Meighan last night, and we were trading numbers and sighing in disbelief. It was a week ago that he sent me his piece about getting arrested with Occupy Los Angeles, and why corporate corruption inspired his protest. As of Saturday, Dec. 10, Culver City Crossroads had 81, 291 pageviews, (as per Google Analytics) hundreds of comments, and emails from New York, [...]
Local Novelist Francesca Lia Block on the Occupy Movement
When I was in college at UC Berkeley I slept out on the steps of Sproul Hall in protest of Apartheid and as part of the disinvestment campaign. There was something about the simple act of changing my routine to meditate in the dark on injustice with like-minded people that made me feel a part of something. While I can no longer easily participate in political protest of social injustice due to [...]
Dear Editor- Occupy Sacramento
It is time to occupy someone who can actually make a difference. To Sacramento everyone, during your spring break, for Occupy The State Capitol. We need a rolling Occupy, from the middle of March until the middle of April, as schools go on Spring Break, when parents, teachers, UC and CSU professors, community college professors, school custodians, cafeteria workers and office staff, and students [...]
Dear Editor- LAPD Arrests the Truth at Occupy LA
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 [...]
Metro Begins Testing Train Service
Metro will expand the operation of test trains along the Metro Expo Line corridor beginning Sunday, Dec. 4, running trains on a schedule of every 12 minutes during the day to simulate regular mid-day service on the line once the system opens in early 2012. According to The Source, the additional train testing is needed along the entire line in an effort to test the operation of the trains [...]
Dear Editor- Malsin’s Dilemma
The Perks of Office I agree with Scott Malsin that it’s unfair to change the rules for city employees in the middle of the game by reducing their benefits and that reductions should be grandfathered in for employees who are near retirement. Unlike some who have written to the editor, I don’t view public employees as members of a ‘privileged class’. They’re working people and are [...]
Barnes and Noble Marina to Benefit CCEF Dec. 5 to 9
Barnes and Noble in Marina del Rey, located at 13400 Maxella Ave in Marina Del Rey, will be holding a fundraiser benefitting the Culver City Education Foundation (CCEF) December 5th – 9th; store hours are 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. This is a perfect opportunity to shop for the holidays. Please mention CCEF at the time of your purchase to make sure we receive credit. Included purchases are books, [...]
CCMS Tops Up with GLEE! Contest
Culver City Middle School's entry in the Glee! video contest performed well. With all the votes tallied, the CCMS video has garnered over 15,000 votes, ranking it 15th in the country, eighth in the Western region and the top middle school in the country! Now, judges will make the final decision on the following criteria: relevance to music education/theme (30%); originality, creativity and [...]
