Just a thought by Judith Martin-Straw

It’s not the direction that I was hoping to see things move, but when I notice a pattern, it’s impossible not to see where the pattern repeats.  When Daniel Lee won his seat on the …[READ MORE]

Way back in the 20th Century, I was hired to be the front desk receptionist for a small, newly minted environmental non-profit called Heal the Bay. I got this gig because someone I knew socially …[READ MORE]

For decades, it was understood that politics was about money; whoever spends the most wins. Getting your message out there was crucial to the mission, the more paper the better. Some compelling data is showing …[READ MORE]

There is, in the art of debate, a form known as the ‘”ad hominem fallacy.” When you note someone making a statement you don’t agree with, you attack the speaker personally, and not the policy …[READ MORE]

In regard to how the CCPD needs to follow the state law AB 481, the two questions that I keep coming back to are why? And how much? With hearings on gangs in the Los …[READ MORE]

It’s a multi-faceted holiday. At the first official Culver City celebration of Juneteenth at the downtown plaza, the speakers at the event had multiple names for it; Freedom Day, Kingdom Day, the End of Slavery. …[READ MORE]

With each mass murder, I am outraged by a very simple idea; anyone in this country can get a gun, and anyone can commit murder. We are ankle-deep in blood because it’s against the law …[READ MORE]

As a nation, we are on the brink of such darkness, it is almost unimaginable. There are people who – strangely, inexplicably – claim to value a potential human life above an actual human life. …[READ MORE]

With the first ‘live in council chambers’ meeting in years, a considerable amount of echo hindered the process. While there were actual legal discussions at the city council meeting on April 11, the business at …[READ MORE]

In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ and gave us the phrase ‘paradigm shift.’ It was soon everywhere; it migrated from science into pop culture. Any change in fashion, art, music or …[READ MORE]