Reflections on Imperial Avenue Elementary

Imperial Avenue Elementary of El Segundo has an interesting history. I believe that Quentin Tarantino went to that school before making bloody movies with explicit references to martial arts flicks. More importantly, it was the site for Imperial PAU (Principal...

Response to "Let E & B Drill"

When the city had the chance, Hermosa Beach should have let MacPherson Oil drill, drill, drill. Now, because of micromanaging local government and environmental fanaticism, liabilities and lawsuits may kill, kill, kill the finances and future of the beach city.In...

Rabbi Joshua Grater's Grating Moral Relativism

I am dismayed to read a Rabbi declare that the Word of God is the product of "both humans and God." Furthermore, I cannot stand it when religious authorities, like Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, challenge ultimate truth because it offends the political...

Public Smoking Ban Makes No Sense

Hermosa Beach Councilman Kit Bobko deserves to be elected again and again.Unlike the majority vote on the Hermosa Beach City Council, Mr. Bobko has acknowledged the outrageous cost in terms of time and expense that will overwhelm a city which is in danger of not...

The Trouble With Humiliating Anyone

In a recent Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal, Wendy Kopp attacked the New York Public School system's latest move to hold teachers accountable: publishing the value-added testing scores for their students.For the columnist, the underlying fault for publishing the...