Opinions
Dear Editor – Housing? Here’s How
Dear Editor, As a 14 year resident of Culver City it is encouraging to see current city staff and elected officials tackle difficult and sometimes thorny or loaded issues. This weekend’s community conversation around affordable housing is a prime example of matching forward thinking with substantive action. When I ran for city council last year I often spoke about affordability as a large [...]
Dear Editor – Thankful for Nov. 8
Dear Editor, I am a 33 year old working mother living in Culver City with my husband, toddler son, and sometimes our shih tzu (my parents take him a lot to help us out). Since the election, I’ve vacillated between spasms of rage (in which I make frantic donations to various progressive organizations), sadness (in which I cry at the mere sight of President Obama and his beautiful family), and [...]
Dear Editor – Red Light Camera Issues
Dear Editor, Making the City safer is paramount, so I will discuss it first. Page 3 of the staff report says that there were eight collisions in 2014, and then discusses the number of collisions in 2015 and 2016. But it does not discuss years prior to 2014, which is curious considering that the City has had cameras for seventeen years. The following table, copied from the annual report [...]
Dear Editor – Adding More Red Light Cameras
Dear Editor, At meeting of the 12th the Culver City city council will consider a police recommendation to install six red light cameras at three new intersections. Here, from the staff report (copy attached) is a table of the violations recorded at those intersections during a 12-hour site survey or "test hang" conducted in early October. The police are recommending two cameras at each [...]
Dear Editor – PTSA & Panther Partners Are Fundraising
Hi friends, I’m writing to you because you have kids at Culver City Middle School, or had them, or will have them… or because you’re supportive of the Culver City community generally. Have I ever told you how fabulous you are? So I’m asking: do you have five dollars to spare? Because even five dollars will make a difference. Panther Partners of CCMS (our booster club) and the [...]
Dear Editor – Display of Solidarity
Dear Editor, Friday morning I was grateful and encouraged to be part of a loving display of solidarity for Culver City's Muslim community at the King Fahad Mosque. As worshippers arrived for the 1 o'clock prayer service they were greeted by men and women from the surrounding neighborhoods holding signs of support and children and parents making sidewalk chalk drawings on the sidewalks [...]
Dear Editor – Community Health Council Responds to Election Results
Dear Friends and Colleagues, What happened to this nation last week deserved a moment of silence. We at CHC took the time to talk to each other about what this meant to us as individuals, to our families, to our communities, and to all the hard won victories that impact equity. In many ways, we will continue to move through a process that will take all types of responses and actions to [...]
Dear Editor – Mayor Clarke Asks for a Yes Vote
The most important issues on the November 8th ballot may be the items at the end of the ballot pertaining to Culver City. So when marking your ballot, you may want to start at the bottom. Please vote YES on Measures CW, CA, CB and CD and feel free to share this with your friends and neighbors. Measure CW - a parcel tax to fund required mitigation measures resulting from stormwater/urban [...]
Dear Editor – Yes on Measure CA
I am in support of a YES vote on Measure CA, and this is why. As I recall, back in 2006, when the Charter was being updated, there was a split in the City Council on this issue. At that time, Gary Silbiger, who was a council member at that time, was adamant that change of appointing authority and reporting responsibilities of the Fire Chief and Police Chief from the City Council to the City [...]
Dear Editor – An Open Letter to the Voters of Culver City
As former Mayors of Culver City, we urge Culver City voters to join us in supporting Measure CA on the November 8th ballot. In 2006, the voters approved changing our City Charter and our system of governance to a Council-Manager form of government, in which the Council hires, supervises and fires a professional full-time City Manager to run the affairs of the City. The City Manager, in turn, [...]
