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Costco Rocks – Good Karma is Good Business
It’s official; paying decent wages and treating your employees properly makes better business sense and leads to higher profits. Costco is Exhibit A. While their second biggest competitor, Wal-mart, only saw a 1.2% rise in year on sales, Costco’s most recent quarterly earnings report showed an 8% rate of growth in year on sales, a 5% rise in same-store sales, and an almost $70 million rise in [...]
Jury Awards Millions in Police Shooting
A jury has awarded $8.8 million to the family of a robber who was shot and killed by a Culver City police officer. The Los Angeles Times reported a federal jury issued the verdict on Wednesday, May 8. Twenty-seven-year-old Lejoy Grissom was killed three years ago after an officer pulled over his car in a parking lot because he suspected Grissom had robbed a local electronics [...]
Courage Against the Kochs – Sign Here
The Koch Brothers are the worst of the worst. Oil and gas billionaires, they're known for buying elections, funding anti-science organizations, union busting, dodging taxes, and twisting democracy any way they can to promote their personal agenda. In a move reported on the front page of the April 21st, 2013 New York Times, they want to buy the Tribune Company and all of its newspapers to [...]
Police Blotter – Gun Used in Robbery
Crime Blotter for April 30th through May 6th. Car Burglary: On April 30, 2013 at 5:05 pm, a victim called the police department to report her 2008 Lexus was burglarized. The victim said she parked and locked her car in the 8600 block of Washington Boulevard at 9:30 am. When she returned at 5:00 pm she discovered the driver’s side passenger window had been broken out and her property [...]
LAX Expansion Draws More Cities into Common Concerns
Ontario and the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors will join Inglewood and Culver City in a legal battle over an environmental plan for LAX approved by the Los Angeles City Council last week. According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the three cities and the county announced Tuesday that they are seeking legal mediation with Los Angeles over its approval of a $4.8 billion plan to [...]
Council and Cultural Affairs Salute May as Historical Preservation Month
On Monday, May 13, at the Culver City Council meeting, there will be a proclamation presentation made for Historic Preservation. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. At the May 14, Culver City Cultural Affairs Commission meeting, City Historian, Julie Lugo Cerra, will offer an illustrative PowerPoint presentation focusing on Culver City's distinctive historic structures and local efforts in historic [...]
Water Savers Get City Recognition
Ten Culver City organizations are being honored for implementing water efficient practices within their regular operating procedures. West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin), in partnership with the City of Culver City and Golden State Water Company, will acknowledge the efforts of these organizations at the upcoming City Council Meeting on May 13, 2013. The list of water-efficient [...]
Anti-Fracking Bills Pass – Rebecca Rona Tuttle
Three bills that would halt fracking in California won key votes last week in Sacramento, passing the Assembly’s Committee on Natural Resources despite intense pressure from the oil industry. One of the three bills, A.B. 1323, was authored by Assembly Member Holly Mitchell, whose 54th District includes Culver City. Local residents opposed to fracking had met with and educated her for more [...]
Undereducated = Overincarcerated; Can the Arts Turn This Around ? Click Here for Live Feed
California State Senator Curren Price (District 26 - that's us) is hosting a hearing of the Joint Committee on the Arts this afternoon (May 3 from 1 to 3pm) examining the history of the Arts in Corrections program in California. Can art help to rehabilitate inmates? Can art open the door to at-risk youth, and lead them away from the prison system? There will be testimony from visual and [...]
Police Blotter – Signature Forged
Crime Blotter for April 23rd through April 30th. Vandalism: On April 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm, officers responded to the 9000 block of Lindblade Street regarding a vandalism investigation. The officers met with the reporting party who told then the following; he saw a co-worker throw an object out of a vehicle causing damage to the object and the parking lot. Forgery: On April 25, 2013 at 3:00 pm, [...]
